Washington.
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] April 16, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
Clear.
Car. Wren [Carolina Wren], Tufted Tit, Cardinals
Robins, Thrushes, Field Sp. [Field Sparrow] & White thr. [white-throated sparrow] singing at sunrise.
Clear, calm, warm. Perfect day.
  To Dr. Allen's at 8.30 & again at 3.
He dealt with exposed nerves on both
occasions & I suffered extreme pain.
  To Smithsonian at 10. Spent next 2
hours in bird gallery smoking my pipe
& chatting with Stone & Richmond.
Osgood dropped in. Riley there, too.
Agricultural Dept. [Agricultural Department] grounds 12-2.40.
Called on Merriam, Fisher, Palmer,
Mrs. Morrison, & Dr. Howard. The last
named promises to make the Farm at
Concord headquarters for experiments with
parasites & wrote to Boston about it to-day.
Saw Emerson & Ernest Ingersoll yesterday
& to-day. Lunched in Agric. D. cafe [Agricultural Department cafe]
with Merriam, Henshaw & Nelson. Henry 
invited a lot of men to the Ontario this 
evening. Allen, Richmond, Palmer, Fisher,
Stone & [?] Emmons came. Fisher made
a Welsh rarebit. They left at 11.30.

Washington.
Ther. [Thermometer] Sat. [Saturday] April 17, 1909 Wea. [Weather]
84 [degrees] Clear.
Sunny & warm with southerly winds.
Robin, Tufted Tit, Car. Wren [Carolina Wren], Mniotilta,
Cardinals (2), Field Sp. [field sparrow], Song Sp. [song sparrow], White throats, 
Phoebee [phoebe] & Flicker singing at daybreak.
  To Dr. Allen's at 8.30. Little or no
pain this time. To Smithsonian at
10. Adjourned meeting of Committee,
present Allen, Merriam, Richmond, Stone,
W.B. [William Brewster]. We passed Ardea cand. Brewsteri [Ardea candidissima Brewsteri]
just described by Bangs & Thayer
& rejected Grinnell's Catalina Quail.
Lunched at Agric. Dept. [Agricultural Department] café with
Merriam, Richmond & Henshaw.
Called on Fisher & Mc.Ater. Saw
Gerritt Miller at Smithsonian.
Back to Dr. Allen's at 3.15. He
filled a tooth & sent me to another
dentist to have one extracted. Henry
& I spent evening talking.