Cambridge - Boston.
Ther [ Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 30, 1916 [March 30, 1916] Wea [Weather] Mixed.
Forenoon thin cloudy; afternoon bright
sunny. Calm; mild. Snow & ice
disappearing as if by magic yet
without now leaving much surface water.
 This morning our lawn was more
than one half snow-covered, by night 
three quarters bare ground. The river 
open above Harvard Square but still
ice-bound below Harvard Bridge.
  In Garden: Robin running over bare turf
of lawn 8 A.M.; Peabody bird & Purple
Finch singing sotto voce; 2 Jays.
  To Boston at 10.30. In our office
much of time from noon to 4 P.M.
Called at Steinerts & at Columbia
Graphophone place getting a lot
of records at each for trial.
Also visited Park Pollard place in 
quest of more Fan-tail Pigeons for
Concord. They had none but can get some.
 Home by 6. Terrible crush in subway
cars. Tried Columbia records this
evening & shall keep all but one of 6.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 31, 1916 [March 31, 1916]  Wea [Weather] Fine
Fuertes calls
Clear, calm, soft & spring-like
Streets dry & dusty, snow wasting
fast and mostly gone from all
sunny exposures but still lying in 
deep drifts on north sides of fences,
buildings etc.
  In Garden: A Robin calling; a Purple
Finch singing sotto voce; 2 Jays; a
[female] Downy [Downy Woodpecker]; a White-throated Sparrow
whistling softly; 3 Grackles in tree tops.
  Motored to Harvard Square with 
E.R.S [Elizabeth R. Simmons] at 10 a.m. She went to her
dentist. I did some shopping 
then motored over to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
where I had a talk with Sam Hen-
shaw [Samuel Henshaw] & spent an hour in bird
room with Banks & Bent. The
latter came to my Museum in P.M.
to take notes on my wood duck.
  Fuertes came out this evening
at 8 & stayed until 11. We had a 
good talk & some Victrola music
which he adores.