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NATULJ. HISTORY SOCIETY 0E PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEWSLETTER Newsletter No. 3 December 1974

NEXT MEETING

Date: Wednesday, December 4. Please note change of day.

Time: 8:00 D.m.

Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd floor, Room 47 & 48. (Enter through underground garage on west side of Provincial Administrative Building).

Program: Miss Pat Rogers will show slides taken on a bus tour through Yukon and Alaska last August.

Announcements:

The program for the January meeting will consist of a show of nature slides by members and a nature slide contest. Each member is requested to bring 3 or 4 of his best slides to the January meeting.

Two rules: V 1. Slide must be taken on P.E.I. 2. Slide must have been taken during 1974.

If you develop prints, take along several of your best. These will not be judged, but they will be appreciated.

Interested in hiking, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing? Every weekend, the Bonshaw Hills Trail Club will be conducting outings on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, leaving from Red Cross Headquarters at approximately 1:30 p.m. For specific information call 894-8551. Ask for Bob Perry to give you the time and nature of the outing.

Birds, Bush and Barnacles,a nature booklet published by the Department of the Environment and Tourism, has recently returned from the printer's and is now available for distribution. This booklet is ideal literature for school children or interested amateur naturalists. For further information contact Diane Griffin at 892—7411.

Canadian Nature Art 74

This annual exhibition of works by nature artists, started in 1971, is jointly sponsored by the Canadian Nature Federation and the National Museum of Natural Sciences. The exhibit opened in London during the annual meeting of the Canadian Nature Federation and will be shown primarily in associate museums and exhibit centres, within the National Museum Program. During the period from December 2 to 22, the exhibit will be in the art gallery of the Confederation Centre of the Arts.

This travelling exhibition is an attempt to make part of our national heritage available to a greater number of Canadians and to provide the artists with a showcase for their interpretation of the land and its life. The 1974 edition is extremely good; thus all mem— bers of the Natural History Society and other interested persons are strongly encouraged to visit the Art Gallery to view it.

- Notes From November 5 Meeting -

We received a letter from Blomidon Naturalists requesting our support and suggestions for protecting Cape Split, Annapolis Valley, from proposed hydropower developments._It was agreed to write a brief on behalf of the society, expressing our support and forwarding con- structive suggestions. '

Elanor Lowe, our president, expressed concern over recent hap- penings in the Morell area. It seems that a preposed cottage subdivision was hurriedly and secretively approved before all concerned government