Wea. [Weather] Sat. [Saturday] July 22, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear and cool with light E. [East] wind. 
  Spent most of morning in 
museum. Roland Hayward called 
at 9 A.M. To the Square at 
11 A.M. To see Mc.Nann &
Wheeler. At that latter's got a
full set of Introduction Cam. Birds [Cambridge Birds]
which had just been printed. 
Took 5.01 train to West Bedford. 
Crossed river & walked to farm. 
Cool & pleasant. Deer flies & mosquitos
terrific. Never saw them worse.
Wea. [Weather] Sunday 23 [July 23, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy most of day with light
rain in early morning. Wind E. [east]
  Spent A.M. on farm weeding
wild flower beds etc. 9 P.M. 
weeded bed in Birch Field.
Raymond & Ellen Emerson 
found me there. I went
with them to the cabin 
where they had left their canoe. 
Walked back, via Holden's Hill - 
Deer flies simply ferocious.
Wea. [Weather] Mon. [ Monday] July 24, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer] 
Cloudy & cool with light E. [east] wind.
  Drove to Concord this morning and
took 8.06 train to Cambridge. Called
at out house, saw C. [Caroline], changed my 
clothes & went in town to see Frank
Manning whose mother died last 
Friday. Called at office & saw [?]
Lunched at Athletic Club. Met C. [Caroline] at 
Abbottsford at 3.45 & with her attended
Mrs. Manning's funeral at 4 P.M. 
Charlie & Mary Greenough there. C. [Caroline] read
to me in the evening.
Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 25 [July 25, 1905] Ther. [Thermometer] 
Clear & rather warm with W. [west] wind. 
  Spent most of day in Museum 
writing letters etc. Almy & Henshaw 
breakfasted with me on the piazza. 
C. [Caroline] & I went to Botanic Garden
after dinner. It looked rather forlorn
& neglected we thought.  They have
been spraying all the trees & shrubbery
with arsenate of lead & I neither saw
nor heard a single native bird there