Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES.  FEB. 15, 1910 [Tuesday, February 15, 1910] Wea. [Weather] 
20 [20 degrees] - 43 [43 degrees]  Fair
Partly cloudy; calm; mild.
  To Boston at 10 A.M. Spent
over two hours at our office.
Had talk with Watson & asked
him to intimate to Bassett [William Bassett] that
if he will give us a written promise
to resign at the end of a year
I will not oppose his serving as
Trustee for that time. Watson
said there is an even chance of
his agreeing to this. Talked with
Mackintire on same subject.
  Bought some old books at Burnham's
& came out to Harvard Square where
I bought shoes & had hair cut.
Home about 5. Harry Spelman
called at 9. We talked over Bassett
matter & he gave me $1165.00 on mortgage.
News reached me this morning of death
of only child of Will L. Brewster's on
Sunday last.
Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. FEB. 16, 1910 [Wednesday, February 16, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
56 max [56 degrees maximum]   Dull.
  Cloudy & warm with light Easterly [easterly]
wind. Snow melting fast, streets deep
in slush but little bare ground as yet.
  Spent day in Museum working on
rearrangement of pamphlets & finishing
it. John Thayer & Outram Bangs
called at 11 A.M. bringing Lower Cala.
specimens of Micrathene whitneyi and
Passerculus rostratus et sanctorum.
to compare with my series. They
stayed about 1½ hours.
We Dine meeting a [at?] Goodale's this
evening, everyone there. We elected as
new members Tom Barbour and
Arthur C. Bent. It was decided to
quietly drop Chadbourne without notice.
A Flicker "shouting" at intervals this
morning but not in really full voice.
Thaxter tells me that one has been pecking
mortar from Museum walls & eating it.
This Thaxter saw [?] a few Jays.