Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 4, 1915 [January 4, 1915] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees] Fine
  Clear and cold with little or
no wind.
  In Garden: a few House Sparrows.
Walter Deane saw a Starling this
morning perched in a elm in front
of Joseph Thorpe's place, Brattle Street.
A woman who was looking at it
through an opera glass knew what it
was and said she had seen two
or three others like it in Longfellow
Park, of late.
  Spent forenoon in Museum working
on Banded-backed Woodpecker story &
finishing it or nearly so. C. [Caroline Brewster] type copied
all I had written since Thursday.
  Miss of Concord called by
appointment at 2 P.M. to protest against 
recent suspension by Sargent of her niece
a pupil in Brewster Academy. I wrote him
about it after she left. Batchy [Charles Foster Batchelder] came at
7.45 to show me Memorial - very well done.
Nuttall Club meeting 8-11. Lyman
Underwood gave a talk on Yellowstone Park
illustrated by the most beautiful slides
I have ever seen. It was otherwise most interesting.
Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1915 [January 5, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fine
  Clear and somewhat less cold
than yesterday with scarce any wind.
The snow showed no signs of melting
anywhere, even at high noon. It still
remains attractively pure & spotless
within our grounds and also in
Brattle Street as far up and down
as one can see from the house.
  A [male] Flicker in elm over driveway,
curtseying and calling, as I was dressing
about 8 A.M. Several House Sparrows
flitting hither & thither amid our
shrubbery later in the day.
  Got to work at my writing about
10.30 a.m. after adding a brief
closing paragraph to Three-toed
Woodpecker story I laid it aside as
finished and began on the Sapsucker
article composing something over 2 pp. [pages]
of introductory matter before 6.30 P.M.
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] went in town for fresh Victrola music.
We tried upwards of a dozen new
records this evening & rejected only four.
Found at least 2 real "jems" among them.