NATURE  NOTES - 1961
DATE AUTHOR TITLE
ASTRONOMY
Oct. 61 Report on Moon-watch meeting Sept. 16.  Perfect night, cool and
clear.  About twenty-five attended.  Thanks to Lud Hill and Stuart
O'Byrne for reviving this group.
BOTANY
Apr. 61 Neill, Julian Botanical Definitions
Apr. 61 Hill, Helen Early Spring Flowers in Washington State Park
Jy-Ag. 61 Vogt, Charlotte Pickel Springs - Report on the botany trip on May 13.
Oct. 61 Report on the Botany trip on Sept. 23 to Washington State Park.
Dec. 61 Vogt, Charlotte Mistletoe - Extensive monograph on
CONSERVATION
Nov. 61 Comfort, J. Earl A Lost Walden (Warson Woods)
Dec. 61 Doerr, Bob The River Rats' Field Trip - A canoe float on the Gasconade for
The Nature Conservancy dedication of the Dr. John Hyer
Memorial Woods natural area at Lake Spring.
Dec. 61 Doerr, Bob Dr. John Hyer Memorial Woods - Account of dedication at Lake
Spring, Mo. On Oct. 14, 1961 by The Nature Conservancy.  The
woods are 30 acres in extent.
ENTOMOLOGY
Jan. 61 Bulger, Dr. Harold A The Spider's Feast - A hunting spider devours a house spider.
May. 61 Bulger, Dr. Harold A A Cricket Love Feast`
ORNITHOLOGY
Jan. 61 Red-Bellied Woodpeckers - Discussion on their eating habits.
Jan. 61 Neilson, Janet Perhaps I Only Dreamed It - Tale about a pileated woodpecker.
Jan. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Early Winter St. Louis Birds
Feb. 61 Comfort, J. Earl St. Louis Birding Review of 1961 
Feb. 61 Christmas Bird Count - For Orchard Farm; 66 species, about
5000 individuals.
Feb. 61 Bulger, Dr. H. A. Western Bird Guides - Pough's  Audubon Western and 
Peterson's Western Guides compared.
Feb. 61 Bulger, Dr. H. A. Another Woodchuck Visit
Mar. 61 Comfort, James F. Christmas Count 1960 - The annual WGNSS count at the Busch
Wildlife Area, Weldon Springs.  Count for the usual twelve areas
not noteworthy.  Details given.
Mar. 61 Mr. Snowbird - About juncos.  An editorial from the New York 
Times submitted by Dick Anderson
Mar. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Help Requested in Investigation of Bald Eagle - A study has been
initiated by the National Audubon Society because of reports of a
downward trend in the bald eagle population.
Mar. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Winter Birds in the St. Louis Area
Mar. 61 Palm, Waldemar Our American Kestrel - A Carrion Eater?  A kestrel observed
eating road kill and was not scared away by passing cars.
Mar. 61 Atkins, Elisha, M.D. Letter to Editor takes issue with some of the points made 
by Dr. Bulger in his Feb. 1961 N.N. review of the Pough and 
Peterson western bird guides.
Mar. 61 On Feb. 19th Louis Brenner of the Shaw's Garden Arboretum was
pleasantly surprised when he sighed a flock of red crossbills 
feeding on pine cones.  Usually this bird appears singly.
Apr. 61 Comfort, J. Earl St. Louis Area Winter  Birds
May. 61 Bulger, Dr. H. A. Western Bird Books - A revised (second) edition of Roger Tory
Peterson's "A Field Guide of Western Birds" has been published.
May. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Spring St. Louis Area Birding.
Jun. 61 Philbrick, Hazel Listening Post - Listening for bird songs.
Jun. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Birds in the Spring
Jy-Ag. 61 Comfort, J. Earl St. Louis Summer Birding
Jy-Ag. 61 Bulger, Dr. H. A. Yellow-headed Blackbirds
Jy-Ag. 61 Comfort, J. Earl A Day with the Longlegs - Herons at Grand Marais State Park
Jy-Ag. 61 Shorebird Roundup, Sunday, August 20 at 8 AM.  Meeting place
to be announced.  
Sep. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Late Summer Birding Around St. Louis
Sep. 61 Anderson, Dick Shore Bird Roundup
Oct. 61 Bedell, Beulah and Pickel, European Birding - Narrative of a trip.
Frances
Oct. 61 Comfort, J. Earl St. Louis Area Fall Birding
Oct. 61 Comfort, James F. The Fall Meeting at Lake Ozark, Oct. 7 and 8.  Program given.
WGNSS participants will be Dick Grossenheider and Jim Jackson.
Oct. 61 Rau, Edna The Children's Corner - View of some sad looking robins.
Oct. 61 Hill, Bob and Hill Account of unusual behavior of group of night hawks and  chimney
swifts.
Oct. 61 Annual Fall Meeting of the Audubon Society of Missouri, Camp
Clover, Lake of the Ozarks, Oct. 7 and 8.
Nov. 61 Criger, Lanier Smoke in Reverse - Account of thousands of chimney swifts 
circling an abandoned 90 ft. greenhouse boiler stack.
Nov. 61 Carter, Mary From My Kitchen Window - Bird and other sightings.
Nov. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Autumn Birding Around St. Louis
Nov. 61 Hill, Helen The Fall Meeting - Report on meeting of the Missouri State 
Audubon Society Meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Dec. 61 Comfort, J. Earl A Day at Swan Lake, or Ready or Not, Here We come
Dec. 61 Comfort, J. Earl St. Louis Area Birds
Dec. 61 Comfort, J. Earl Additional St. Louis Notes
Dec. 61 St. Louis Audubon Christmas Census, Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 AM.
Meet at the Boschertown Schoolhouse, Hy. B at 94.
Dec. 61 WGNSS Christmas Census, Sunday, Dec. 31, 8 AM, at the 
Busch Wildlife Area.  Meet at the red brick schoolhouse on Hwy.
94 just off Hwy. 40
PEOPLE
Jan. 61 Invitation to the marriage of Patricia Marie, daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Ludlow Hill, to Robert Buscher on Saturday evening, Jan. 28.
Feb. 61 Eugene J. Wilhelm, Mr., has been awarded a foreign field 
research grant by the Academy of Sciences, Washington, for 
13 months.  Wilhelm, a post-graduate student of Louisiana State
University, will study the general forest ecology of the Lake country
of the southern Andes mountains, and will incorporate the results
of his program with a doctoral dissertation in geography.  (from
Jan. 31, 1961 Post-Dispatch)
Mar. 61 Miss Nancy Self, daughter of Mrs. Margaret Self, has received 
word of her selection by the American Field Service as a foreign
exchange student in Europe this summer.
Mar. 61 Zoology Professor Gets Study Award - Hampton L. Carson, 
professor of zoology at Washington University, has been selected
as a Fulbright research scholar to study population trends at the
University of Melbourne,  Australia.  He will be on leave of absence
until December.
May. 61 Congratulations to Jean O'Byrne on winning a merit scholarship.
MISCELLANEOUS
Jan. 61 Wilhelm, Gene The Blue Ridge Spell - Trip on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Feb. 61 Bowman, Helen Spring Birds and Flowers in Mobile
Feb. 61 Massie, Bertha Northwest Passage - Narrative of a wesern trip, starting at Lake
Itaska, a Sierra Club pack trip.
Mar. 61 A Thanksgiving Soliloquy (contributed by Miss Betsy Blackwelder,
author unknown) - Very nice
Mar. 61 Bulger, Dr. Harold  Some Interesting Items in Water Usage - By insects, birds, desert
life, etc.
Mar. 61 Massie, Bertha Northwest Passage - Pt. 2 (cont'd from Feb. 61)
Apr. 61 Massie, Bertha Northwest Passage - Pt. 3 (cont'd from Mar. 61)
Apr. 61 Philbrick, Hazel B. Sand by the Sea - Observations at a beach.
Apr. 61 Bulger, Dr. H. A. Water Intoxication
May. 61 Blackwelder, Betsy The Highlights of My Trip to Europe in 1960
Jun. 61 Blackwelder, Betsy Denmark - A visit there.
Sep. 61 Comfort, J. Earl A Day at Possum Trot Farm
Sep. 61 Rau, Edna Two Grown Women and One Little Snake
Sep. 61 Hill, Helen Exposing women to nature.
Sep. 61 Blackwelder, Betsy Letter giving account of travels in the Mediterranean countries.
Sep. 61 Martha Clark Huston invites WGNSS members to attend a
reception at the East St. Louis Library, 405 N. Ninth St., on 
Sept. 9 from 6 to 9 PM to view an exhibition of her water color
paintings.
ADMINISTRATIVE
Jun. 61 At the General meeting on May 12, the following officers were 
elected to serve for the year:
     President - R. Ludlow Hill
        1st Vice President - Mrs. Waldemar Palm
     2nd Vice President -Mr. Cecil Criger
     Secretary - Mrs. Clinton Day
     Treasurer - Mrs. James F. Comfort
     Curator of Properties - Mr. Cliffort Cravens
     Editor - Mrs. Robbert Hill
Discussion at the meeting centered around the possibility of re-
establishing some of the former groups, especially entomology,
geology and entomology.  Dr. Bulger, the retiring President, gave
an interesting talk on the moon's surface.  There was discussion of
vandalism at Washington State Park; the Botany  group observed
on its recent visit that many wild flowers had been pulled up and 
later discarded.  Complaints to the Park Superintendent fell on deaf
ears.
Sep. 61 Hill, R. Ludlow Note From The President - The lease on the Roundhouse has been
extended a year; a Chairman is needed.  We are are starting to 
revive two groups again.  Dr. Bulger will head the Entomology 
Group and Stuart O'Byrne will Chair the Astronomy Group.
MEETINGS
Jan. 61 Report on the December General Meeting with Dick Grossenheider.
Jan. 61 WGNSS General Meeing, 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 13, at the 
Farm and Home auditorium, Gray and Lockwood, Webster Groves.
Mr. Theodore A. Buder will speak on the subject:  The Pre-
Ordivician History and Mineral Occurrence in South East Missouri".
Feb. 61 WGNSS General Meeting 8 PM, Friday, Feb. 10 at the Farm & 
Home Bldg., Webster Groves.  Dr. Bulger will speak on "The Vein
of the Feather".  
Feb. 61 Bird Census as the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon Springs.
Sunday, February 12, 8 AM.  Meet at the main gate.
Mar. 61 WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, March 11 at the home 
of Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Criger, 2401 Bellevue.  Mr. Criger will present 
"Songs of a Swamp" including sounds and colored pictures.  
Mar. 61 Bird Census as the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon Springs.
Sunday, March 12.  Meet at the main gate at 8 AM.
Apr. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, Sunday, April 9.  Meet at the main gate.
Apr. 61 WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, April 14, at the Webster
Groves Public Library. Mr. Moody Lenz, Curator at the St. Louis
Zoo, will talk on "Pythons and Boas".
May. 61 WGNSS General Meeting,  8 PM, Friday, May 12, at the Farm and 
Home Bldg., Gray and Lockwood, Webster Groves.  Dr. H. A. 
Bulger will talk on "The Suface of the Moon".  
May. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, Sunday, May 14.  Meet at the main gate.
May. 61 Week-end Camp at Cuivre River State Park, Sat. and Sun., May
20-21
Jun. 61 WGNSS General Meeting, 3-?, Saturday, June 10, at the Round-
house.  Watermelon picnic, the annual school's out picnic.  
Watermelon and coffee will be furnished; bring your own supper.
Jun.61 Botany breakfast at Rockwoods Reservation, another annual 
affair, Saturday June 17 at 8 AM.  Botany trips after the breakfast.
Jun. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, Sunday, June 11.  Meet at the main gate.
Jy-Ag. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, 8 AM, Sunday, July 9.  Meet at the red brick schoolhouse
just off Hwy 40.
Jy-Ag. 61 General and Botany Field Trip, 4 PM, Saturday, Aug. 12, at  Hill's
Hill on Four Ridge Road.   Botany field trip in the afternoon; 
meteor watch in the evening, with Stuart O'Byrne in charge.  
Sep.61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, 8 AM, Sunday, Sept. 10.  Meet at the red brick school-
house just of Hwy 94.
Sep. 61 Astronomy and General Meeting, Saturday, Sept. 16 (time not 
given).  The Moon Watch Station is on Hibler Rd.
Oct. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, 8 AM, Sunday Oct. 1.  Meet at the red brick schoolhouse
on Hwy 94 just off Hwy 40.
Oct. 61 WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Oct. 13, at the Farm 
and Home Assoc. Bldg., Webster Groves.  Mr. Lad Cutak of
Missouri Botanical Garden will talk on "Plant Hunting for the 
Climatron".   
Oct. 61 General Field Trip at Hill's Hill on Four Ridge Road, Sunday, Oct.
29 at 10 AM.
Nov. 61 WGNSS General Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Nov. 10, at the home of
Mr. & Mrs. Waldemar Palm, Quinette Rd., Kirkwood.  The Palms 
will show pictures and tell of "Exploring in the Great Smokey 
Mountains".
Nov. 61 Monthly Census at the August A. Busch Wildlife Area, Weldon 
Springs, 8 AM, Sunday, Nov. 12.  Meet at the red brick school
house on Hwy. 94 just off Hwy. 40
Dec. 61 Christmas Party and General Meeting, Friday, Dec. 15, 7:30 
PM, at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Joel Massie, 6 Indian Hill, Ladue.
The Massies will show slides of their latest trip out West.