Cambridge -Boston.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. Mar. 5, 1909 [Friday, March 5, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
26º [26 degrees]                                                                                            Clear
A cool day with strong N.W. [northwest] wind.
  To Boston at 10 A.M. to
attend hearing at State House on 
bill to close open season for water fowl
on January instead of March 1.
Forbush was presenting it when I 
arrived. I spoke a little later, 
for perhaps two minutes. Room
filled with people many ladies
among them Mrs. Arthur Cabot & 
Mrs. Bridges. Mackay, Poland &
Dr. Field there & Purdie of course.
I left at 12 and when [went] to our
office where I stayed until 3 when
I called at Frazer's but he was out.
  Dined at Athletic Club at 6.30.
Botanical Club meeting at 8. About
30 members present. Prof. [Professor] Geoffrey gave
us a fine talk on the botany of coal.
[margin] Saw [female] Eve. [Evening] Grosbeak killed by Frazer at Townsend.[/margin]
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. Mar. 6, 1909 [Saturday, March 6, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
26º [26 degrees]                                                                             Clear
Brilliantly clear with calm, frosty 
air.
  Spent day in Museum. In A.M.
read proof of Black Duck article.
  In P.M. worked on recent field
notes of Golden-eyes copying a lot
of them into my journal. Called 
on R.H. Dana at 6 P.M. to ask him
to stand up with me at St. Johns
to-morrow. We talked for half an hour
in his study. Lizzy Fuller came over
at 8 P.M. She with C. [Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] spent
evening in Museum where I showed
them about 100 lantern slides that
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] has just made.
  The spring does not seem to advance
much. Everything frozen tight to-night.
4 Blue Jays [in a flock] in our lilacs this
morning.
