Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Aug. 10, 1917 [August 10, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Heavy rainfall of past 36 hours. Fair
Partly sunny, mostly cloudy, warm, humid.
raining through much of last night, at
times very heavily especially during a
violent & prolonged thunder shower that
awakened us all about daybreak. The
newspapers report that the rainfall of the
past day & night exceeds four inches. Its
effect on vegetation has been marvellous.
Within two days city lawns hitherto
almost wholly brown & lifeless seeming
have become nearly as uniformly green
as they were in May & June. The
trees & shrubbery also look much refreshed.
  Garden birds. Few in number & variety.
2 Robins with young calling for food, 2 Jays
[with young calling for food], 2 or 3 House Sparrows, an Oriole hd. [heard]
calling & a Hummingbird with white throat
hovering at Bocconia blossoms were all I
noted.
  Spent most of day in Museum. Wrote
out an account of experience with the
Hel. pinus [Helminthophila pinus] seen yesterday. Also letters.
Mrs. Cobb at supper. After she left E. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read war news to C. [Caroline Brewster] & me in hall.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 11, 1917 [August 11, 1917] Wea [Weather]
First Tree Cricket Fair
Forenoon sunny & rather warm; afternoon
cloudy with cool easterly wind.
First Tree Cricket chirping in lilacs at
7 P.M. & later. Single blood red Dragon Fly
still haunting pond. Hummingbird Moth
(the small, gaily painted kind) among
our flowers - seldom thus visited here.
  Garden birds. Only a very few & these
including no migrants for all I could
see or hear were a Robin, a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo],
a Jay, two or three House Sparrows, &
two Swifts at evening.
  Worked all day on my Museum
Report finishing it in the rough
by 5 P.M. when I called on
Harry Spelman finding him at
work in his garden as usual.
  There are more people spending the
summer in this neighborhood than
for many years past. The motor
travel through Brattle St. has become
excessive & a great nuisance because so
very noisy.
We read & had Victrola music this eve.