page [51] 25 Jul 1901 (seq. 53)

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Grindstone Neck, Winter Harbor, Me.
1901
July 25

A glorious clear bracing day, with some haze in the
afternoon. The mercury went over to 50 degrees last night.
59 degrees, 8.30 A.M.; 66 degrees, 2 P.M., 62 degrees, 7 P.M., 58 degrees, 10 P.M.

My Bird Talk came off this morning at 11 o'clock on
the beautiful north piazza of Mrs. Duff. All called it
a great success. Over sixty were present including
ladies and gentlemen and a number of children. I was
told that children had never attented these lectures before
and that from fifteen to twenty five or thirty was the
usual number present. I had 45 skins that I
brought up from the Museum (W.B.'s) representing
the principal birds of my talk. I was very
pleasantly introduced by Mrs. Duff and I talked
informally for an hour and a half, using the
specimens for illustrations. I thoroughly enjoyed it
all myself, and when I finished the people
clustered about me asking questions. I showed
the Rhode Island Tern card and [Cebapmaus?]
colored pictures of Birds and Mrs. Eckstorm's
Bird Book.

Before the talk Mrs. Duff showed me her "Canon"
a strip of ground covered with a natural growth of
trees between the driveway & road, about 15 yards wide
running to a point at each end. It is in a
depression and is filled with native growth largely
introduced by Mrs. Duff. It is a beautiful spot
of nature.

This afternoon I drove with Mrs. Duff and
May along the road towards Gouldsboro. Miss Moore
Miss Houston & Miss Bliss followed in another carriage.
We got out at a wood and walked through a