Wea. [Weather] Sun. [Sunday] Dec. 21, 1902 [December 21, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
23 [degrees]
38 [degrees]
Cloudy with drizzling rain                                                   
through the day & a heavy downpour
in the evening & through the following night.
  C. [Caroline] & I attended morning service at St. Johns
at 8.30. Afterwards she went to the
Thayers' & I walked to Elmwood with
"Larry". Spent most of A.M. writing letters.
Roland & the Cunninghams dined with us
at 1.30, Sam Henshaw called early in P.M. 
& Purdie spent the evening.
Wea. [Weather] Monday 22 [December 22, 1902] Ther.[Thermometer]
53 [degrees]
40 [degrees]                                                                         
Clear, calm, mild. Practically                            
all the snow gone this morning & the
grass everywhere green. Roads muddy &
ground apparently free from frost.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Cambridge Birds. Walked to Coolidge's
green house just after dinner. Gulls
drifting over towards Fresh Pond.
A Flicker in the Garden.
Council of N.O.C. [Nuttall Ornithological Club] met at Museum this
evening to consider publishing my Camb. Birds [Cambridge Birds]
Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] Dec. 23, 1902 [December 23, 1902] Ther.[Thermometer]
28 [degrees]
30 [degrees]                                                                                              
Clear & cooler with strong                                                      
N.W. [northwest] wind. Ground frozen stiff.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Cambridge Birds. Walked to Coolidge's 
green house just after dinner to order 
some flowers for Christmas.
  Judge Churchill called at Museum at 5
P.M. bringing a live Buteo lineatus [male adult]
which was caught by a policeman in Dorchester.
2 Chickadees, a Nuthatch & a Golden crest
in the Garden. 
Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 24 [December 24, 1902] Ther. [Thermometer]
13 [degrees]
Clear, calm, cold.
  Spent day in Museum working
on "Cambridge Birds". No callers.
A Crow alighted in the Garden
& a Flicker spent some time there
in the early morning.