Boston - Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs. [Thursday] Aug. 10, 1911 [August 10, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Home Again. Fine
Clear & hot with light westerly winds.
We had breakfast on the Arabic at 6 &
landed at E. Boston [East Boston] at 7 A.M. It was 10.30
when I got everything through customs house
(where I paid $5.10 in duties) but then I
did not hurry. There was some trouble
later about my old chair & I had to return
from our office to make declaration that
I believed it to be a genuine antique. Was
at our office 2 hours in all & saw
Haley there. Also Darling, Galloupe & Sted B. [Stedman Buttrick].
Gilbert met me at wharf & brought all my
things out in a carriage. I came out
at 2.30 & found house open & ready for me.
Mr. & Mrs. G.M. Allen came at 5 &
stayed an hour. I called on Walter & Margie
& the Coolidges in evening learning from them 
of the death of Margaret Manning a week
ago of typhoid at Cohasset. Got back at 9.30.
A Red eye singing in our lindens, Robins 2 [male] ad. [adult]
Goldfinches, 2 Blue Jays, 1 Flicker A Chickadee & a Water Thrush
in the Garden. Fairly full chorus of Tree Crickets
after dark. Many Cicadas frying. It was good
to see our house all there once more 

Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] Fri. [Friday] Aug. 11, 1911 [August 11, 1911] Wea. [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy & cool with easterly winds
and occasional light sprinkling of rain.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters etc. Michael Mulrey
called in P.M. to ask if I would assist 
him in buying a house at some future
time. I said I would if I conveniently
could when the time came but made no
promise of any kind. At 10.30 A.M.
Gilbert & I went to Harvard Square in a
coupe and did some errands there. After
this he went to Boston & I to Mus. C. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
where I saw Sam Henshaw, Outram Bangs
& Dr. Phillips. Looked at Petrels & became
fully satisfied that the smaller Mother Carys [Mother Carey's Chickens]
of our last voyage were P. pelagica, the big,
wholly dark ones Bulweria bulweri [Bulweria bulwerii] & the
 Shearwaters we called Auduboni, the smaller 
black-backed P. affinis [Puffinus affinis]. Called on the Allens
this evening. Saw in Garden to-day 1 Oven Bird
1 Canadian Warbler, 1 Hummer with white throat,
3 Swifts, 1 Water Thrush, Heard Red-eyes [in full song]
Orioles [,] King bird. Same day 2 [male] Goldfinches 3 [?].