Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Feb. 7, 1914 [February 7, 1914] Wea [Weather]
Dull
Densely cloudy & very chilly with
a little rain. A very dark and dreary day.
Ground covered by icy snow 3" [inches] or 4" deep.
Brown Thrasher on roost in vine 5.20 P.M.
4 or 5 Chickadees about the suet.
  Worked all day on Sparrow Hawk 
story. Wrote 3 pp. [pages] mostly compiled
from notes. There will not be much
more to add for I can say little
about the bird which is not already
known to almost every one.
  Gilbert & Percy have been scouting
the place for San Jose scale & have found
it on apple trees hawthorns & spireas.
The lilac hedge is bad with oyster shell 
scale. Pierce called this P.M. to talk
it over. He will spray for it soon.
  Dramatic Club to-night. C. [Caroline Brewster] & I went
sitting between Lois Howe & Batchy [Charles Foster Batchelder]
Excellent comedy well acted. Home
by 11.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Feb. 8, 1914 [February 8, 1914] Wea [Weather]
22 [degrees] Fine
Clear & rather cold with brisk
N.W. [northwest] wind. Everything frozen over again
& snow sheathed in coat of glistening ice.
Sidewalks dangerously slippery.
  5 Chickadees at suet, one whistling.
A Jay, a House S. [House Sparrow] & a Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker] heard.
Thrasher on roost in vine at 5 P.M.
  Because of my bronchial cough &
of the icy sidewalks I did not go
to church. Spent forenoon in
Museum writing letters (to Dr. G. [Dr. John Gehring], R.D. [Ruthven Deane],
H.W.H. [Henry W. Henshaw] & others). Miss Allyn &
Mary & George Deane dined with
C. [Caroline Brewster] & me on a Concord Chicken at
1.30. They all stayed until 4
after which I got off more
letters & began on the Fish Hawk
story, writing almost a page.
Walter Deane called at 8.30
staying almost an hour.
After that E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] read "Ayala" [Ayala's Angel] for
half-an-hour.