Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Feb. 25, 1916 [February 25, 1916]  Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with heavy rain
which began last night and continued
through much of today wasting
snow & ice and flooding city
streets. Temperature mild but air
chilly with the penetrating chill of
melting snow.
  In Garden: a Chickadee (heard),
2 dull plumaged [dull-plumaged] Peabody birds,
a score or more of House Sparrows,
[male] Downy [Downy Woodpecker] at suet.
  Spent day in Museum
writing labels for collection
of Labrador nests & eggs obtained
for me in 1905 by Dr. Grenfell.
There are several choice sets
among these specimens but most of
the eggs are crudely blown &
many lack definite data.
  E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at the Bee this evening.
I read war news to C. [Caroline Brewster] &
played a few records also.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Feb. 26, 1916 [February 26, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Dark cloudy with frequent but
not incessant rainfall, for the most
part not heavy. Very foggy at times.
Altogether a dreary sort of day.
  In Garden: Heard a Chickadee
calling & at the same time saw what
looked like 4 birds of that species
flitting afar off through the Jungle.
Two Downy Woodpeckers also there
together then. Heard a Blue Jay
later. Two im. [immature] Peabody birds
& plenty of noisy House Sparrows.
  Spent day in Museum working
on the egg collection, labeling
many sets & rearranging others.
Anthrinae have wrought some
damage to feather-lined nests in
the gallery but I am not sure
that any of it is recent. It seems
best to bisulphide the cans, however.
  We three spent evening in hall.
E.R.S. read aloud & I played Victrola.