Concord - Boston - Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Aug. 10, 1918 [August 10, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy & very cool with fresh
north-easterly wind.
 Cambridge Garden birds. A Mniotilta [Mniotilta varia],
Jay & House Sparrow were literally
all I could find about the place
this afternoon.
  Shortly after breakfast Burbank motored
me over to Bedford where I took
8.14 train. On reaching Boston went
directly to our office & spent above
an hour there. Did a little shopping
& came out to Cambridge by noon,
going from Huron Ave. car to Gray
Herbarium where I saw Mc.Bride [James Francis Macbride] &
Cameron. We compared a branch of
Rhamnus Frangula taken yesterday
at Concord with a living bush in the
Bot. Garden [Botanical Garden] & found the two essentially
alike. Since my last visit there Mc.Bride
has found in their collection specimens 
of Lathyrus pratensis taken at W. Springfield [West Springfield].
   Home by 1 P.M. Spent afternoon
writing letters. Alice Bartlett called.
  Emmy Kettell hers since yesterday noon.
She, E.R.S. [Elizabeth R. Simmons] & I spent evening in hall talking.

Cambridge
Ther [Thermometer] Sunday, Aug. 11, 1918 [August 11, 1918] Wea [Weather]
Dull.
Cloudy, cool & windless. Heavy rain
last night. Everything drenched by it.
today.
  Garden birds. Continued scarcity of both
migrant & local ones. 2 ad. [adult] Robins with
one or more bob-tailed young; a Red-eye [Red-eyed Vireo];
a [Miriotilto?]; Kingbird, Cedar bird
& Swift heard.
  Went with Emmy Kettell to call on
Alice Bartlett in forenoon. In late
afternoon we walked down Brattle St.
thro. Mason St. & half around common,
now crowded with barracks for recruits
& enclosed in a high board fence
bristling with barbed wire. Came
back thro. Berkely & Craigie Streets.
Spent much of day in Museum,
writing letters. Miss Hoppin
dined with us. Clara Howe
called after supper.
  A tree Cricket ( but no more than
one) fiddling in lindens every night
now.