Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 18, 1919 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear with light, cool westerly
wind.
Throughout Cambridge Forsythia
is now in bloom & shrubs of
various kinds are unfolding
tender green leaflets but the
lilacs have not as yet quite
burst open their swollen buds.
  Garden birds. 3 Robins ([2 males, 1 in full song & female]), a
Flicker [in full song], several Grackles, rather
many House Sparrows; Bluebird call hd. [heard]
  Rose at 10.30. Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] motored
me to Harvard Square to
keep an appointment with the
younger Dr. Andrews who gave
my teeth a final treatment of
oxygen-boracic acid gas.
This seems to have done much good
Called at Cambridge Savings
Bank to withdraw $1000. of my
deposit & with it purchase a
4 3/4% Victory Loan U.S. Bond
Gardening with Percy in P.M.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 19, 1919 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with light
cool westerly wind.
  Vegetation pushing ahead.
Linden & Maple leaves unfolding.
Sqills past their prime. Bloodroot
in full bloom.
  Garden birds [2 males in full song, 1 female] Robins flitting
hither & thither together with
happy calling, the males in full
earnest song at morn & eve;
6 or 7 Grackles taking bread from
hen yard; many Sparrows & half
a dozen blue Pigeons similarly
employed; a [female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] & a very
big [female] Hairy Woodpecker pecking
at dead tree trunks in Jungle.
A Flicker shouting; 2 Crows;
small flock of Linnets(?) flying
low northward (S. pinus [Spinus pinus] I thought)
  Rose at 10.30. Spent most of
day in Museum writing & in
garden with Percy. Dr. Horace
Stevens called at noon. Prentiss
French at 4.30 P.M. I did
not see the latter, being asleep then.