Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Jan. 26, 1918 [January 26, 1918] Wea [Weather]
18 [degrees], 24 [degrees] Perfect
Brilliantly clear & wholly 
cloudless skies, bright sunshine,
almost no wind, altogether 
rarely perfect - if frostily cool - 
mid-winter day.
  Garden birds: 4 Chickadees visiting
suet; 7 Starlings in Parkman
apple tree; Crow cawing afar off.
  Working all day on Umbagog
M.S. [manuscript]. Complied for it a short
account of David Robbins
(alias Gant Gurley) and the
"Lost Child" James Wilber.
  Dick Dana [Richard Henry Dana Jr.] called in late
P.M. We talked for half an hour
or more by the Museum fire.
He has been at Fort Sheridan
& Plattsburgh recently & testifies
favorably as to efficiency etc in
both camps.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Jan. 27, 1918 [January 27, 1918] Wea [Weather]
4 [degrees], 15 [degrees] Fine
Another day of brilliant sunshine
and windless, frosty air. Although 
colder than yesterday it did
not seem so.
  Garden birds, 4 Chickadees at
suet; [male] Flicker on trunk of
seckle pear tree. 2 Jays in
Jungle.
  I have seen no House Sparrows
about the place for two weeks.
  Harry Spelman spent most of
forenoon with me in Museum,
coming, he said, chiefly "to
get warm", their fuel supply having
run low.
  Miss Jenny Chapman, Miss Allyn,
Alice Stone, Frank Manning &
Harry Bartlett were with us at
dinner. Frank & Harry stayed on
until 4.30. After that I wrote for
two hours. C. [Caroline Brewster] spent evening
with us by hall fire.