Wea. [Weather] Mon. [Monday] Aug. 27, 1906 [August 27, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Cloudy most of day with light shower.
Very sultry with strong moist S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Gilbert & I returned to Cambridge 
by 8.13 A.M. train. I spent the
day in my museum writing letters etc.
Mrs. Cobb dined & took tea with C. [Caroline] &
me on the back piazza.

Wea. [Weather] Tuesday 28 [August 28, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear with cool N.W. [northwest] wind.
  To Museum Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] at 10 A.M.
C. [Caroline] drove me down with Betty.
  I worked all day on the Bryant
birds Parshley helping me. Got
home at 6 P.M., very tired.

Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Aug. 29, 1906 [August 29, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warmer with fresh S.W. [southwest] wind.
  To Boston at 11 A.M. Spent
about an hour at our office, Called
on Dimick & Dr. Field, both of whom 
were out, got four tickets at Globe
Theatre for Friday matinee, & reached
Athletic Club at 4 P.M. dining there
at 6.30. Got home at 7.30. John H.
Hardy Jr. called at 8 P.M. & spent evening.
He brought a young White-fronted Goose killed
at Arlington, Mass. [Arlington, Massachusetts] which he gave me.

Wea. [Weather] Thursday 30 [August 30, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Clear & warmer still with light
southerly breezes.
  Spent day in house & Museum.
With Gilbert's help packed two portmanteaus
& put away my remaining summer things.
C. [Caroline] feels unable to run the house this
winter & we are closing it indefinitely.
Her favorite maid Ida is to be married
in October & she has no one on whom
she can rely for help in housekeeping.
Dr. Field called at 3 P.M. & stayed
two hours looking at birds.