Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1919 [February 25, 1919] Wea [Weather]
34 [degrees] Fine
Clear & mild with moderate
westerly wind.
  Noticed no birds about the
place.
  Breakfast in bed. Stayed there
until nearly noon. Down
stairs by 12.30 just in time
to receive E.W. Nelson [Edward William Nelson] &
Outram Bangs who were on
their way in town to attend
a hearing given by Adams at
State House at 2.30 to discuss
proposed restriction of collecting permits.
They spent almost half hour with
me. Nelson looking wonderfully well.
C. [Caroline Brewster] arrived soon after they
did. I did not see her until
luncheon. After it we had
Victrola music & went egging
in hen house, getting 5 eggs.
C. departed at 3.30. Dr. Stevens
called at 11 A.M. E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read from
Transcript this evening.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1919 [February 26, 1919] Wea [Weather]
First snow-drops Fine
  Light rain overnight & at daybreak
but the sun shone bright & clear
by 9 A.M. & the remainder of
day. There was a rather strong
& harsh N.W. [northwest] wind.
  Garden birds. At 8 A.M. a wet
& bedraggled Blue Jay flitting
about in the clothes-yard;
at 4 P.M. 2 Hairy Woodpeckers,
[male and female] and 2 Downy Woodpeckers,
at least one & I thought both, [female],
visited the suet in catalpa tree.
The [male] Hairy was a small bird
of its kind, the [female] a very big one
There was also a solitary Chickadee.
  Lay in bed until 11 A.M. Was
reading newspaper in den at
noon when an applicant for
Burbank's position came, Leslie
H. Shepard by name, now working
for Gardner Lawrence. He seems a 
rather crude specimen ill-suited to
my need yet not wholly unprepossessing.
Spent most of P.M. in Museum.

2 white Snow Drops in bloom front of Mus. [Museum]