Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] May 31, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
62 [degrees] max. [maximum]
  Clear & cool with fresh E. [east] wind. 
  Took 7.30 A.M. train to Cambridge.
Went first to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] where I
saw Woodworth, Henshaw & some 400
Bornean skins just received in exch. [exchange]
from Dr. Finsch of Leiden.
  Walked thence to our place. Dined
with Walter, corrected first batch of proofs
of Lower Cala. [Lower California] paper, set out Rhexia. Wood 
Thrush singing in the Garden. To Concord
in late P.M. meeting Roland on the train.
 
  Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] June 1 [June 1, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer] 
  Brilliantly clear & warmer with fresh
S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Roland & I went to farm in A.M.
via Davis's Hill & Birch Id. [Birch Island] returning
at noon via Birch Field & Davis Swamp.
Met Joe Warner & his son at the farm.
Also talked with two ladies who were
looking at the Swift farm - very agreeable
people.
  Roland went back to Boston by 4.10
P.M. train. I walked around Ball's Hill
afterwards. Fresh deer tracks within 20 yards
of cabin at canoe punt. New bird cry in
meadows last night & this morn. [morning] & P.M.

  Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] June 2, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & hot with strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
  At 8.30 took electric car to Concord.
where I met C. [Caroline] at 9 A.M., Walter & Margie
Deane at 9.47, Mr. & Mrs. John E. Thayer
at 10.05. I took the Thayers down river
in the big boat, C. [Caroline] drove the others in a [?].
We all called at the Manse & saw Miss Ames.
We dined at cabin Mrs. Emmerson joining us there.
At 2.30 P.M. we started for farm, all walking.
All drove back to Concord whence C. [Caroline] & I went
to Lancaster by electric cars.
  
  Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 3 [June 3, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & hot with short, sharp thunder 
shower at 4 P.M.
  Off with John Thayer & Harriman for
the day. Spent A.M. in the old pine
woods looking for Blackburnians' nests.
Birds plenty but we found nothing
save a half finished Red-eye's nest.
Devoted P.M. to searching for Henslow's
Sparrows' nests at Pansy Farm. Heard
4 males singing & flushed several birds
but found no nests of any kind.
Drove into farm to escape shower. Took 2 young
Flying Squirrels from nest in white pine.