Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 20, 1918 [January 20, 1918] Wea [Weather]
6 [degrees] 14 [degrees] Fair.
  Sun shining rather dimly 
from a somewhat overcast sky.
Air crisp & almost windless
Altogether an average winter day.
  Garden birds. 4 Chickadees
together at suet haning [hanging] in
catalpa by Museum.
  Two of our Museum loft Fantails
have laid their first 1918 eggs &
are sitting on them. The only two
left at Concord died about the
last of December during - and no
doubt because of - the intense
cold weather at that time.
  Spent forenoon & late afternoon
in Museum writing letters.
  Miss Allyn our only guest at
dinner although there was a 
Concord Turkey served.
  C. [Caroline Brewster] confined to her room again
by a slight setback.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Monday, Jan. 21, 1918 [January 21, 1918] Wea [Weather]
10 [degrees] 26 [degrees] Fine
Brilliantly clear with calm,
frosty air.
  Perfect sleighing but only a few
pungs out to take advantage of it.
Ground uniformly covered by
about 4 inches of snow solified [solidified]
by combined action of recent rains
& frosts. The sun has scarce
availed to soften it anywhere
for the past month or more.
  Garden birds. Several Chickadees
visiting the suet. Noted nothing 
else.
  Batchelder & Bangs arrived
soon after breakfast to spend a
long forenoon looking over my
New England birds. Of these they selected
series of several species to
compare at Mus. C.Z. [Museum of Comparative Zoology] with
Newfoundland material on which
they are at work.