Cambridge. D.G Elliott died of pneumonia in N.Y. City [New York City].
Christmas Carol serenade
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1915 [December 22, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Mass. {massachusetts] Marbled Godwit. Fine
Sunny but somewhat overcast.
Little or no wind. Everything white
with hoar frost in early morn.
  Birds in Garden: 2 Chickadee,
White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] (heard), 2 Jays, 10 or 12
House Sparrows.
  Most of forenoon devoted to writing
a long letter to Henry H. [Henry W. Henshaw] in answer
to one that came from him last
evening. He feels that the time has 
perhaps arrived when he should resign
his position as head of Biological Survey.
I am inclined to agree to this &
have written him to such effect.
  The afternoon mostly given up to
showing my collection to Augustus
Hemenway, Matt Luce & the latter's
son. They arrived about 3 P.M. bringing
with them a mounted Marbled Godwit
shot on Cape Cod several years ago by
Mr. Hemenway, Matt Luce & the latter's
son. They arrived about 3 P.M. bringing
with them a mounted Marbled Godwit
shot on Cape Cod several years ago by
Mr. Hemenway whom Matt had persuaded
to give the specimen to me. 
  Shortly after dinner this evening we were
serenaded by Miss Thompson & her children
who sang two Christmas carols at the head
[margin]of the old & now disused driveway beneath the Peace Room windows where C. [Caroline Brewster] &
I stood listening by the candles she had lighted there. It was all very sweet & solemn.[/margin]

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Dec. 23, 1915 [December 23, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Moth on wing in Garden Mixed.
  Hoar frost in early morn. Forenoon calm,
mild, sunny but densely hazy. Afternoon 
cloudy. Evening rainy. Snow & ice all gone,
even at Concord, as I learned from a
man coming thence today with load of wood.
A small whiteish Moth flying past Museum in P.M.
  In Garden: The Fox Sparrow and
dull-colored Peabody bird feeding on ground,
at edge of lilac thicket, with a dozen House
Sparrows, at 9.30 A.M. Shortly after this
I heard a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] call in Jungle and
saw a [male] White-bellied Nuthatch come to
suet hanging in catalopa [catalpa] in front of 
Museum. I wonder where the bird last
named can have come from. Neither it
nor any other of its kind has certainly
been noted hereabouts this winter although
I thought one called once within my
hearing in Hubbard Park a week or two ago.
  Spent day in Museum writing letters &
Christmas greetings on cards etc. Forbush's
assistant called at 11 A.M. & remained until 1.
He brought a [male] Ectopistes which the owner
wishes me to keep for him "indefinitely" & took back
a lot of bird skins borrowed by Forbush for use
in coloring lantern slides.