Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. MAY 2, 1911 [Tuesday, May 2, 1911] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear and cooler with fresh N.W. [northwest] wind.
Birds in Garden: Ovenbird 1 [in full song]
Mniotitta varia [male], White-throated
Sparrow [male], Robin 4, Chippy 1 [in full song],
Pine Linnet [2 in a flock] in old cedar,
Blue Jay 2 [in a flock], Crow heard.
Spent most of day in Museum
answering letters which have been
coming in floods these past few
days. Mary Greenough and 
Harry's wife [Emmy?] came to
luncheon.I took them both
around the Garden, very attractive
to-day with its wild flowers &
cherry blossoms, and Emmy spent
more than an hour in the Museum
looking at birds & eggs, in which she
showed great interest. My Steamer
the "Franconia" sailed at noon to-day
without me.
Cambridge-Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAY 3, 1911 [Wednesday, May 3, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
36 [36 degrees], 46 [46 degrees]    Fine
Clear and cold with raging N.W. [northwest] wind.
A harsh, disagreeable day.
  Spent most of it in Museum
writing letters. Among them was one to Rudyard Kipling,
another to Theodore Roosevelt, a third to 
Abbott H. Thayer;  all three having
about 4 pp. [pages] each. The one to Kipling
was in answer to one he wrote me
last December, the one to Roosevelt
to express my admiration for his
"African Game Trails", the one to Thayer
to thank him for talk at Nuttall meeting
& to rebuke him for his intolerance etc.
  Heard a Peabody Bird & saw a Redstart
in Garden. The latter bird, a fine ad [adult] [male],
was on ground in birch grove.
  To Boston at 7.30 to Annual Meeting
B.S.N.H. [Boston Society of Natural History]. Only 17 members present.
  [?] [Morse?] gave a talk on shells
drawing them on blackboard just as I saw 
him do it on [same?] board 45 years ago!
 