Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Dec. 6, 1915 [December 6, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Cloudy & very chilly yet not cold for
the ground was muddy in our garden paths.
A few snow flakes falling occasionally.
  In Garden: a Chickadee (at suet), Gold crest [Golden-crested Wren]
(heard), White-throat Sparrow (dull-plumaged,
chirping among shrubbery front of Museum), several 
House Sparrows, a Jay, a Flicker (heard).
  Spent day in Museum writing letters
and rearranging things in my desk
and elsewhere. "Timmy" with me most
of time. He dislikes the cold & loves
my open fire. No one called to-day.
The carpenter worked for an hour or two
finishing his various unfinished tasks.
  Nuttall Club meeting this evening, rather
largely attended. Annual election of
officers - all reelected. Peters gave
us an interesting talk on Birds observed
along coasts of the Carolinas last
summer. I showed slab with supposed
fossil footprints. Townsend & others presumed 
it igneous & non-fossiliferous.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1915 [December 7, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Thin cloudy chilly & almost windless.
Surface of exposed ground frozen over night
muddy at midday. Our lawn still green.
  In Garden: a Golden crest [Golden-crested Wren], Jay,
Flicker and 4 or 5 House Sparrows.
  Spent day in Museum writing
many letters including one to
Harvie-Brown and another to Carr
intended to reach them at Christmas
time. My daily mail has been
uncommonly heavy of late requiring
much work to keep it answered.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read President Wilson's
annual message aloud to me this
evening - a long winded document
inferior in literary merit to what
he has written before but not
deficient, we think, in wise advice.