Cambridge - Boston.
Wea. [Weather] SUN. DEC. 20, 1908 [Sunday, December 20, 1908]  Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear & cool with light W. [west] wind.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters. Mr. Saml. C. Palmer [Mr. Samuel C. Palmer], a
special student at Harvard, called at 10 A.M.
to tell me of a Bald Eagle [?] he had just
seen in Camb. Cemetery [Cambridge Cemetery]. He wished me to
return with him in hope of finding it there
but my cough is still bad & I did not care
to wade across country through the snow.
Dorothy Carter (my old friend Charlie's 
daughter) & Miss Allyn dined with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons], C. [Caroline] 
& me at 1.30. A Blue Jay, a Chickadee &
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] seen in Garden.

Wea. [Weather] MONDAY 21 [Monday, December 21, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Clear, calm, just agreeably cool.
  Spent forenoon in Museum working
on Barrow's Golden-eye article for Auk
and preparing Christmas gifts. No
callers. To Boston at 2 P.M. to select
a lot of plants in flower store under
the Kensington. Back again before
dark. Purdie arrived at 5.30 to dine
with us. We attended Nuttall Club
meeting later. Townsend reread a 
paper on "Position of birds' feet in
flight." A dozen or more members 
present.
Cambridge.
Wea. [Weather] TUES. DEC. 22, 1908 [Tuesday, December 22, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Partly cloudy, calm, slightly cooler.
  A broken day spent partly in
Museum writing. At 11 A.M. went
with C. to Miss Thompson's school
to Christmas exercises by the 
children.They were very pretty &
touching. Saw many of our friends &
neighbors there. Miss Upton lunched
with us again. She is still helping
C. about Christmas things. No birds to-day.
At 8 P.M. Miss Thompson & a dozen or more
of her school children marched up our driveway
& serenaded us singing thrice in all. The sweet young
voices joining in the Christmas carols & rising in the still
winter night were most pleasing.
Wea. [Weather] WEDNESDAY 23 [Wednesday, December 23 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
Forenoon cloudy & intensely chilly with
a few snow flakes falling now & then. Afternoon
clear with much lower temperature than we
have had of late.
  Spent day in Museum working on
Barrow's Golden eye article. No callers, no
birds. C. went to Forest Hills to put
wreaths on the family graves & Gilbert to
Concord with Christmas presents for the
Bensen, James & Flannery families.


