Wea. [Weather] Tues. [Tuesday] Nov. [November] 7, 1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear at dinner but cloudy
most of the day.
  Spent day in Museum writing
letters etc. H.W. Henshaw &
E.H. Forbush spent most of P.M.
with me.
  C. [Caroline] went in Boston at 10 A.M.
to spend three or four days
at the Abbottsford. She is very
miserable & needs the change.

Wea. [Weather] Wednesday [November] 8 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy & rather mild.
  Spent A.M. in museum working on
a collection of [Labrador?] eggs received last
September, from Dr. Grenfell. They are
largely without date & the sets have not
been kept apart in all cases.
  To Boston at 3 P.M. Attended meeting 
Aud. [Audubon] Soc. [Society] Directors at Nat. Hist. [Natural History] rooms.
At 5.30 called on C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at the
Abbotsford. Attended meeting Am. [American] Academy
at Mr. Agassiz's 8-11 P.M. Mr. Agassiz
gave interesting talk on his last Albatross trip.
Prof. [Professor] Oswald spoke on "Esperanto"

Cambridge - Lancaster
Wea. [Weather] Thur.. [Thursday] Nov. 9 [November 9],1905 Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear with strong N.W. [northwest] wind. Cooler.
  Spent day in Museum. Worked
on Cambridge Birds in A.M.
Henry Henshaw with me in P.M.
  Went in town at 5 P.M. and
attended dinner of Mass. [Massachusetts] Fish & Game
Protection Ass. [Association] 6 to 10.30 P.M. About
thirty members present. I was called
upon to speak and did so on the
subject of wanton destruction of Herons
Kingfishers etc. Met Dr. De Merritt, a fine fellow

Wea. [Weather] Friday [November] 10, 1905  Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with strong N.W. [northwest] 
wind. Shallow ponds frozen over.
  Took 8.10 train at No.[North] Cambridge for
Lancaster. Henry Henshaw joined me
at Waltham. John Thayer met us at
South Lancaster & drove us to his
Museum. We spent an hour there & then
went to his house. He took me to the
Pheasantry where I saw about 200 birds in 
wire enclosures & a dozen or more free
wild birds in woods & fields. He & his 
brothers [have shot?] over 200 birds..
Lunched with the Thayers, Mrs. Endicott
Peabody. 8 for lunch. I took 3.45 train back
to Cambridge.