Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] July 10, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
93 [degrees] max.
Clear and intensely hot. Wind inst.
Thunder showers at evening
  Forbush came up at 9 a.m. and 
worked the rest of the day (Gilbert 
helping him part of of the time) reputtying 
the glass in the farmhouse windows. 
James &Frank were haying. I
worked at various small tasks pruning
the blackberries for one thing. We
had the last strawberries & the first
thimbleberries to-day. Gilbert & I drove 
to Concord in P.M. & took 4.20 train
to Cambridge.
  Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 11 [July 10, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & hot. Thunder showers
in late P. M. 
  Spent most of day in museum
writing letters etc. Frost the 
Gypsy moth expert called in late
P.M. To inspect our lindens.
Most of them on badly eaten
and two are almost completely
stripped. He will send men to-morrow 
to fight the gypsy caterpillars
& elm leaf beetles which are also 
doing much damage. 
  Cambridge
  Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] July 12, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer] 
90 [degrees] 
  Clear and hot with W. [west] wind
  Spent day in museum writing 
a few letters and reading a good deal.
Mr. Leverett took tea with us & spent
the evening.
  Frosts' man sprayed the elm
in the driveway and all the elms
along Brattle & Sparks Strs. in our grounds
most of these trees are infested with 
elm leaf beetles. One man worked
all day killing gypsy caterpillars in [?] [?] 
my Shama Thrush arrived from New York
  Wea. [Weather] Thursday 13 [July 13, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
92 [degrees] 
  Clear and hot with strong N. [north] wind
Thunder shower at 4 P.M.
  Spent most of day in Museum 
Roland Hayward called at 
9 A.M. & Ernest Thompson Seton
about 10 A.M. The latter stayed
until 12.15. I had a delightful
talk with him. 
  I have feared the spraying of our
elms would kill the birds but I heard
the usual ones this morning - a Redstart
Yellow Warbler, Red eye [red-eyed vireo], Warbling & Yellow
throated vireo, Chippy & many Robins