Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. MAR. 23, 1910 [Wednesday, March 23, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear, calm, seasonably warm.
  Spent day in Museum.
Devoted entire forenoon to
answering two letters about the
Trustees mix-up that came this
morning one from Arthur E. [Arthur Estabrook],
the other from Judge Abbott.
In afternoon wrote other letters 
& picked out a number
of birds to be sent to Eatons for
examination. Walter Deane
called at 5.30. An hour or so
earlier young Brewer came to ask
me to endorse his application to
Minot for a collecting permit. Just
after lunch Jackson called me by tel. [telephone]
to ask if he might nominate me for
Councillor Bos. Soc. N.H. [Boston Society of Natural History]. I said yes!
A Flicker shouting lustily, a Jay screaming, 
a [female] Junco on ground & Crows flying over
were the only birds noted in Garden.
Cambridge.
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. MAR. 24, 1910 [Thursday, March 24, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Clear with fresh W. [west] wind. Warmer.
  Hundreds of Squills in full bloom
in front of house & Museum. Snow drops [snowdrops]
still in their prime. Crocuses past theirs.
  Spent most of afternoon at Mus. Comp.
Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]. Took down some nests as a gift 
& Todd's Yellow Warbler to identify.
  Saw Henshaw [Samuel Henshaw] & Bangs [Outram Bangs] in their rooms.
Met John Thayer in Oxford St. [Street]. He
expressed strong faith in Anas rubripes [American black duck]
& said "Dwight is dead wrong about it."
I left M.S. [manuscript] of reply to Dwight at Batchy's [Charles Forster Batchelder's] 
house. He brought it back this afternoon.
He thinks it good & has no fear that it
will offend Dwight. He has seen Robins
ever since Mch. [March] 16 & almost daily of late
running on his lawn. Strange that none have 
appeared in or near our grounds as yet.
A Flicker shouting, Crows cawing & a
Song Sparrow singing sotto voce in our Garden.
Heard another Flicker at Batchy's.
10 Crow Blackbirds in our Garden at 3 P.M.
[margin] Miss Swazey around this evening to hear [?]. [/margin]

