Cambridge - Boston
Ther. [Thermometer] MON. [Monday] MAR. 7, 1910 [March 7, 19010] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Heavy thunder shower about 7 A.M.
and pouring rain for an hour or more
later but the sun came out by 11 & the
remainder of the day was perfect & mild.
To Boston at 10. A.M. Spent about
3 hours at our office. Directed Mackintire
to write to a number of persons asking
them to refund a portion of the principal
of some of our mortgage notes which exceed
the limits imposed by the will. Had
a talk with Watson about it & got his
 approval as Arthur's representative.
Invested $1100 of my own in Title Ins.
notes through Edes whom I saw in his office.
Lunched at Bunch O'Grapes. Came out
at 3 P.M. & prepared some skeletons to
show at Nuttall Meeting. Townsend read his
article on Whistler courtship & I my journal notes.
A Flicker shouting & Crows cawing this morning.
A Sparrow Hawk screaming at 4 P.M. very near
Museum but not seen. Am very sure I heard
a Robin call twice in garden at 9.30 A.M.
[margin]Big flights of Robins, Bluebirds & [?] [?] Blackbirds reported at 
Nuttall Club this evening for past five days.[/margin]
Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. [Tuesday] MAR. 8, 1910 [March 8, 19010] Wea. [Weather]
30 [degrees] min. Fine
Clear with strong chill N.W. [northwest] wind.
James came shortly after breakfast
to talk over farming work & plans for
the coming summer. He reports the river
free from ice & very high. He has seen 
Deer every few days of late. When he
departed at 11 I started at once for Mus.
Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] where I spent over an 
hour with Henshaw & Barbour. A lot
of mounted birds from the Henry Bryant
collection had just come in. I went over
them & selected such as I thought the 
Museum should keep. The others are to be 
disposed of. Few have any data.
C. [Caroline Brewster] & I went to Mrs. I.M. Spelman's at 
funeral 3 P.M. She died on the 6th
Many old friends & neighbors there.
John W.T. Nichols called this evening on C.
& me staying about an hour.
4 [in a flock] crows in the lindens this P.M.