page [23] 1 Jul 1901 (seq. 25)

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Cambridge, Mass.
1901
July 1

Another year has closed and three
months are before me. The months have
slipped by very rapidly and pleasantly.
I have completed a card catalogue
of the mounted collection of birds and
entered all the facts I could gather.
Will Brewster has told me a good
many things that were not recorded. The
catalogue is on library cards in a tin box.
It is the first separate record of the
entire collection, and has been many
weeks' labor. Will has been pushing
his list of the Cambridge Region birds
with energy. He has had many duties
to attend to since his three months
stay with Dr. J.G. Gehring in Bethel, Me.
About twenty five birds remain to be done.
There he will finish in Lancaster, Mass.
Then comes the long introduction –
I have spent much of my leisure
moments in correcting my lists of Erica-
ceae & Umbelliferae (Rhodora I, 1899) to
date. The Ericaceae with come out in
the July number in a few days. The
Umbelliferae in the August number.
It has taken a good deal of labor
though it doesn't show for very much.

We go to Salem, N.Y. to-morrow to
visit the Misses Audubon for a week.
Temp. for a week frightfully high, above 90
a low part of the day.