Cambridge - Boston.
Wea. [Weather] TUES. DEC. 8, 1908 [Tuesday, December 8, 1908]  Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent day in Museum working most
of forenoon on the infested bird nests.
Many are ruined & among them are
some of my choicest things. Bay-breast
Warblers [Bay-breasted Warblers], Canada Jays etc. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] says
Walter ordered him to cease bi sulphiding
these cans four or five years ago because
he found the bisulphide would injure the eggs.
  James drove the new horse down today
& left him at Irving's for the winter. 
John Nichols spent evening with us. I called 
on Mrs. Frank Bolles at noon to-day. 
Wea. [Weather] WEDNESDAY 9 [Wednesday, December 9, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy & chilly. Ground hard frozen
Little or no wind.
  Gilbert went to Concord to finish
painting cabin roofs & to photograph
horse Charley. I spent forenoon in
Museum writing letters. To Boston at
3.30 to attend meeting Directors Aud Soc. [Audubon Society]
at Mrs. Cabot's. Nearly all of them
there. Hoffmann elected chairman.
  Came out in carriage with Mrs.
Prof. Putnam after driving her husband 
& Edna Morse to Boylston Street. C.[Caroline] &
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read [?] Egypt in evening.
[margin]A Flicker & 2 Chickadees in Garden[/margin]
Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] THUR. DEC. 10 [Thursday, December 10, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Brilliantly clear & crisply cold with
light W. [west] wind. Ground hard frozen.
  Spent day in Museum. Worked
all forenoon on short article about
Otters in E. Mass. [Eastern Massachusetts] which I have decided
to write for Science in which (issue of
Nov.27) has just appeared some records
of recent occurrences of these animals in
Connecticut River. In afternoon worked
in gallery on the moth-eaten nests.
  Birds excessively scarce here. Saw only one
- a Flicker - in Garden to-day.
Wea. [Weather] FRIDAY 11 [Friday, December 11, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Snow storm (the first for this winter)
beginning at 10 a.m. & lasting all day
about 2 inches falling.
  Spent day in Museum working
on article about Otters for Science.
  C.[Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went in town at noon
for Christmas shopping & to see a 
famous professional dancer this evening.
  Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] went to Concord by a
morning train to superintend the
cutting of more pines for our Corrals.
Heard a Crow this morning but did
not see a single bird all day except
House Sparrows of course.
