Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 14, 1916 [January 14, 1916] Wea [Weather]
30 [degrees] at 8 A.M. Fine
6 [degrees] at 9 P.M.
  Clear & increasingly cold with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
  In Garden: An im. [immature] Peabody bird
with something over a dozen House
Sparrows. A Flicker flying from the
Parkman's apple tree. No other birds
noted.
  Spent entire day working with
Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] in gallery of Museum. My
attention was drawn to the condition
of the collections there several weeks 
ago when I found that several of
the cases were infested with [anthrinae?].
These have since been bi-sulphided.
We are now rearranging their contents
with a view to economy of space etc.
Two of the cases are filled with
bird & eggs from Henry Purdie's coll'n [collection].
  C's eyesight is failing again & has been
ever since Christmas when she wrote a
lot of letters. It was very dim to-day.
Lizzy Fuller dined & spent evening with us.
E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to her Bee.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer]  Saturday, Jan. 15, 1916 [January 15, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
2 [degrees], 22 [degrees] Fine
  Clear & very cold with little or no
wind. Windows encrusted with frost
in Museum. Snow in street giving
out creaking sounds under wheel
pressure.
  In Garden. A dull-plumaged Peabody
bird, about a dozen House Sparrows,
a single Chickadee (flitting through
birch grove), a Jay (heard screaming).
  Spent day in Museum. Accomplished
nothing save the writing of a few
letters. My Umbagog M.S. [manuscript] has
not been touched for more than a
week. Just why it has been so
neglected I do not myself quite
feel sure. But somehow all my
mental energy seems to have
suffered complete collapse of late.
This may be due to my giving up
smoking. I have not touched tobacco
since last Monday nor had any desire
to. Victrola music this evening.