Save Our Waterfowl; and Junior Category - 
     
     Consolidated on Bug Busting Brown Bats. 
     
    

    
     In charitable activities, the Society: raised $ 528 during its Bain 
     
     Birdathon for contribution to the Geoff Hogan Biology Honours Research Fund; 
     
     contributed .American Birds to the U.P.E.I. library and, when that. was 
     
     discontinued, sponsored its replacement Audubon Field.Notes; presented.a copy 
     
     of The Maritimes Breeding Bird Atlas to the Confederation Centre Library; and 
     
     contributed $ 100 to the Island Nature Trust's Natural Areas Honourary Deeds 
     
     program to purchase natural areas. 
     
    

    
     The cooperators on the Amphibian Monitoring Project prepared a draft 
     
     report for a national publication on amphibian monitoring programs in Canada. 
     
     This information was utilized to prepare the special report in Issue 133 of 
     
     the Island Naturalist. The Hillsborough Pier Tern Colony seen another 
     
     successful breeding year thanks to the Society's intervention through the 
     
     removal of two Great Black-backed Gull nests. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kate MacInnis of Dundas 
     
    
   
   
    
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     David Cairns led the Society's effort to increase public awareness on . 
     
    
   
   
    
     natural history through conversations with CBC producers. The Society 
     
     attached copies of the Canadian Nature Federation brochure to one issue of 
     
     its newsletter to encourage members to join the primary national naturalist 
     
     organization. 
     
    

    
     0n the financial end, the Society had revenues of $ 10,168.44 and 
     
     expenditures of S 11,635.94 for a net loss of $ 1,467.50. This however 
     
     included $ 1,294.70 for the reprinting of the newsletter from the book fund 
     
     and $ 1,282.21 for slides from Vireo for additions to the teaching collection 
     
     of the Society. Both of these latter projects were from accruals from 
     
     projects in previous years and were being held in reserve for these projects. 
     
     The costs were kept under control in part by reducing the size of the 
     
     newsletter (see Island Naturalist # 134) and asking the schools whether they 
     
     wished to continue receiving the newsletter. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURALIST IN ACTION: by Dan McAskill 
     
    

    
     Members of the Natural History Society were deeply saddened by the 
     
     recent death of Mr. Wendell MacKay. Wendell became one of the eighteen 
     
     founding members of the Society at its inaugural meeting on November 13, 1969 
     
     and, since then, has been one of the unsung heroes of the Society. It was 
     
     Wendell and Thomas Lothian who took on and completed the arduous task of 
     
     preparing the Society's constitution in 1972 and 1973. During this same 
     
     period he initiated efforts to access a meeting room in the Provincial Health 
     
     Building to overcome problems with changing‘ meeting places. He was 
     
     successful and, on January 17, 1973 and for the subsequent 12 years, Society 
     
     members met and learned more about natural history at this site. 
     
    

    
     It was in 1974 that Wendell, then serving as a Director of the Society, 
     
     proposed the creation of a nature slide competition for members. Since then, 
     
     the annual nature slide show has been one of the most popular events of the 
     
     Natural History Society of Prince Edward Island. It was also Wendell who 
     
     proposed the logo contest that led to the creation of the Society's logo by 
     
     Claire Martin. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Over the years, Wendell contributed to many other areas of the Society's 
     
    
   
   
    
     health and activities through work on the Executive Committee, judging of the 
     
     U.P.E.I. Natural History Society awards, drafting of constitutional 
     
    
   
   
    
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