Cambridge
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] MAR. 11, 1910 [March 11, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
24 [degrees] min. [minimum] Fine
Clear, calm, frosty.
  There are ten or a dozen crocuses
in bloom in front of the house
but only one of the yellow ones
in front of the Museum has appeared
as yet & that is not fully open.
  Spent day in Museum working
on the reply to Dwight and making
great progress with it. The only
interruption was when Charley Noyes
called at 12.45 to talk over his
family affairs. I gave him a cheque
for $208. to pay the doctor's bill
for his father. He left at 3 P.M. 
  May Cunningham lunched with C. [Caroline Brewster]
& me at 1. Charley had had lunch
& would not come in. George
uncovered the pond in front of
Museum & saw a live fish in it.
A Flicker shouting in the Garden & a 
[male] Crow Blackbird in apple tree there.
Hoffman saw Mockingbird in Bot. Garden [Botanic Garden].
[margin]Ralph Hoffman saw a silent Mockingbird in Botanic Garden this morning[/margin]

Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT. [Saturday] MAR. 12, 1910 [March 12, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
26 [degrees] Fine
Clear with raw N.E. [Northeast] wind. A white
frost at sunrise.
  Spent day in Museum working
on reply to Dwight & making fair
progress. I suppose it cannot be
finished now in time for April Auk.
Billcliffe came at 9 A.M. to discuss
plans for a new fence on their
sides of our grounds. We measured 
for it etc. Robert Jackson joined
us & offered suggestions. Mackintire
called at 3 P.M. to report about
mortgages. Several people have paid
the excess amount & other promise to
do it soon. We had a pretty dinner
party this evening with flowers &
presents & Roman lamps for lighting. The
Cobb-Fullers, the Chapmans, Miss Allyn,
Miss Howard & Miss Burgess came.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] returned from Springfield this P.M.
Flicker shouting, Crows cawing, nothing else.