Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Nov. 16, 1917 [November 16, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Fair.
Partly sunny, mostly cloudy, very
chilly with keen northerly wind.
  In Garden 2 Chickadees, 2 Gold crests,
a Blue Jay.
  Wrote cheques for bills after breakfast
until 11.30 and then motored to
Mus. Comp. Zool. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] to attend Congress
of Fish & Reptile men who publish
"Copea". There were only some twenty of 
them all told, holding their annual
meeting in Nash Lecture room, but
they seemed a remarkably keen, earnest
lot of young fellows & the papers, lantern
slide talks & discussions were full of 
interest. Much was said about Fowler's
Toad, in which discussion I took some
part. Barbour was in the chair &
Jack Nichols acting as Secretary. The
former gave us an excellent lunch
in his Museum room. I walked
home at 3.30. Batchelder, Oberholser,
Glover Allen, Dr. Mark, Murphy at
meeting.
C. [Caroline Brewster] had a comfortable day. E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons]
read Trollope to me this evening.

Cambridge - Boston
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Nov. 17, 1917 [November 17, 1917] Wea [Weather]
Glorious
Cloudless, almost windless, warm in sunny
places, crisply cool in shaded ones -
Altogether a rarely perfect day of late
autumnal type.
  In Garden. 2 Gold crests and a
Peabody bird. A Brown Creeper just
across street in Hubbard Park.
  Went in town at 11 A.M. to spend
rather more than two hours at our
office where I signed a transfer of
$1000 Liberty Bonds bought for our
Estate last June & now to be changed
from 3 1/2% to 4%. Lunched at 
Thompson's Spa. Called at Mr. Leverett's
office at 2 P.M. and had a talk with
Mr. Brown. He thinks it will be
best to transfer Geo. B. Kettell Estate
to a New Jersey Trust Co. He is
to ascertain just how this should be
done; also details as to New Jersey law
affecting the matter. He told me that
Mr. L. omitted to make income tax
return of C's [Caroline Brewster] property in 1913 & asked me
to look it up at our office. Galloupe
finds her return not included with mine.
  Home by 3.30 called at the Spelman's.
Walter Deane called on me this evening.