NATURE NOTES - 1969
DATE	AUTHOR	TITLE
BOTANY
Feb. 69		Chairman Edgar Denison's plans for another great series of
		spring wildflower excursions.  Tentative schedule of events given.
Feb. 69	Christ, Art	Pinesap or False Beech Drops
Mar. 69	Christ, Art	Adam-And-Eve Orchid
Apr. 69	Ulbrich, August	A Look at Mosses
Apr. 69		Botany buffs will be interested in a new book, "Ozark Wildflowers",
		by Jane Prince and Wellington Scott.
Apr. 69	Christ, Art	Indian Cucumber Root
May. 69	Feigley, Peg	Rolling Stones Gather Some Moss
May. 69	Nagel, Lillian	April Flowers of the St. Louis Area
Jy-Ag. 69	Christ, Art	The Prairie Turnip
Jy-Ag. 69	Denison, Edgar	Rambling Thoughts Upon (the four) Botanical Excursions (this spring)
Sep. 69	Christ, Art	The Oaks of Missouri
Oct. 69	Christ, Art	Asters and Goldenrods
Nov. 69	Sullivan, Father James	How to Find a Rare Plant - Some rare plants named.
Dec. 69	Christ, Art	Orchid Valley - A trip to Pickle Spring area with Father Sullivan
		and the discovery of lots of orchids
CONSERVATION
Mar. 69		The Missouri Scenic Rivers Act - Discussion of an act being
		sponsored by several location organizations, including the
		Meramec Canoe Club, to help preserve many of the state' scenic
		rivers.
May. 69	Bauer, Paul	America Should Create Shorebird Refuges
Jun. 69	Ossorio, Jean C.	Seal Slaughter:  A Cause for Conservationists, followed by an
		Addenda by May B. O'Byrne and a second Addenda by the
		Editor
Jun. 69		A request for assistance in a campaign for eliminating
		bounties in Missouri
Jun. 69		Plans are being formulated by the Corps of Engineers to
		deepen th Mississippi River navigation channel from 9 to 12 feet.
		Hopefully the planning will consider all interests, recreation and
		conservation as well as commerce.
Sep. 69		A Review:  The Population Bomb, by Dr. Paul R. Ehrlich, Sierra
		Club-Ballantine Books, paperback, 200 pages.
Oct. 69	Dwyer, Robert L.	Reflections and a Plea for Help!  -  In educating the public about
		conservation issues; an essay.
Oct. 69		Citizen Action Against Pollution - By the Coalition for the Environment.
		A meeting is scheduled consisting of five workshops on different
		subjects.
Nov. 69	Dwyer, Robert L.	Methods of Sewage Treatment.  Describes the process for primary,
		secondary, and tertiary treatment and the cost of each.
ENTOMOLOGY
Jy-Ag. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces - A second part about a swarm of honeybees that
		appeared where he works downtown.  Detailed description of their
		organization,.
Dec. 69	Anderson, Dick	The Purple Martin vs. the Mosquito - Data on using the bird for
		mosquito control.  Conclusion:  Bird not very effective for mosquito
		control but nice to have around.
GEOLOGY
Feb. 69	Kendall, Maxine	Call Me "Rockhound" - Working with minerals.
May. 69	Denison, Edgar	Missouri's Geological Past and Present
Nov. 69	Stockwell, Daisy Pat	Geological Treasures - Geodes from Jefferson County
Dec. 69	Stockwell, Daisy Path	Fossils of Imperial - Deals primarily with trilobites.
HERPETOLOGY
May. 69	Hoessle, Charles H.	An Introduction to "Herping"
ORNITHOLOGY
Jan. 69	Wiese, Mary	The Robin and the Woodpecker (a poem).
Jan. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	November Birds in Kirkwood Park
Jan. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Late Fall Birds in the St. Louis Area
Jan. 69	Flieg, J. Michael	The New Look - An Editorial - About modern game breeding
Feb. 69	Cope, Gladys	Looking Back--and Ahead (on birding)
Feb. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Early Winter Birds in the St. Louis Area
Feb. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	A Brief Review of St. Louis Area Birding
Feb. 69	Ulbrich, August	Water is Essential for Birds in Winer
Feb. 69		Christmas Census Summaries for 1968 - Detailed data for
		Pere Marquette State Park, Gray's Summit-Labadie, Orchard
		Farms, and Weldon Springs-Busch Wildlife Area.
Feb. 69		Fourth Annual Eagle Count along the Mississippi River.  Meet
		at Duval's Motel, Clarksville, Saturday, Feb. 15, at 8:30 AM.
Mar. 69		A ring-billed gull bearing a light blue wing marker capured in
		Alton has been identified as a gull captured at a breeding
		colony in Michigan in 1968.
Mar. 69	Donis, Judy	January Yardbirds
Mar. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	1969 St. Louis Area Birding
Apr. 690	Wiese, Mary	An East African Bedtime Story
Apr. 69		The National Audubon Convention here will feature post-convention
		trips to several western Missouri birding areas, including the
		Squaw Creek NWR and the prairie chicken booming grounds
Apr. 69		Late Winter Birding Around St. Louis
Apr. 69	Meloy, Winifred	Birding in Arizona
Apr. 69		National Audubon Convention, hosted by the St. Louis Audubon
		Society, at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel
May. 69		Welcome, National Audubon Conventioneers!
May. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Early Spring Birding Around St. Louis
May. 69	Anderson, Richard	Habits and Habitats of the European Tree Sparrow
Jun. 69	Snetsinger, Phoebe	On the Glories of Doing It yourself
Jun. 69		Why do sick house sparrows appear in my yard for a week so in
		my yard each year??
Jun. 69	Dashwood, Jean	Summer in a Cordoba (Argentine) Garden
Jun. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Spring Season Birds of the St. Louis Area
Jun. 69	Bauer, Paul E.	Tape Recorder Competes with Pileated Woodpecker
Jy-Ag. 69	Bauer, Paul E.	The 64th Annual Meeting of the National Audubon Society in
		St. Louis was the largest ever held--official attendance was 1,178.
Jy-Ag. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Late Spring Birding in the St. Louis Area
Jy-Ag. 69	Hays, Donald R.	Throw Away Your Year Lists!!! (or make better use of them than
		counting to see if you have 200 birds.) - For example, consider
		expanding to provide breeding bird surveys and such.
Jy-Ag. 69	Donis, Judy	May Yard Birds.
Jy-Ag. 69	Editor	Jim Comfort is compiling a checklist of birds that have been found
		at the Busch Wildlife since 1950.  The list now contains 259
		species.  A list of possibles not yet reported is given, and readers
		are asked to contact him if they have spotted any of the possibles
		not now on the list.
Sep. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Birds of a Feather
Sep. 69		"What Is a Geese? - An essay by a Saskatchewan schoolboy
		(very humorous)
Sep. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Summering Birds Around St. Louis
Sep. 69	Anderson, Richard	A new birding group has been organized nationally, with primary
		emphasis on competititve listing.  It's called the American Birding
		Association.  Address in Austin, Texas given.
Sep. 69		Unfurnished (for birds) suburban gardens
Oct. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Summering Birds in the St. Louis Area
Oct. 69	Vogel, Dorothea	The Post Convention Trip to Squaw Creek and the Prairie Chicken
		Booming  Grounds.
Oct. 69	Pickering, Burrell	Bluebird Nesting Box Study - 1969
Nov. 69	Struthers, Mrs. Richard	Report on birds seen on returning from a family camping trip at
		Hunnewell Lake, including lots of cattle egrets with cattle.
Nov. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Early Fall Birding Around St. Louis
Nov. 69	Van Benthuysen, Jack	Comments on the Don Hays article about listing in the July-August
		1969 issue of Nature Notes
Nov. 69		Report of a flock of 100 or more white pelicans on the newly formed
		Beaver Lake in Arkansas.
Nov. 69	Ulbrich, August	Those Bewick's Wrens (Thyromanes bewickii) - Activities of the wren
		about his home.
Nov. 69	Anderson, Richard	American Birding Association - More about this organization.
		See his September 1969 article above.
Nov. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Poem comparing the frog to a little bird.
Dec. 69	Meyer, Robert A.	A Trip to the North Woods (and account of birds seen)
Dec. 69	Comfort, J. Earl	Fall Birding Around St. Louis
Dec. 69	Goerner, Marie	Information about the poem comparing the frog to a little bird
		given in the Nov. 69 issue of N. N. (and a fuller text).  Turns out
		that the poem came from the Oct. 1969 issue of the South Bend
		Audubon Society.
Dec. 69	Anderson, Dick	The Purple Martin vs. the Mosquito - Data on using the purple
		martin for mosquito control.  Conclusion:  Bird is not effective
		for mosquito control, but nice to have around.
Dec. 69		St. Louis Audubon Orchard Farms-St. Charles County Christmas
		Bird Count, 8 AM, Saturday, Dec. 27.  Meet at old Boschertown
		Schoolhouse.
Dec. 69		Pere Marquette Christmas Bird Count, 8 AM, Dec. 20.  Meet
		at the Headquarters of the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge.
		Dinner in the evening at the Pere Marquette Lodge.
Dec. 69		WGNSS Busch Wildlife Area Christmas Bird Count.  Sunday,
		Dec. 28, 8 AM. Meet at the Headquarters parking lot.
PEOPLE
May. 69	Kime, Frank	Farewell (on his return to England)
May. 69	Pickering, Burrell	The Story of Sunny Ranch
Jy-Ag. 69		The birder we mentioned last month who had the hobby of the study
		of lightning identified himself as Clarence Zacher.
Sep. 69	Richardson, Marjorie	Observations on a Farm in Northern Indiana - Very interesting!
Sep.69		Rather belaatedly, we note the passing of Honorary Member Dr.
		Edgar Anderson of the Missouri Botanical Garden;
MISCELLANEOUS
Jan. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Feb. 69	Blaha, Mildred	Winter - An essay
Feb. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Mar. 69	Cope, Gladys	Off to Trinidad and Tobago.
Mar. 69		St. Louis County recently reduced its coyote/wolf bounty payments
		to twenty-five cents.  State law requires bounty payments
Mar. 69	Bauer, Paul	Your President's Corner - Various topics discussed.
Mar. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Apr. 69	Bromet, Andrew	The University of Missouri is being out a paper-back edition of
		Leonard Hall's "Stars Upstream".
Apr. 69		Paul Bauer is looking for volunteers to shepherd small groups of
		National Audubon Field Trippers through Shaw's Garden Arboretum.
Apr. 69	Cope, Gladys	Trinidad and Tobago
Apr. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
May. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Jun. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Jy-Ag. 69	Bauer, Paul	From the President's Perch - Several topics
		- Report on National Audubon meeting in St. Louis (see Ornithology
		section above)
		- Thanks to the Masons for the program they presented at the 49th
		annual banquet.
		- There are many conservation issues that beg for our support
		- WGNSS plans to increase  the scope of our yoth activities in
		the fall.
Jy-Ag. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Sep. 69	Zacher, Clarence	The Natural History of Lightning - Very comprehensive
Oct. 69	Dwyer, Robert L.	Nature's Trivia - An essay.
Oct. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces
Dec. 69	Bromet, Andrew	Bits and Pieces - A front page valedictory.
Dec. 69	Feigley, Peg	Backpacking Isle Royale (with Joel and Bertha Massie)
ADMINISTRATIVE
Jun. 69		WGNSS now boasts of a membership of 297…….
Jun. 69		The "Bird Call" Hot-Line - We have a system in effect to alert
		members when unusual birds are to be found in the area.  Several
		names listed to call.
Jy-Aug. 69		The next Board meeting (Sept. 8) will be a major fall planning
		session.  The Board would like to hear  what the general
		membership would like to see and do, and we are wide open to
		hear and discuss your suggestions.  Sound off!
Jy-Ag. 69	Editor	We still want to break out of the heavy concentration on birds and
		birding.  As an example, it's been a long time since we've had an
		article on trees of the area--and there are lots of them around.  How
		many varieties locally?  Is there anything unique?  What changes
		have taken place over the years?  Much to be told!
Dec. 69		The Nominating Committee, consisting of Bertha Massie, Kathryn
		Arhos, and Paul Bauer, has proposed the following slate for
		voting on at the Dec. 5 meeting:
		President - James Comfort
		1 st. V. P - Margaret Feigley
		2nd V. P. - William Brush (also to serve as Curator of Property)
		Secretary - Jeanine Delgman
		Treasurer - Richard Anderson
		Editor - Kay Mueller
		Botany Chairman - Edgar Denison
		History - Frances Pickel
		Museum - Paul Bauer
		Conservation - Burrell Pickering
		Ornithology - George Barker
MEETINGS
Jan. 69		WGNSS Nature Adventure - 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 20, at the St.
		Louis County Headquarters, 1640 South Lindbergh.  Fr. Gerald,
		Graduate Fellow in Biology at St. Louis U., will speak on "Vocal
		Behavior Studies of Birds".
Mar. 69		WGNSS Nature Adventure Meeting, 8 PM, Friday, March 14 at
		Zoo, will present a color movie of  a recent avian collecting trip to
		will present a color movie of a recent avian collecing trip to
		Antarctica.
Sep. 69		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, Sept. 12, at the
		St. Louis County Library, 1640 S. Lindbergh.  Mary Wiese will
		take us on a color-slide tour titled"Wildlife Safari through East
		Africa".
Oct. 69		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, Oct. 10, at the
		St. Louis County Library, 1640 S. Lindbergh.  Ed Orleb, Elementary
		Science Consultant for the St. Louis Public School System, will
		present a color slide program "Tropical Rainforest Ecology".
Nov. 69		WGNSS Monthly Adventure Indoors, 8 PM, Friday, Dec. 5, at
		the St. Louis County Library, 1640 S. Lindbergh.  The Massies
		will take us "Off the Beaten Track in Japan".
BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS
Jan. 69		The tentative date for the annual dinner this year is April 12.  Save
		the date.
Feb. 69		The annual dinner celebrating the 49th Anniversary of the founding
		of WGNSS will be held on Saturday, April 12, in the Garden Room
		at the Carpenters' Union Hall, 1401 Hampton Ave.  Lee and Edward
		Mason will take us on a sailing journey through the Virgin Islands
		with a slide program titled "Windjammer Holiday".
Mar. 69		Reminder of Annual Dinner on April 12.
Apr. 69		Reminder of the Annual Dinner on April 12.
May. 69		WGNSS Family Picnic at Pickering's Sunny Ranch.  All Day,
		Sunday, May 18,
Jun. 69		Berryman Trail in the Clark National Forest -  Saturday and Sunday,
		June 7 & 8.  A weekend of camping, hiking, nature and good
		fellowship with Edgar Denison
Oct. 69		WGNSS Family Picnic at Pickering's Sunny Ranch, All day.
Oct. 69		As a reminder, next year WGNSS celebrates it's Golden
		Anniversary.  Big plans are in the works by the History Committee.
Dec. 69		Third Annual Christmas Party - 7:30 PM, Saturday, Dec. 6, at the
		home of Mr. & Mrs. Bill Brush, 3114 Longfellow Ave., St. Louis.