Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Feb. 19, 1909 [February 19, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Very mild. (raining hard at 10 P.M.) Cloudy
  Spent day in Museum writing
It goes much better of late.
To-day I composed three short
articles or rather notes; one on
Whimbrell [Whimbrel] in my collection taken
near Sable Id., Nova Scotia [Sable Island, Nova Scotia], in 1906;
another on Viola Brittoniana at
Concord; the third on the Skunk
Cabbage that grows on Balls Hill in
a hole at the base of an oak.
  A Boston Post reporter called in 
P.M. to pump me about Cat Id., La [Cat Island, Louisiana]
I could tell him but little. He brought
as assistant to photograph me, who snapped
me twice in front of Museum. All this
is for a bird protection article in
the Post for next Sunday.
  Dined at Riverbank at 8 with about 50
members Boston Brewster Club - Sat
with Judge Bell. Capital dinner @ 1.50.
Saw Molly & Swift Lord there.

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] Feb. 20, 1909 [February 20, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Cooler. Forenoon cloudy, afternoon clear.
  Spent day in Museum writing.
Made another copy - the final one -
of the Black Duck article and
mailed it to Allen for the Auk
this evening. I began it late in
December and must have spent
in all fully three or four weeks
on it working six or eight hours
a day. Yet it will make when
printed only some four or five
pages! No callers.
  Walter & Harry & Amy Spelman
dined with us at 7. At 8.15
we all went to the Museum
where I showed them about
60 lantern slides mostly Bethel
views taken in winter.
  A Flicker seen & a Crow heard
in the Garden.