Cambridge, Boston.
Wea. [Weather] TUES. [Tuesday] NOV. 10, 1908 [November 10, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy, calm, mild but chilly. Foggy
in early morning. 
  Spent day in Museum & Garden. 
Patsy with 4 men still at work about 
the place. James came down from Concord
with load of birch wood. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] & Henry
cleaned up the Museum cellar.
In late P.M. I called at Batchelders with
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] Mrs. B. engaged. Went
to Harvard Square & had hair cut.
Two White-thr. Sparrows [white-throated sparrow] & a Golden crest
in Garden. Saw nothing else there. 

Wea. [Weather] WEDNESDAY 11 [November 11, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy & misty with an occasional
sprinkle of fine rain. Calm & mild.
1 Chickadee only bird noted in Garden.
  Spent forenoon in Museum writing
letters. Glover Allen here all forenoon
looking up references. Patsy & 3 men
digging hole for hot beds, Billcliff & our
man replacing front steps of house,
the painters still working on house.
To Boston at 3.30 to attend meeting of
Audubon Soc. [Audubon Society] Directors at Bos. Soc. N.H. [ Boston Society of Natural History]
Present Dr. Field, Allen, Hoffman, Mrs. Elliot,
Mrs. Bolles, Miss Richards, Miss Kimball.
  Got home at 6 P.M. Margie & Walter D. [Walter Deane] called. 

Cambridge - Boston.
Wea. [Weather] THUR. [Thursday] NOV. 12, 1908 [November 12, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with high N.W. [Northwest] wind.
  Spent day in Museum working
with Gilbert & Henry, rearranging
things & "tidying up" for the
coming A.O.U. visitors. Patsy had
two men at work about the place
& Billcliffe over on the house where a
swarm of painters were engaged. 
  Saw two Red Crossbills flying low over
the Garden & a flock of about a dozen
Goldfinches in our birches. There were 2
Chickadees also, one of which flew against
my study window injuring itself badly I fear.

Wea. [Weather] FRIDAY 13 [November 13, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with light W. [West] wind.
Spent forenoon in Museum where
Billcliffe & Gilbert were at work
preparing for the ornithologists.
  Patsey & two men finished with garden.
I went in town at noon, lunched
at "Bunch O' Grapes", spent two hours
in our office, went to Safety Vaults
with Mackintire to deposit Mass. bonds
& Cambridge Gas stock, bought cigars
& cigarettes at Peirce's & got home at 4.30.
  Heard 2 Peabody Birds calling in
Garden at evening.