Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Feb. 15,  1911 [February 15,  1911] Wea. [Weather]
5 [degrees], 16 [degrees] Fine
Clear & cold with light n. [north] wind.
a Chickadee, 1 Blue Jay & 3 Crows
in the Garden.
 Spent forenoon in Museum
writing a few letters & a page or two
of journal notes beside one more 
page on the Gooseander [Goosander].
  Went in town at 3.30 P.M.
to Council Meeting of Boston 
Society. Saw there Kidder, Daley, 
Bowditch, Batchelder, Townsend & 
others. Harry Bigelow had a lot to 
say & said it well as a rule.
Home by 6, dressed & went to a
"We Dine" at Thaxters. Twelve of
us there, the full number. Talked
chiefly with Jeffries, Townsend &
Bent. Walter & I rode home
together. 

Cambridge 
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] Feb. 16, 1911 [February 16, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
0 [degrees], 34 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with little or
no wind. Very cold last night.
  Heard a Blue Jay in Garden;
also a Flicker, the only one noted 
here since January 17.
  Spent day in Museum
devoting myself to my usual
task. Worked on Gooseander [Goosander]
article adding three pages
of fresh MS. [manuscript] to it. The
matter was taken from my 
journals and note books but
largely rewritten. C. [Caroline Brewster] & E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read aloud to me in the
evening from Trollope's 
Ralph the Heir."
  Bulbs coming on fast now. We
have tulips, hyacinths, Roman [hyacinths]
jonquils, crocuses etc in bloom.