Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, Jan. 24, 1918 [January 24, 1918] Wea [Weather]
6 [degrees], 20 [degrees] Fine
Clear and cold with fresh
northerly wind.
  Garden birds: a [male] Flicker
in Parkman apple tree; Chickadee
heard.
  An interrupted day devoted
mostly to various routine
duties such as writing letters &
cheques. Some time was also
given to working on Umbagog
manuscript.
  Smith Dexter lunched with
us and afterwards spent upwards
of an hour with me in the
Museum. He has just finished
a full months service as
a chaplain at Ayer military
encampment. His account of
it is most interesting and
altogether favorable. He reports
abundance of coal at Concord.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, Jan. 25, 1918 [January 25, 1918] Wea [Weather]
17 [degrees], 26 [degrees] Dull
Dark cloudy and intensely chilly
with only just enough snow fall
to whiten surfaces previously
kept clear from it (ie plank walks etc).
  Garden birds. A Jay screaming
somewhere not far off; 6 or 8
Starlings feeding on Parkman
apples until driven from the
tree by my jerking a cord 
attached to it.
  A day of literary accomplishment
unusual in my experience. In
the forenoon I began & finished
a short article for the Auk (merely
a few notes relating to a shifting
of names for the northern Parula 
Warbler); in the afternoon
a full page of manuscript that
required no copying was written
for my Umbagog "Introduction."
C [Caroline Brewster] with us at table & in hall, this
evening. Usual Vic. [Victrola] music & reading
aloud.