Cambridge - Boston.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. AUG.12, 1910 [Friday, August 12, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine
Clear with light W. [west] wind. Warmer.
Drove to Porters at 9.30 A.M. 
intending to take 9.45 train for
Boston. It was late & I did not 
start until 10.30. Meeting of
Committee on Education of Academy
in our office to interview teachers.
  Professor Lord [Edwin H. Lord] & Judge Bell were
both there, as was Sargent [Charles Sargent]. We 
kept at it from 10.45 to 3.30
(minus an hour for lunch) and
saw in all six or seven men
finally seleting [selecting] two, Davis, a
fine young fellow, & an older man
whose name I cannot remember-
Lord & I lunched with Arthur at
Exchange Club. I came out by
way of Porters reaching home at 4.30.
C.[Caroline] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to me this evening.
Cambridge - Lancaster
Ther. [Thermometer] SAT.  AUG.13, 1910 [Saturday, August 13, 1910] Wea. [Weather]
Fine.
Clear & very warm with light S.W. [southwest] wind.
  C. & I spent forenoon at our
usual task in the Museum.
  Took 1.49 train from No. Cambridge
for Lancaster where John Thayer
met me at the station & drove
me directly to his house. As we were
ascending the hill to it he called my
attention to a dozen or more Kingbirds
in shrubbery by roadside assuring me
they were eating berries of Viburnum
dentatum but this I did not see.
His daughter Nora received me at home.
After a short talk with her we sallied
forth for a walk visiting first the
flower garden - very charming; next the
duck pond where we fed about 200
water fowl of many different kinds;
finally Bayard Thayers pheasantry where
the Scotch keeper, Hare, showed us swarms
of young Pheasants, some tiny Bantams &
a lot of ducks. John & I spent evening
in library talking.