Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1915 [December 8, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Snowy.
Dark cloudy with fine, dry snow flakes
falling ceaselessly yet not thickly enough 
to cover the ground to a depth of more
than an inch by nightfall, although loading
every tiniest branch & twig, there being
little or no wind.
  In Garden A Chickadee & a Red-bellied
Nuthatch at the suet, several House Sparrows
in shrubbery. a dozen or more Gulls
drifting high overhead towards the sea.
The Nuthatch, a dull-colored [female] attacked
the suet vigorously, as if very hungry, 
eating it greedily at first, but after a while
she began taking off small fragments, no
doubt to cache them somewhere although
that I did not see.
  To Batchelder's at 9.30 A.M. to discuss
N.E. Zool. Club [New England Zoological Club] matters, with him & Barbour.
We spent whole forenoon talking them over.
  In afternoon I wrote a lot of
letters. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to me after
dinner this evening - from "The Duke's Children."

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 9, 1915 [December 9, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Fair
Sunny but hazy, mild but chilly,
almost windless.
  In Garden: a Chickadee, a [male] Red-bellied
Nuthatch (certainly not the bird seen yesterday)
and two or three House Sparrows visited
the suet in catapa [catalpa] tree about 9 A.M.
Later I saw a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] in the tree but
not at the suet. Earlier there was a
Blue Jay in the lilacs. I heard
a Golden-crest [Golden-crested Wren] also.
  Spent most of day in Museum
writing letters & copying field notes.
In late P.M. motored to Harvard Square
where Aimee witnessed my signature
to an application for a 1916
automobile license. Also called
at Harvard Cooperative where I
left a wolf robe to be relined &
bought a few things.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read aloud to me in the
evening when Bosson [Campbell Bosson] called to get
some of Nuttall Club records.