Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Jan. 18, 1909 [January 18, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
12 [degrees] - 16 [degrees] - 4 [degrees]
Clear & cold with fresh W. [West] wind.
  Heard this morning that
Dr. Coolidge was seriously ill & went
at once to see Walter who told me
he has pneumonia, which developed 
last Saturday.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Otter article. No callers until
5.30 when Purdie [Henry A. Purdie] came to dine
with us at 7. We attended meeting
of Nuttall Club in Museum. About
15 members present. Glover Allen
read interesting paper on seed
planting by birds. It was followed 
by long discussion of the subject.
The field record notes by various
members very interesting.
  A Crow & 2 Chickadees in the Garden.
Geo. Deane reports 2 Robins at his place
almost daily for weeks past.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Tues. [Tuesday] Jan. [January] 19, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
-2 [degrees] + 20 [degrees]
Cloudy & cold with light N.E. [Northeast] wind.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Otter article & making
but little progress. No callers.
News came from Walter to effect
that Dr. Coolidge had reasonably
comfortable night & is holding
his own.
  Miss Alice Allyn came this
afternoon to make us a visit
of a week or so. She, Lizzy
& I sat in the hall through evening,
Lizzy reading aloud from Cromer's
Egypt & from "The Irish R. M."
  Two Blue Jays spent an hour or
more in the Garden this forenoon,
screaming loudly at times. There was
a Crow with them for a while. I
saw no other birds to-day.