Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Wed. [Wednesday] Feb. 23, 1910 [February 23, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear & cool with fresh N.W. [Northwest] wind.
  Spent day in Museum writing
several long & important letters.
Wm. Bassett [William Bassett] called by appointment
at 11 A.M. staying about an
hour. We discussed his recent
appointment to which he seems
disposed to cling tenaciously. I
showed him a letter i had written
him suggesting that he serve a year
& then resign. He said he would
consider it & consult a lawyer about it
if I would mail it to him which I 
did at 4.20 with one to Judge Abbott.
H.B. Bailey & his two sons called
about 3.30. I was able to give them 
only a few minutes. Harry I had 
not seen before in nearly 30 years.
No birds seen about the place to-day.
About 6 inches of clean, new snow.

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] Thurs.. [Thursday] Feb. 24, 1910 [February 24, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
8 [degrees], 20 [degrees]  Fine
Brilliantly clear & bracingly cool.
  Spent day in Museum. In A.M.
finished rearranging the larger birds.
  Mrs. Fairchild, Miss Howard &
Mary Greenough lunched with us.
At 2 P.M. H.B. Bailey, his son 
Harold & Henry Purdie, arrived to
see me & the collection. We looked 
chiefly at eggs & nests in which Harold,
as was once his father, is actively &
deeply interested. He is a manly,
winning fellow whom I liked at first
sight. They departed at 4 & will take
the Fall River boat for N.Y. [New York] to night.
  There were 5 Flickers in the Parkman
apple tree at once this morning (9 A.M.)
At least 3 & I think 4 were males.
A Shrike singing in lilacs at 1 P.M.
He was a nearly adult bird. One of the
Flickers "shouted" several times about noon.