NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
P.O. BOX 2346, CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. C1A 8C1

MEETINGS are held on the first Tuesday of the month (except June, July, August,
and September) at 7:30 p.m. at the Farm Centre on University Avenue,
Charlottetown. Members and non-members are welcome. Please bring your coffee
cup so that we will contribute as little as possible to the waste stream.

MEMBERSHIP is open to anyone interested in the natural history of Prince Edward
Island. Membership is available at any meeting or by contacting Dan McAskill,
Charlottetown RR #5, Donagh, P.E.I. C1A 7J8 (phone 569-4351). Annual
membership rates are: single - $4; family - $5. Renewals are due in January.
Membership expiry dates are in the top right hand corner of the mailing label.

The Society is directed by a volunteer executive elected from its members.

1990 Executive: President..... .-Pat Wootton, Charlottetown 892-5761 or 962-3641
Vice-President... .sccceese Wendell MacKay, Stanley Bridge 886-2495
Past President...........Sue Stephenson, Charlottetown 368-2789
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NEWSLETTERS are published bi-monthly. Articles, notes, reports, drawings, etc.
are welcomed from members and non-members. If you have seen anything unusual,
please share it with us. It is important to have your observations recorded so
that others may learn from them. "Today's notations become tomorrow's history".
All contributions should be sent to:

Dan McAskill, The Newsletter Editor

Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown RR # 5, Donagh, P.E.I. C1A 7J8

The Natural History Society gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance
from the Department of Tourism and Parks which enables the newsletters to be
distributed to schools and libraries and to members.

The Natural History Society is an affiliate of the Canadian Nature Federation
and has representation on the board of the Island Nature Trust. The Society is
a registered, non-profit organization. Tax receipts are issued for donations to
the Society and these funds are used to further the work of the Society.
Editors of other newsletters are welcome to reprint articles from the Island
Naturalist (except when copyrighted). Acknowledgment would be appreciated.

THIS MONTHS COVER

It is only fitting that we use one of the common finds from our beaches to
celebrate July's great beach weather. The Common Northern Moon-Shell (Lunatia
heros) featured on the cover is found in many of our sandy or mud bottomed
intertidal waters. It reproduces from eggs laid in gelatinous egg capsules
embedded in a wide, circular ribbon of sand which is often called a "collar".
The illustration is from the book, A Preliminary Guide to the Littoral and
Sublittoral Marines Invertebrates of Passamaquoddy Bay by Brinkhurst et al.

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