Washington
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 10, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Sunny & cool with keen northerly
wind.
  No dentistry to-day. A.O.U. Nom
Com. [American Ornithologists' Union Committee on Classification and Nomenclature]
Met in bird room Nat. Mus. [United States National Museum]
9.30-1 & 2-4. Full meeting in
forenoon & many cases dealt with.
Oberholser [Harry Church Oberholser] refused to discuss any
purely ornithological ones or to vote on
them. I took him, Stan, Nelson, 
& Richmond to Harvey's for lunch.
After afternoon session I was taken 
through exhibition rooms by Clark
& shown many beautiful & wonderful
mounted birds & mammals mostly 
from Africa. Two Whale headed Storks
from White Nile especially impressive.
Short talk with Mearns. He has
been very ill & looks badly still.
Henry & I spent most of the
evening with Dr. & Mrs. Mann
at the apartment. I bought a 
microscope of him for $30.
Washington
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, April 11, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fine
Clear and rather warm through
middle part of the day & at evening but
almost frosty in early morning.
  To Dr. Casteel at 9 A.M. He kept me over
an hour and filled a tooth or two. Thence
to National Museum where the A.O.U [American Ornithologists' Union]
Committee on Nomenclature met for the
third & last time. Stone & Dwight had 
departed but we still had Allen, Merriam,
Richmond, Palmer, Nelson & Oberholser
We dealt with about half a dozen cases
and adjourned sine diae [sine die] at 1 when
Merriam took Allen, Nelson, Oberholser & 
me to Harvings for lunch. I went back
to Nat Mus. & spent afternoon there
talking with Manns, Clark, Oberholser, Riley
& Brown. Took 7th St. Car with Mearns.
He is in very frail health & looks it.
Before reaching Ontario went to Park entrance
& listened long to delightful whistling of
a Cardinal perched in leafless tree top.
Henry & I called this evening on
Alice Stone & Miss Mays at Richmond & 
then on the Baileys seeing only Vernon.