Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 16, 1916 [March 16, 1916] Wea [Weather]
Fine
Brilliantly clear with keen,
calm wintry air. According
to the newspapers no more than
8 inches of snow fell yesterday
but it is piled three or four
feet high when shoveled out
along our walks & Burbank
sends word of "drifts seven or
eight feet deep" at Concord
where the public roads are well-
nigh impassable & the wood roads
quite so, he says.
  In Garden: Chickadee, Jay, Downy [Downy Woodpecker]
& Crow heard; 2 im. [immature] Peabody
birds with about 10 House Sparrows
at the seed bed. As far as I
am able to judge by conditions
here there has been no arrival of
migrants from further south as
yet unless perhaps that of the
Robins & Cedar birds [Cedar Waxwings] may be so
considered.
  Worked all day on Purdie collections.
Dick Dana called in late P.M. &
we had a good chat of an hour or so.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 17, 1916 [March 17, 1916] Wea [Weather]
12 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear and colder
with high north-west winds.
Fine sleighing, hard going
for motor cars.
  In Garden: A Jay foraging
for bread in company with
House Sparrows. Heard a 
Peabody bird chirping.
  Spent day in Museum
working in gallery on the
Purdie collection. Arthur Bent
arrived about 10 A.M. &
remained until 1 P.M.,
taking notes of some of
my large water birds.
  Gilbert brought out a lot
of Gogorza [Emilio de Gogorza] records which
we tried this evening. They
proved altogether disappointing
& I shall have to return
every one of them.