Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAR. 3, 1909 [Wednesday, March 3, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
28  max.[28 degrees maximum]                                                                            Cloudy.
Raw, dismal day with piercing N.E. [northeast] wind.
  Spent entire day in Museum
cataloging and labeling birds that
have been accumulating for past year
or two. Among them were four skins 
that Chas. J. Paine [Charles J. Paine] gave me last
Monday evening viz. a Leach's Petrel
taken in Sudbury River at Wayland,
a [female] King Eider from Dare Co., N.C. [Dare County, North Carolina]
and a Killdeer & a Ring-bill (?) Gull
shot at Chatham. There was also
4 Bohemian Waxwings & a [female] Spruce
Partridge received this morning from
A. Scott Dawson of Picton. He thought
the Grouse a hybrid but I see nothing
peculiar about & shall return it. 
  We put in 30 tons of furnace & 10 tons
of range coal today. C.[Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read
aloud in hall from Cromer & Peter this
evening. No birds noted today.
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. MAR. 4, 1909 [Thursday, March 4, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Warmer                                                                                                    Cloudy
Snow fell last night & this morning
to depth of about 2 inches. Some of
it still remains on the grounds & trees.
but most of it has melted. The
day was warmer than yesterday 
but yet chilly & cheerless. 
  I spent it in the Museum
working up the notes made
last Saturday on the courting
performances of Golden-eyes [Goldeneyes]
in Back Bay Basin. These
I am describing with as much 
care as if the matter were to be
published at once but it will
go into my journal for the present.
  Will & Alice Stone & Will's 
daughter Mary dined with us at
6.30. They left at 7 & we read aloud.
Heard Blue Jays in Garden this morn.