Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] FEB. 9, 1911 [February 9, 1911] Wea. [Weather] 
Dull.
Cloudy, calm, mild.
  No birds.
Spent day in Museum working
on Umbagog task. Finished
Bonaparte's Gull, wrote 3 pp. on
Wilson's Tern and began a page
on Arctic Tern. Had a beastly
headache in P.M. but stuck
to my work all the same.
Came in at 6 and lay down 
for an hour. Will & Alice Stone
and Lizzy Fuller dined with us
at 7 & spent evening. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
had been in town most of day
and at Castle Sq. Theatre [Castle Square Theater] in P.M. 
It was the anniversary of my
wedding day. C. gave me a ten 
dollar gold piece & a beautiful [?]
I gave her a folding mahogany
table for use in the hall.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] FEB. 10, 1911 [February 10, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & mild with light
flurries of snow.
  Crows cawing at sunrise.
No other birds about the place.
Never before have I known
a winter so utterly birdless here.
  Spent day in Museum working
on Arctic Tern article & finishing
it. Also revised some previous
M.S. Morrill Wyman called
about 3 P.M. bringing a book
to show me. It was a life of
Treadwell written by Dr. Wyman
& containing a passage relating to
Robins & their food. 
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] taken ill with grip last
night. Her brother Will called to
see her this morning. Miss Henders
came out to nurse her this forenoon
C. [Caroline Brewster] worked in Museum [this forenoon]
& read to me this evening.