Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] July 26, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with cool E. [east] wind.
Three more galleys of proof came from
the printers last evening & Walter & I 
worked on them all day.
C. [Caroline] went to the Scudder's with me 
to dinner & supper. Late in P.M.
I took E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] to the Botanic Garden.
The Song Sparrow still there & still in
full song.

Wea. [Weather] Sunday 27 [July 27, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy and cool with light rain in P.M.
Wind East.
  Gilbert & I started for Concord at 9.30 A.M.
going by electrics & reaching the cabin at 10.30.
  Went to farm just after dinner & found
Hansen asleep on floor in Bungalow.
He had been drinking & was hard to rouse
  I spent about 2 hours transplanting &
weeding & then returned to cabin in
the rain.
  Walked to Pine Ridge after supper.
  Planted lupin seeds in two places there
& in two in Birch Field.

Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] July 28, 1902 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Sunny (but rather hazy) most of day.
Sultry with light S.W. [SouthWest] wind.
  I lost my usual morning train by waiting for
Hansen who came late evidently in the hope 
of dodging me. Had a long talk with him. He
promised to reform & I shall keep him.
Took electrics to Cambridge reaching museum at 11.30.
In late P.M. C. [Caroline] & I went to Payson Park where
we saw a Sparrow Hawk & 30 Swifts & heard a
Meadow Lark singing, a Quail whistling bob - white
& an Indigo bird chirping. Also saw a Blue Jay.
[margin]First Cicadas (2) today[/margin]

Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 29 [July 29, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A.M. sunny but hazy; P.M. cloudy
with showers at evening. A sultry, humid
day.
  Spent A.M. working on Lower Cala. [Lower California]
proof. Also devoted about an hour
to revising M.S. [manuscript] of Cambridge Birds.
C. [Caroline] & I walked to Fresh Pond in
P.M. taking Larry. Saw a Sparrow Hawk
pursued by a King Bird [Kingbird] fly over Brattle St.
just this side of Elmwood & a Kingfisher
perched on the rail fence at the Pond.
A Song Sparrow braying at Kingsley Park &
a Blackbird in the fields opposite.
[margin]First Acanthus [Oecanthus] nivaeus this season[/margin]