Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1916 [February 15, 1916] Wea [Weather]
-2 [degrees] +20 [degrees] Fine
  Clear & cold with light northerly
wind. Perfect sleighing with a 
surprising number of horse-drawn
sleighs & pungs passing up &
down Brattle Street but only a
very few automobiles out.

  In Garden: a Chickadee (whistling
the Phoebe call), a [male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] at
suet, a Jay flitting through Jungle
dislodging puffs of snow whenever 
he alighted, a Peabody bird chirping
insistently at sunset & seen later  
roosting in honeysuckle vine by
Museum door where he remained
crouched among the thin semi-evergreen
foliage as I passed out within 2 feet
of his perch.

  Spent day in Museum. Catalogued
& labeled birds, rearranged a 
lot of field notes, & other things.
E.R.S.[Elizabeth R. Simmons] laid up with a cold. C.[Caroline] &
I spent evening together in hall. I 
read paper to her & played Victrola.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, Feb. 16, 1916 [February 16, 1916] Wea [Weather]
2 [degrees], 32 [degrees] Fair
  Early morning clear & cold but
free from chill. Most of day sunny
& windless with steadily rising
temperature & increasing cloudiness.
  In Garden: an im. [immature] White-throat [White-throated Sparrow], a few
House Sparrows, 2 Jays.
 Spent day in Museum. Rearranged
books in gallery.
  "We Dine" at Harry Spelman's
this evening. All there except
Barbour, Bent [Arthur Cleveland Bent] & Goodale [Joe Goodale].
Uncommonly good dinner. &
interesting talk afterwards, mostly
about Great War, the Brandies [Louis Brandeis] case,
and national politics. It seemed
strange for the second time this
year to find myself with the small
non-smoking minority. Even Townsend
& Batchelder [Charles Forster Batchelder] had their one cigarette 
each. We broke up about 10.45