London.
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] AUG. 14, 1909 [August 14, 1909] Wea. [Weather] 
Partly cloudy.
Forenoon cloudy; afternoon clear.
Warm, the evening oppressively sultry.
  Spent forenoon shopping buying a 
light tray trunk, a Kit bag, a collar box.
  To South Kensington by "Tube" at
3.30 P.M. The British Museum (Nat
Hist. [British Museum (Natural History)]) a much handsomer building
than our American Museum. All the
eminent zoologists gone when I got
there. (I missed Sharpe by only 10 minutes)
  Saw Mr. Chubb (Dr. Sharpe's assistant) &
talked with him an hour. He has a 
poor opinion of Selous (the Bird Watcher)
& knows no British ornithologist who 
considers his observations reliable.
I spent another hour looking at exhibition
collections. Birds not much changed since
I saw them in 1891. Very creditable display
but mounting old fashioned as a rule.
I called at Rowland Ward's again this noon.
His work is superb birds & mammals equally so.
Got very tired to day.

London.
Ther. [Thermometer] SUN. [Sunday] AUG. 15, 1909 [August 15, 1909] Wea. [Weather]
84 [degrees] max [maximum] Fine
Clear, intensely warm & sultry.
Light southerly breeze.
  Spent day in hotel being
rather used up by the incessant
walking about for the past week
& by the unremitting heat. For
the past six nights I have slept 
under no covering but a sheet.
  I read & wrote letters & had
a long nap, today. In the 
evening C. [Caroline Brewster] Miss Allyn & I took
a short walk.
  Early this morning I heard what
I took to be a Carrion Crow cawing
hoarsely. There are only a few
Sparrows in this part of the city
Their notes throughout England are
similar in form to those of our birds
but sweeter & mellower in tone.