Wea. [Weather] Sun. Dec. 9, 1906 [Sunday December 9, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
9 [degrees]
16 [degrees] 
  Cloudy with light snow. 
Bitterly cold but temperature rising
slowly all day.
  Spent forenoon in Museum
writing letters. C. [Caroline] read to me for an
hour after dinner, finishing "Coniston"
by Winston Churchill, a remarkable
story fully deserving the high reputation
it has achieved. Lizzy came
about 4 P.M. when I went again
to the Museum. Two Crows in the
lindens this morning. No other birds.
  Wea. [Weather] Monday 10 [December 10, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
9 [degrees]
32 [degrees]
  Cloudy & snowing sleeting or raining
nearly all day making about 2 weeks
of heavy damp snow.
  Spent day in museum. Cleared
out my desks going through  a
quantity of old letters & papers &
destroying many of them. No birds
(not even a House Sparrow), no callers.
Altogether a dreary & uninteresting day.
  Wea. [Weather] Tues. Dec.  11, 1906 [Tuesday December 11, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
20 [degrees]
  Cloudy & raw but not really
cold. About 2 inches of frozen snow
& sidewalks & streets a glare of ice.
  To Boston at 11 A.M. Did
some Christmas shopping. Called at
the office and met with the Committee
on Legislation of the Fish & G. Proc. Ass. [Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association]
in a room at Youngs Hotel at 5 P.M.
Present Kimball, Poland, Fay, Morse.
We discussed & voted on various changes
of the Game Laws to be tried for this 
winter. Got back to the Scudders' at 7 P.M.
  Wea. [Weather] Wednesday 12 [December 12, 1906] Ther. [Thermometer]
6 [degrees]  
20 [degrees]
  Spent forenoon in Museum reading
Chas. M. Carters journal (1867-1871)
and making extracts from passages,
relating to his shooting experiences in
and near Cambridge. He sent me this
journal a week or two ago. It is most
interesting to me and very well written.
  To Boston in P.M. to attend meeting
Aud. Soc. [Audubon Society] Directors at Mrs. Cabots.
Present - Mrs. Cabot, Mrs. Elliot, Mrs. Bolles,
Miss Richards, Miss Kimball, Messrs
Allen, Hoffman & Reginald Robbins - 9 of us in all.
[margin]1 Chickadee, 1 W. br. Nuthatch [white-breasted nuthatch], [female] Downy in Garden
1 Flicker Hubbard Park[/margin]