Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  THURS. MAR. 27, 1913 [Thursday, March 27, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
68 [68 degrees]        Stormy
  Raining heavily all day. Very
warm. Clearing & colder by night.
  Vegetation advancing rapidly &
now 3 weeks ahead of normal.
City lawns a vivid green as in
May: Parkmann's apple, Spiraea,
Larch & Japanese barberry already
green with unfolded leaves some
as broad as my little finger nail.
Lilac buds bursting with leaf.
Hyacinths in bloom in front of 
Museum. Snow drops [snowdrops] & crocus
past their prime.
  Worked all forenoon on Pigeon
story adding a fresh page. C. [Caroline]
type wrote it. Outram Bangs
called at 2 P.M. to study my [?].
He will describe a [?] [?]
from them. Met Harris [?]
at Mrs. Brown's 9 A.M. & had a 
wrangle with him about oak flowers.
Cambridge
Ther [Therometer] FRI. MAR.28, 1913 [Friday, March 28, 1913]  Wea [Weather]
30  [30 degrees]     Fine
Clear & cool with light
northerly winds.

  In the Garden a Chickadee,
Flicker [in full song], Blue Jay & male Hairy W. [male Hairy Woodpecker].
Where is the March flight of
migrating Sparrows? Not one has
appeared here as yet. I especially
miss the Fox Sparrows. What can
have become of them?

  Spent forenoon in Museum
rearranging & puttering among things
particularly the M.S. pages [manuscript pages] of
my Umbagog Story. I have written
& C. has copied just 164 of them
since last November.
  To  Mus. Comp. Zool [Museum of Comparative Zoology] in P.M.
Talked with Sam Henshaw, Outram
Bangs & Tom Barbour. Saw many
interesting new things. Dr. John B.
May called on me this evening.