NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LTD. P.O. BOX 2346, CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. ClA 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, 420 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. CIA 7J8 (phone 569-4351). Annual membership rates are: single - $4; family - $5. Renewals are due in January. Membership expiry dates are in the t0p right hand corner of the mailing label.

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

1991 Executive: President . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Barbara Currie, Charlottetown 894-9297 Vice-President . . . . . . . ..Mary Beth Harris, Battery Point 569-2665

Past President..Patrick Hootton, Sharram Point 892-5761 962-3641

Secretary.. . . . . ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Carolyn Meincke 368-1704 Treasurer.............. . . . . . ......Dan McAskill, Donagh 569-4351

Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Vic Toews, Charlottetown 566-4998

. . . . . . . . . ..........Donald Wilkinson, Sherwood 566-1279

NEWSLETTERS are published bi—monthly on recycled paper. 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. ClA 7J8 The next newsletter deadline is October 15th, 1991.

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 (Part 2, Companies Act). 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

The close of the summer season is very near and the autumn storms will bring many beach finds ashore. This past summer on the Conway Sand Hills members of the International Census were fortunate enough to find two clusters of the egg cases of the Naved or Edible Nhelk Buccinum undatum. These fist sized clusters of up to several hundred eggs are assembled in overlapping capsules resembling clear corn kernels. The illustration on the cover is from the book A Preliminary Guide to the Littoral and Sublittoral Marine Invertebrates of Passamaquoddy Bay by R.O. Brinkhurst, L.E. Linkletter, E.I. Lord, S.A. Connors, and M.J. Dadswell.

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