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.