Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Mar. 1, 1917 [March 1, 1917] Wea [Weather]
34 [degrees] max. Dull.
Cloudy, chilly, light northerly wind.
Altogether a cheerless sort of day.
  Garden bird. A White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] singing
a little, feebly: House Sparrows to the
numbers of a score or more.
  Wrote letters and weeded out a 
lot of books, that are no longer of
much use in my Museum library.
Shall place them where likely to be
more needed. It is also my intention
to give some valuable birds, which
serve no present or probable further
need of mine to Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology]
A letter mailed to day informs Sam.
Henshaw of this & requests his formal
approval of the plan. My Labrador Ducks
& Californian Condors would be among 
the first to go.
  Usual evening reading in front
hall. Both dogs with us there.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Mar. 2, 1917 [March 2, 1917] Wea [Weather]
34 [degrees] Dull
Weather almost precisely similar to that
of yesterday & the day before. Such
uniformity is unusual, especially at
this season. During all three days the
temperature has hovered close about
32 [degrees] from morning to evening. As
there has been no sunshine the surface
ground has remained frozen most
of the time.
  Garden birds. A White-throat [White-throated Sparrow] & some 
20 House Sparrows.
  Letter writing all day.
Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] brought out the Viator. Fresh
records from Steinerts. C. [Caroline Brewster] & I played
them this evening which E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] was
absent at her Bee. One by Gluck
& another by Culp proved jems [gems]
of the first water. Three others
good enough to keep. Five
will be returned.