Cambridge. Boston.
Wea. [Weather] WED. DEC.16, 1908 [Wednesday, December 16, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear, calm, mild. Sleighing spoiled
but lawns & gardens still encrusted thinly
 with icy snow.
  To Boston at 11.A.M. Stopping at
 Harvard Square to do some Christmas
 shopping. In Boston visited [Burkin's
 & Things?] Christmas card store. Then
 went to Athletic Club. Lunched & had 
 hair cut there.  Returned to Cambridge at
 4.30. To Roland Thaxter's for We Dine
 evening 7-10.30.  Fine time. Christmas gifts
 from Thaxter to all of us & gifts from one of
 us to him with [?] galore.
Wea. [Weather] THURSDAY 17 [Thursday, December 17, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cooler with light W. [west] wind.
Spent forenoon in Museum working
with Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert]. We inspected the main
part of the collection of eggs & nests in
the wooden cabinets on the ground floor
going over them carefully but finding no
traces of moths or museum pests.
  Sally Dearborn lunched with us at 1.
At 2.30 I went to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
where I saw Henshaw but spent most
of afternoon talking with Faxon in
his room. Called on Jackson also.
  C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read Egypt to me in evening. 
Wea. [Weather] FRI. DEC. 18, 1908 [Friday, December 18, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Cloudy & intensely chilly with light
snowfall (about one inch) in forenoon
and fine rain in afternoon.
  To Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] at 10.30 A.M.
Worked there three hours on the
Thaxter collection. There are about 200
skins mostly poor, with little or no data,
but some are valuable & fully [?] & among
them is a [male?] Prothonotory [Prothonotory warbler] taken on Maine
coast. Got back at 1.45 & spent P.M.
writing in my museum. Purdie dined &
spent evening. Saw a Blue Jay & heard Chickadees
in Garden. 2 Crows flew over it.

Wea. [Weather] SATURDAY 19 [Saturday, December 19, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear, calm, frosty.
  Spent day in Museum working
on a short article dealing  with
Mass. [Massachusetts] records of Barrow's Golden-eye [Barrow's Goldeneye].
I was suggested by the receipt yesterday
at Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] of an adult [male]
islandica shot at Eastham Mass. [Eastham, Massachusetts]
on Dec. 11, 1908 by Matthew Luer.
and mounted by Frazer.
  Saw 2 Chickadees & a [male] Downy [Downy woodpecker] in
the Garden this evening. No callers today.
 