NEWSLETTER NO. 25 October, 1977

NEXT MEETINGS

Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd Floor, Room 47 Program: 'Tuesdav, October 4. 1977 — Bruce McLaren will give a talk on

"Ragweed" and show samples of the plants. Tuesday, November 1, 1977 — To be announced

Tuesday, December 6, 1977 — Frank Huston of the P.E.I. Department of Agriculture and Forestry will speak on "Beautiful, Edible and Noxious Weeds".

ANNOUNCEMENTS

MEMBERSHIP DUES: Presently we have 8 Family Memberships ($4.00),

71 Regular Memberships ($3.00), and 8 Student Memberships ($1.00). When requesting a membership, please make cheques payable to the Natural History Society of P.E.I., c/o Miss Margaret Mallett, 53 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown, P.E.I. ClA 1R4. Please include your mailing address, phone number(s), and postal code.

"WINDS OF SEA AND WOOD", Vol. 1, written and published by this society, is still available at Tweel's Gift Shop, the Book Mark, Card Shop, Heritage Foundation, Confederation Centre Gallery Sales Desk, and at the NHS Meetings.

NHS CRESTS are available at 3.50 each. and gold on white.

These attractive badges are blue

NEST RECORD CARDS should be completed and mailed to the address given on each card. The deadline is October 1 but records are accepted after that date. Nest records from previous years are also solicited.

THE 1978 CANADIAN NATURE FEDERATION CONFERENCE is to be held in Charlottetown and hosted by our society in collaboration with the N.B. Federation of Naturalists, next August. CNF is the only national ‘ naturalist's voice in Canada and this marks the second time that the annual meeting will be held east of Ontario. The August, 1977 meeting in Regina, was both informative and entertaining with a variety of slide presentations and field trips. Details of the 1978 conference will be discussed at our October meeting.

NEW PRESIDENT

The Natural History Society has a new president. Dr. Winston Johnston has served as Vice-President of the society for 2 years, and replaces

Diane Griffin who resigned in August, 1977. Winston is a cereal grains specialist at the Agriculture Canada Research Station in Charlottetown.

A NUMBER OF BIRD SIGHTINGS were received last Spring, too late to publish in our May Newsletter. Since these are "old news", they are not being published in the fall issues. However, the records have been retained and will probably be used in a future issue of "Winds of Sea and Wood". Please send in fall sightings as usual to Kathy Martin, Biology Department, University of P.E.I., Charlottetown.

THE FUNGUS FORAY of Sunday afternoon, September 11, was held on the St. Catherines section of the Bonshaw Hills Trail. Led by Dr. Katherine Clough, 25 persons searched eagerly for fungi of all sorts. Some persons took home previously unfamiliar mushrooms, cooked and ate them and lived to tell the tale.