Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 6, 1919 [January 6, 1919] Wea [Weather]
18 [degrees], 10 [degrees] Theodore Roosevelt's death. Fine
  Early morning cloudy. Remainder
of day sunny and windless with
falling temperature
  Garden birds. 2 Chickadees at suet;
10 Starlings eating Parkman apples;
2 [females] Downy Woodpeckers & a [male]
Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker] present together & sometimes
all in same tree in Jungle when
the Hairy [Hairy Woodpecker] looked thrice as big
as the Downies. Once I saw
him eating suet in Catalpa tree
by Museum; 15 or 20 House Sp. [House Sparrow]
in clothes yard; Blue Jay taking
crusts of bread from it & cacheing [caching]
them in fence posts & tree branches.
  Spent most of day in Museum
engaged in Miscellaneous routine work;
also in pulling a string leading to Parkman
apple tree to keep away the Starlings
  Nuttall Club meeting. Large attendance
with several old time members including
Murdock, Francis, White & others. 
Glover Allen read short notes on Arctic or
Lab. [Labrador] Gr. Horned Owls [Great Horned Owl] taken near Cambridge
He showed one specimen of Lab. & 2 of 
Arctic form. I got out all my skins.

News of Theodore Roosevelt's death brought to us from Harvard Sq. by Percy at 10 A.M.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1919 [January 7, 1919] Wea [Weather]
20 [degrees] Dull
  Partly sunny but mostly dark
cloudy. Little or no wind. Air
frosty & rather chilly.
  Garden birds: All I noticed
were 2 Chickadees coming to
the suet that hangs close
beside my study window.
  A short walk (as far as Nichols
place) up Brattle Street soon
after breakfast. Spent remainder
of forenoon in Museum writing
letters. C. [Caroline Brewster] walked up from Ware
Hall to lunch with E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] &
me. After that I played Victrola
music to her for above an hour.
  She motored back in our Ford
car at 4 P.M.
  Usual evening reading.
Bosson called to solicit money
for Boy Scouts fund. Gave
him $5.