Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Dec. 15, 1916 [December 15, 1916] Wea [Weather]
First heavy Snow storm

Winter here at last. Snow flakes,
beginning to fall at breakfast time, came 
thick & fast not long afterwards
until by noon the ground was carpeted
with them an inch or more in depth
and by 9 P.M. - when the storm ceased -
to a depth of some five or six inches.
Hereafter we must expect slippery or
slushy side walks [sidewalks] and the penetrating 
chill of snow-cooled air - both of
which I dislike exceedingly.

  In the Garden I noted only two birds
a Chickadee that came twice to a
lump of suet suspended within a yard
of my study window & an immature
White-throated Sparrow eating deadly
Nightshade berries, in the vines that
overspread the rhododendron thicket
scarce further away.
  I sat all day long at my desk in
Museum writing letters & compiling
bird notes from diary records made
at Concord during the autumn.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] & E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] went to their Bee this
evening. I passed it alone, reading war news etc.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Dec. 16, 1916 [December 16, 1916] Wea [Weather] Fine
Death of Prof. Munsterberg.

Clear & cold with harsh N.W. [northwest] wind.
Everything buried beneath new-fallen
snow a foot in depth, Percy thinks,
but no more than 8 inches, according
to the newspapers. Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] reports it
so badly drifted in Concord roads that
Burbank had difficulty in getting to
town with our supplies this morning. 
It has no less completely than abruptly
replaced autumnal by wintry conditions
throughout the land. Rather many
sleighs passing along our city streets
with pleasingly tinkling bells. Where can
they all come from in these days
of superabundant motor vehicles
The latter were not out in anything 
like their usual numbers although
apparently unimpeded by the snow.

  Only a solitary Chickadee seen &
a Downy [Downy Woodpecker] heard, in the Garden.
  Wrote letters & bird notes. Mr. Lincoln, the
photographer, called at 10 A.M. to show me some
beautiful "interior" views, Harry Spelman at 5 P.M.

Professor Munsterberg dropped dead in
his class room this forenoon.