Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] April 25, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear and Warm.
  Committee in session from 10.30
 A.M. to 1 P.M. when we adjourned
sine diae [sine die] having dealt with 99
cases out of the 130 on the list.
Merriam ill with bronchitis.
Called at Warmbath's at 3 P.M. &
bought a lot of Gulls etc from his
arctic collection about $100 in all.
Spent the evening at the Museum
with Henry and Palmer.
  Wea. [Weather] WEDNESDAY 26 [April 26, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy.
  Left Washington at 10 A.M. &
reached New York at 3 P.M. Went
to Am. Museum [American Museum of Natural History] where Chapman 
showed me the recently finished Flamingo
& San Joachim Valley cases as well
as some wonderful fossil skeletons.
We went out to Englewood for
the night. Mr. and Mrs. Miller 
called at 8 P.M. Chapman showed
me his fine Flamingo & Pelican
skins. Sat up until 11.45.
  Wea. [Weather] THUR. [Thursday] 27 [April 27, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  A.M. cloudy & rainy. P.M. clear.
  Took 10 A.M. train for Boston
which I reached at 3 P.M. Found
C. [Caroline] at home & well. Vegetation rather
backward but a few cherry & apricot
blossoms out in our garden. Two
Hermits there.
  Townsend's Essex Co. Birds [The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts] out.
  Wea. [Weather] Friday 28 [April 28, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy with chill N. E. [northeast] wind
  Spent day in Museum adding 
a few last notes to Cambridge Birds
Will and Alice Stone lunched with
us. Batchy and his wife called in 
P.M.
  Heard the trilling of Chimney 
Swifts at evening. Robins singing
gloriously. Blood root [bloodroot], Claytonia,
& hustonia [houstonia] in bloom!