Cambridge - Boston.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. Feb. 25, 1909 [Thursday, February 25, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Cool.   Clear.
   A March-like day with violent
N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Went to Harvard Sq. [Harvard Square] on an errand
for C. [Caroline] just after breakfast. Bought copy
of new Gray's Manual at Harvard Co-op. 
Wrote letters & cheques in Museum
until 12.30 when I went to Boston.
to lunch with C. at Harry & May's [Harry & May Cunninghams'.]
They have a new graphophone, the 
best I ever heard. Bought a rose
bush in bloom for C. [Caroline] at the flower
store where I left the car.
  Charles River wholly free from ice. 
5 or 6 Whistlers near Harvard Bridge.
Townsend [Dr. C. W. Townsend] & Jeffries saw at least 150
there on 22nd [February 22nd]. Got home at 3 &
wrote letters until 6.30.
  Heard Blue Jays in Garden & saw
a single Redpoll flying across it.

 Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. Feb. 26, 1909 [Friday, February 26, 1909]   Wea. [Weather]
16º [16 degrees]                                                                                  Windy, clear.
  Spent day in Museum.
  In forenoon wrote note for "Auk"
about La. Water Thrush [Louisiana Waterthrush] breeding in 
Berkshire Co., Mass. [Berkshire County, Massachusetts]. Finished &
copied it before 1 P.M.
  Miss Helene Belmont, an actress,
whom C. met in New York last spring, 
lunched with us - a big, handsome girl.
  At 3.30 P.M. Dean Hodges called
on me (at C.'s request) to talk over
my baptism which was omitted in
my youth but which he has agreed
to perform a week from next Sunday.
We had a long talk, chiefly about
religion. He is amazingly broad & I 
liked everything he said.
  Spent evening alone reading & looking
over photos. C. & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to their Bee.
No birds of any kind noted to-day