Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] Feb. 4, 1905 [February 4, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer] 
0 [degrees] 
16 [degrees]
  Clear, cold, calm
  Working all day on Cambridge Birds
C. [Caroline] did not go out. Miss Henders returned
to St. Margarets last night but she will
come back to us to-morrow.
Mr. Gremslet was my only caller. He
came just after lunch to say that he
will take a five years lease of the
Paton house from March 1.
C. [Caroline] read Trollops "Dr. Thorne" [Doctor Thorne] to me
that evening.
Wea. [Weather] SUNDAY 5 [February 5, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
1 [degree]
24 [degrees]
  Clear, Cold, Calm.              
  Called on Sam Henshaw after
Breakfast. Returned to Museum
& wrote letters until 1.30.
After dinner went in town,
met George Fairnsworth by appointment
at Athletic Club & with him called
on Frank Manning. Stayed an hour
& then came home. Will & Alice
Stone called to consult me about
a book plate that Alice is to design
for C. [Caroline] for my library.
  Wea. [Weather] MON. [Monday] FEB. 6, 1905 [February 6, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
32 [degrees]
  Light snow-fall (about 4 inches)
with N.E. [northeast] wind
  Spent day in Museum working
on the Cambridge Birds. I am
revising the main body of the text
again & I find very many passages
that require examination & a few
that have to be rewritten although
I have read them all virtually a dozen
times or more. Big Nuttall meeting this
morning. 23 members. Papers by
Townsend & Clark hotly discussed.
  Wea. [Weather] TUESDAY 7 [February 7, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer] 
  Cloudy with light flurries
of snow, colder.
  Spent day in Museum revising
text of Cambridge Birds.
No callers, no birds in Garden.
C. [Caroline] confined to her room still.
Harry Cunningham writes me that
I am certainly not descended
from Elder William Brewster.
Frank M. Chapman arrived at 6 P.M.
to spend the night. We talked in the 
den all the evening.