Irish Sea; Queenstown to Liverpool
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. [Wednesday] AUG. 4, 1909 [August 4, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Clear               
Cloudless with almost no haze.
Just pleasantly warm. Fresh S. [South] wind.
The musical clamor of Gulls
awakened me about 6 A.M. as
the ship was lying off Queenstown.
Looking out my port hole I saw
hundreds of Gulls flying & in the
water & 5 Manx Shearwaters skimming
past. We started on an an hour later.
The day turned out remarkably
fine & I spent nearly the whole
of it on deck. Sea of wonderful
deep emerald green & literally swarming
with birds. Hundreds of Gulls about 
ship, Murres, Puffins, Gannets,
Manx Shearwaters etc. flying & sitting
on water. One Curlew (arquatus)
Brown Butterfly came aboard.
Hundreds of Shearwaters in P.M.
Reached Liverpool about midnight.

Liverpool to Oxford.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] AUG. 5, 1909 [August 5, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
Sunny & warm
  Forenoon partly cloudy; afternoon very
clear for England & very warm, too.
  Landed at Liverpool at 8.00 A.M.
George Jefferson met me on float. Customs
office marked my trunk & portmanteau
without opening them but looked in my bag.
George & I took cab by hour. Drove
first to Cross's to look at African Turtles
for Mus. C. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]. Next to Adelphi Hotel
to call on Morrill Wyman. Next to
Liverpool Museum. Most interesting place.
  Crossed the Mersey by boat at [?]
& took 11.47 train for Oxford [?]
Looked out windows whole way. Delicious
dinner 2s6d [2 shillings 6 pence] in dining car. Oxford
at 4.25. C. [Caroline Brewster] met me at station.
We drove to 8 Banbury Road (lodgings),
After supper took long walk & were 
thrilled by beauty of the place.