Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Sun. [Sunday] Feb. 7, 1909 [February 7, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
 Cloudy & chilly with light W. [West] wind.
  To St. Johns with Emmie
Kettell at 10.45. Dean Hodges
preached a good sermon.
We walked back with Miss Allyn
& her nephew whom we met
in front of the church. C. [Caroline] has
been miserable for several 
days & still keeps to the morning
room. She had Dr. Driver to day.
  I wrote letters in Museum
all the afternoon. No birds
seen about the place to-day.
C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud this
evening. We sat in morning room.
Emmie & Minna Kettell were in
town at on oratorio.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Mon. [Monday] Feb. 8, 1909 [February 8, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
24 [degrees] 38 [degrees]
 Clear & cool with light W. [West] wind.
  Spent day in Museum
working on articles just written
and starting some fresh notes for
Auk. In afternoon skinned
Brunnich's Murre received from
Aldana Brooks last Saturday.
It is the first bird I have
handled in this way for a long
time but i did it quickly
& made a good skin.
  The Ipswich Sparrow taken in
Cambridgeport several years ago by
Dr. A.M. Tuttle was left at the
house for me this noon. He told me
last Nov. [November] he intended giving me this bird.
Crows cawing in lindens at
sunrise. A Flicker seen & a
Chickadee and Redpolls heard in
the Garden during forenoon.