NEWS AND NOTES

FEBRUARY MEETING REPORT. For the second consecutive month the NHS meeting was postponed a week due to winter snow storms. The Feb. 14 meeting was held at St. Paul’s Church Rarish Hall with approximately 40 people in attendance. Members were encouraged to renew memberships for 1984 and to help solicit new members.

A committee was struck to work on the P.E.I. Birds Calendar/Poster Project and others with ideas, enthusiasm or expertise are still invited to participate by contacting Geoff Hogan. A motion to donate $100. to the Island Nature Trust to help offset production costs of the travelling‘nature photography exhibition was passed. Rosemary Curley reported on the contingency plan for offshore oil/gas drilling in the event of an environmental mishap. Upcoming activities involving NBS that were discussed included the U.P.E.I. science Fair, Arbor Day, and a project proposal to study Piping Plovers. John sylvester, Holland College photography student, gave a superb slide presentation on the lighthouse keepers and seabird inhabitants of Newfoundland’s beautiful Baccalieu Island (GGH).

MARCH MEETING REPORT. The March 5, 1984 meeting of the Natural History Society was held at Beaconsfield. The financial statement for 1983 was presented by Winston Johnston. Other items of business included a request by Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans biologist Tom Sefton for the NHS to sponsor a grant application for research on bar clams, rules for the upcoming photo contest in May, renewal of the society's membership in the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain and discussion of a change ofineeting place. The speaker for the evening was UPEI biology student Vicki Friesen who described life in a summer research camp on an isolated island off norhtern Quebec where she and fellow biologists David and Winnie Cairns were studying black guillemots. 1984 ANNUAL NBS PHOTO CONTEST RULES. - up to ten slides may be entered - all slides must have been taken on P.E.I. - bring slides to April meeting or submit to Margaret Mallett, 53 Fitzroy St. no later than Apr. 15 r- prizes will be awarded for winning slides - judge this year: Andy Dean

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* NOTE.’ .' CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE

, Throughout the past year the Natural History Society has held monthly meetings at several locations: Beaconsfield, Coles Building and St. * Paul's Church Parish Hall. While all of these were suitable, for * * various reasons the monthly meetings will return to the former meeting place in the Provincial Health Building, room 47 on the third floor. * This building, across the parking lot from Beaconsfield, offers plenty * * of parking in a central location. To locate the meeting room: 1. enter the underground parking garage and sign in with the

* commissionaire *

* 2. take the elevator to the third floor (room 47) , Our apologies for the inconvenience incurred to anyone over the pasty

* few months. *

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