Cambridge
Wea. [Weather] Wed. [Wednesday] Nov. 18, 1908 [November 18, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & calm with light rain.
  Spent day at Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]. Chapman
gave two lantern slide talks in P.M. He
showed moving pictures of Brown Pelicans. 
The big Geol. lecture room was crowded.
Mr. Agassiz came to hear Chapman. We
reserved a good seat for him. Lunch was
served at Colonial Club. Dwight &
Purdie dined with us at 6.30. I gave
an evening reception in my Museum to
the male members of the Union. About 70
came & the building was crowded full. C. [Caroline Brewster] provided
a fine collation served in my study.

Wea. [Weather] Thursday 19 [November 19, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear, calm, mild.
A morning session of the Union closed
the present Congress. First Job & then
Finley showed a great number of beautiful
& wonderful slides of water birds.
They were better than anything Chapman
has ever shown. The Geol. lecture room
was nearly filled. We lunched at
Colonial Club & broke up an hour
afterwards. Henry & the ladies went to
Symphony concert at 8. C. [Caroline Brewster], E.R.S. [Elizabeth Simmons], Nelson
& I spent evening in Huggermugger
talking. Frank Chapman took afternoon train
for home.

Cambridge, Lancaster, Boston.
Wea. [Weather] Fri. [Friday] Nov. 20, 1908 [November 20, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Raining all last night but brilliantly clear to-day
with fresh W. [West] wind.
  Spent day at Lancaster, Mass. [Massachusetts] with the
A.O.U. [American Ornithologists Union] members about 80 in number.
About 20 of us went up by early (8.23) train.
John Thayer met us at station. We devoted
the forenoon to seeing the specimens in his
Museum, where the second installment of visitors
arrived at 11.30. The whole party reached his 
house at 1.50 where we had luncheon. We
all took 3.23 train back filling a special car.
It was a delightful & memorable occasion.
Nelson left us that evening. Nelson, Roberts, Miss
Chapman & Lizzy Myers left us at 9 P.M.

Wea. [Weather] Saturday 21 [November 21, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Calm & brilliantly clear. Early morning
frosty. Middle of day warm. Lawns
still green & ponds & rivers open.
  Henry Henshaw, Miss Myers & E.R.S. 
departed soon after breakfast. C. went
in to her Mayflower Club a little later.
& I to the Abbotsford about noon.
Called at our office at 3 P.M. & spent an
hour there. At 4.30 met C. at the
Bellevue where we had an interview with
Dr. Gehring. C. left him at 6. I dined with
him and went with him to South Station
where he took 8 P.M. train for Washington.