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     .JRAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND NEWSLETTER 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Newsletter No. l0 November, l975 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mysterical concept of animals. 
     
    

    
     Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artiface, man in civilization 
     
     surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather 
     
     magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incomplete- 
     
     ness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein 
     
     we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world 
     
     older and more complete than ours they moved finished and complete, gifted with 
     
     extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall 
     
     never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings. They are other nations, 
     
     caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor 
     
     and travail of the earth.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     - Henry Beston 
     
     (from I'The Outermost House”) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Next Meeting 
     
    
   
   
    
     DATE: Tuesday, November A, l975 
     
     TIME: 8 p.m. 
     
     PLACE: Provincial Health Building, 3rd Floor, Room #7 and 48. (Enter through the 
     
    
   
   
    
     underground garage on west side of the Provincial Administrative Building. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PROGRAM: To be announced. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Announcements 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nature Slide Contest Rules 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1) Members may submit up to six nature slides taken on P.E.|. during l975. 
     
    

    
     2) Do not put your name anywhere on the slide mount. 
     
    

    
     3) Submit slides in a sealed envelope bearing your name on the outside. 
     
    

    
     h) Bring slides to the December meeting. They will be judged and shown at the 
     
     January meeting, l976. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Junior Naturalists Program 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     During the October meeting of the Natural History Society, there was some discussion 
     
    

    
     on initiating a junior chapter of the Society. The members present agreed that this 
     
    

    
     was a good idea and appointed a committee of three (Rosemary Curley, Eileen Stewart 
     
    

    
     and Liz Millen) to pursue this matter. They have met once already and hopefully 
     
    

    
     will have something to report to us at the November meeting. Any juniors or adults 
     
     interested in becoming involved should phone Rosemary Curley at 892-hl5h or 892—6843 
     
     home). 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     No-Luck Duck 
     
    
   
   
    
     Now that the hunting season is open some of you may be having roast duck on your 
     
     dinner table. Not that seasons mean a lot to some hunters. A case was observed 
     
     where duck was “main course” on the menu on June 10, l975, and that's right in 
     
     the middle of the waterfowl breeding season! 
     
    
   
   
    
     Early one morning while conducting observations for a waterfowl breeding pair survey 
     
     this summer at Larkins Pond in Selkirk, my attention was attracted by a splashing 
     
     noise along the pond shoreline. I couldn't tell just what was happening but a few 
     
     minutes later a male blue-winged teal swam out from the edge. Nothing unusual there!