NATURE NOTES - 1947
ASTRONOMY
Sep. 47	O'Byrne, Stuart L.	Interplanetary Intruders - The Perseid meteors.
Dec. 47	O'Byrne, Stuart L.	Ruby Stars
BOTANY
Mar. 47	Christ, Arthur	Botanical Names - The derivation and meaning of the generic and
		specific names.
May. 47	Christ, Arthur	Azaleas at Pickle's Spring
Aug. 47	Christ, Arthur	Ironweed
Sep. 47	O'Byrne, Olive	The World in Your Garden - The July 1947 issue of National
		Geographic contains color plates of paintings of 100 garden
		flowers from various parts of the world, with an interesting native
		back ground on each.
CONSERVATION
Apr. 47	Beilman, August P.	Keeping the Soil Where It Belongs - An engineering approach to
		prevention of erosion on watersheds.  (Condensed by Olive
		O'Byrne from Missouri Wildlife, Jan. 1947)
ENTOMOLOGY
Feb. 47	O'Byrne, Harold	Entomology Group to Study Glades
LODGE
Sep. 47	Magner, Marshall	Urges people to make more use of the Lodge to discourage
		strangers from entering and disfiguring the property
Oct. 47	O'Byrne, Stuart	Rockwoods Caravan at the Lodge - Group led by Naturalist
		Harold O'Byrne came to Ranken to visit the Lesser Ranken Cave,
		about 100 yards from the Lodge.   Members of the Society
		escorted the visitors to the cave.  Good description of the cave
		interior and includes a cave map.
Nov. 47		Wood Chopping Bee, 9 AM, at the Lodge.
ORNITHOLOGY
Jan. 47		Birds Seen in the St. Louis Area in the Year 1946
Jan. 47		The Best Birds of 1946 - And who saw them
Jan. 47		Christmas Bird Census at Ranken - 18 observers in 5 parties.
		Total miles afoot - 28-1/2.  Range size:  4 x 6 miles - 35 species,
		950 individuals.  Dec. 22, 1946
Jan. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Christmas Bird Census at Glendale - 7 hrs., single observer, 6-1/2
		miles on foot - 30 species, 750 individuals.
Jan. 47		Other Christmas Bird Counts, tabulated by James Earl Comort,
		Arthur Christ and Jack Van Benthuysen.  Overall:  65 species.
		Data given for St. Charles County and Weber Lake on Dec. 22
		and for Swan Lake, Illinois on Dec. 28.
Jan. 47		Birder of the year - James Earl Comfort, with 228.  Data given for
		five other birders.
Jan. 47		Bird Find - A Shufeldt's junco, by Jack Van Benthuysen.
Feb. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Bird Notes
Feb. 47		Original Bird Art - An exhibition of original bird art will be held in
		the Art Room of the St. Louis Public Library between Feb. 3 and
		March 1.  List of artists exhibiting included.
Mar. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Bird Notes
Apr. 47	Jones, Sterling P.	A Few First Aids for Nesting Birds - How to clean bird houses,
		putting out bags of twine for nest builders, etc.
Apr. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Bird Notes
Apr. 47		Spring Audubon Meeting - To be held in Kansas City, April 19-20.
		Roger Tory Peterson will be a field trip leader.
May. 47	Cone, Ellen	A Sure Sign of Spring - Return of the warblers and other birds.
May. 47	Comfort, James Earl	How Birds May Be More Easily Recognized (a reprint of an earlier
		Nature Notes Article)
May. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Bird Notes (Incomplete because of telephone strike)
May. 47		Sunday, May 4, 7 AM - Spring Bird Census at Ranken Nature
		Lodge.
Jun. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Spring Migration Bird Notes
Jun. 47	Grummann, Susan	Automobile Birding
Jul. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Blue Grosbeaks Put on A Show (near Bourbon)
Aug. 47	Comfort, James F.	Two New Bird Books:
		Audubon Bird Guide, by Richard H. Pough (Doubleday & Co.)
		A Field Guide to the Birds (Eastern North America), by Roger
		Tory Peterson (Houghton Mifflin)
		Reviews of both books.
Sep. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Buff-Breasted Sandpipers
Sep. 47	Jones, Sterling P.	European Tree Sparrow - (Doubtful) Report of a sighting in
		Springfield, Arkansas (Conway County, near Little Rock)
Sep. 47		New Bulletin - Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows, and
		Titmice by Arthur Cleveland Bent, published by the United
		States National Museum.
Oct. 47		Jones'  Check List - A third revised edition of Sterling P. Jones,
		"Migratory and Permanent Resident Birds in the St. Louis Region"
		has just been published.
Oct. 47		Missouri Audubon Society - The annual fall meeting will be held
		at Hahatonka, Missouri, on Oct. 11 and 12.
Oct. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Fall Warbler Migration Delayed - Cause:  the unprecedented hot
		weather during the first half of September.  Other bird notes also
		included.
Nov. 47	Bowman, Helen	A Florida Vacation - She saw lots of birds
Nov. 47	O'Byrne, Stuart L.	Woodland Feasting - A downy wodpecker apparently feasting on
		the seeds in a honey locust seed pod.  A titmouse tried to do the
		same but couldn't emulate the woodpecker.
Nov. 47	Cone, Ellen	Gray Skies and Birds - A birding trip by ten WGNSS birders in
		St. Charles County, and what they saw.
Dec. 47	Comfort, James Earl	Fall Birding
Dec. 47		Christmas Bird Census at Ranken, 8 AM to 5 PM, Sunday, Dec.
		21.  There will be time out for lunch and hot coffee.  Do not
PEOPLE		hesitate to wear that extra suit of long reds.
Jul. 47	CJB	A Wedding is Coming Up -Announcement of the engagement of
		Jack Van Benthuysen to Miss June Goehausen of Webster
		Groves.
Nov. 37		David and Maude Rau happily announce the birth of their twins,
		Carl Philip and Carol Ellen.  Grandparents are Mr. & Mrs. Phil
		Rau and Mr.& Mrs. Ludwig Lodewyks.
MISCELLANEOUS
Jan. 47		For the New Year (Editorial)
Jan. 47		Animal Tails - First article of a series about animals inended
		"to add interest and make this Journal a bigger and better
		publication" - Story about a raccoon - Additional contributions
		solicited.
Feb. 47		Animal Tails - Story about a fox chasing a fox hound, from the
		Missouri Conservationist.
Mar. 47	O'Byrne, Olive	Varied Approaches to Nature - Condensation of an article by
		Lewis G. Westgate in the Scientific Monthly, Feb. 1947 - Des-
		cribes the approach of the scientist, the nature lover, the painter,
		and the mystic.
Mar. 47	O'Byrne, Harold	An extensive program of public activities is planned at Rockwoods
		this year, including hikes, nature walks, motor tours, and movie
		shows.  Notice of these events will appear monthly in Nature Notes.
Jul. 47		Three Platypuses Arrive from Australia - For the Bronx Zoo
ADMINISTRATIVE
Mar. 47		WGNSS Nominating Committee.  The committeee consists of
		Max Schwarz, Arthur Christ and Irmgard Schnaedelbach.
		Suggestions will be apreciated.
May. 47		New Members (7)
May. 47		WGNSS Elects New Officers for the Coming Year:
		President  - J. Marshall Magner
		1st V. P. - Mrs. May B. O'Byrne
		2nd V. P. - Mrs. F. H. Piper
		Secretary-Treasurer - Miss Beulah Bedell
		Museum Director - Mrs. Helen Hill
		Lodge Director - Mr. Adolph Dreyer
		Curator of Publications - Mr. Harold O'Byrne
		Curator of Properties - Miss Ellen Cone
		Editor - Jack Van Benthuysen
		New Group Chairmen for the year will be:
		Astronomy - Mr. Arthur Leiser
		Botany - Mr. Arthur Christ
		Entomology - Mr.Harold O'Byrne
		Music - Mrs. Joel Massie
		Ornithology - Miss Ellen Cone
May. 47		The Editor thanks all who contributed to the purchase of a new
		mimeograph machine.
Jul. 47	Editor	Help!  Help!  Help!  Call for contributions for Nature Notes
Aug. 47	O'Byrne, Stuart L.	Notes on Photographing Nature in Color
Aug. 47	CJB	Bouquets - Ernestine Magner has volunteered to cut stencils for
		Nature Notes and Stuart O'Byrne is operating the mimeograph
		machine.
Sep. 47	Magner, Marshall	Announces the purchase of a new Radiant screen with tripod for
		the showing of slides.
Oct. 47	Magner, Marshall	Society Property - We're trying to prepare an up-to-date list of pro-
		perties belonging to the Society and to gather together all written
		records into one central file.  If you have either property or records
		belonging to the Society, please call Ellen Cone or Marshall Magner.
MEETINGS
Apr. 47		WGNSS Annual Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, April 4, at the home of
		Mrs. Wm. Pickens, 72 Marshall Place, Webster Groves.  Officers
		will be elected and reports from officers and group chairmen will
		be the main business of the evening.  Short program of photo-
		graphs taken by members.
Apr. 47		General Field Trip to the cottage of Dr. & Mrs. McKillopp's cottage
		in Ste. Genevieve County, Sunday, April 20, 9 AM
Jul. 47		Combined Field Trip to Mr. Samuel Alfend's cottage on the
		Meramec River, Sunday, July 6, 10 AM.  Will feature a
		Botany Field Trip led by Arthur Christ, Music Group meeting, and
		probably swimming and canoeing.