Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] JAN. 26, 1911 [January 26, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
 Cloudy & chilly but not cold.
Snowing for an hour or so just
after dark.
  No birds of any kind seen
or heard about the place.
  Spent day in Museum
working on Umbagog Birds.
The article on the Loon still
absorbs my attention. It
advanced well to-day. I
had luncheon alone for C. [Caroline Brewster] was 
in town. We dined together
in the morning room this
evening. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at Springfield.
She went there yesterday.
  Sent nearly all my Clapper
Rails to Ridgeway today. He
has come to the genus Rallus
in writing his Birds of North
& Middle Am. [The Birds of North and Middle America]. Also sent
[margin]yesterday one of my three spec. [specimens] of Glaucidium hoskinsii to Gurney
as gift to Norwich (Eng) Museum[/margin]

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] JAN. 27, 1911 [January 27, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Stormy.
A dark, dismal, dreary day
with fine rain falling almost
ceaselessly.
  No birds.
  Spent day in Museum
working on the Loon article
and adding three or four 
pages of fresh M.S. to it.
C. [Caroline Brewster] copied it on the type writer
and finally got it all just
before we came into lunch
but I added more after that.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from
Springfield this forenoon. She
& C. went to their Bee this eve. 
I called at the Russells where
I saw Mr. & Mrs. Joe and 
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Windsor.
Joe gave me a pair of Bald Pates [Baldpates]
from Currituck.