NATURE NOTES - 1973
DATE	AUTHOR	TITLE
ASTRONOMY
Dec.73	Snetsinger, Phoebe	Our Spectacular Winter Sky
BOTANY
Jkan.73	Denison, Edgar	Book Review (of Missouri Wildflowers)
Jan. 73	Denison, Edgar	Slides of Midwest Flowers:  Washington University's Dept. of
		Biological Sciences is accumlating slides of wildflowers of our
		area.  I've donated nearly 700 as a starter.  Any you can
		contribute will be appreciated.
Apr. 73		Botany Field Trips:  Schedule for April
May. 73	Denison, Edgar	Botany Field Trip Outing Report to St. Francois State Park on
		April 8.
May. 73	Denison, Edgar	Field Trip to Silvermines on 14 and 15th of April
Jun. 73	Boyer, Dorothy A.	A Botanist's Romantic Dream:  Fantasized events associated
		with botanical names, such as Sweet William (reprinted from
		August 1933 Nature Notes)
Ju-Ag. 73	Boyer, Dorothy A.	A Botanist's Romantic Dream, Pt. 2
Sep. 73	Boyer, Dorothy A.	A Botanist's Romantic Dream, Pt. 3
Oct. 73	Boyer, Dorothy A.	A Botanist's Romantic Dream, Pt. 4 and conclusion
CONSERVATION
Jan. 73		Save Fern Glen: The County Planning Commission has voted
		to accept Fern Glen as a landfill site.  Write your Councilman
Feb. 73	Terpening, Mrs. Virginia	The Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory of Southern Illinois
		University is researching the Environmental Impact Statement
		concerning the Mississippi River channelization project.  If
		any WGNSS members can contribute, contact the Laboratory
Feb. 73		The Executive Board agreed to support proposals to
		designate large areas in the Crescent Lake National Wildlife
		Refuge as wilderness areas.
Apr. 73	Allen, Jeane Ann	(Letter concerning the) Irish Wilderness.  Move in Congress to
		expand eastern wilderness areas could include the Irish
		Wilderness.  How you can give your support to this movement.
Apr. 73	Symington, Stuart, Senator	Letter to Edgar Denison acknowledges his receipt of a letter
		about Missouri additions to the national wilderness system.
Sep. 73	Spener, Claudia	Wild Chicago:  Description of Chicago's Forest Preserve System,
		60,000 acres in extent, with 175 miles of designated trails and
		only 30 minutes from Downtown Chicago; deplores lack of such
		a facility in St. Louis County
Nov. 73	Shoemaker, Elmer E.	Improving The Habitat (of a 44 acre farm for wildlife)
ENTOMOLOGY
Jan. 73	Gross, Dr. Morton	The Language of Scent, Pt. 4
Feb. 73	Gross, Dr. Morton	The Language of Scent, Pt. 5
Mar. 73	Gross, Dr. Morton	The Language of Scent, Pt. 6 (the end)
Apr. 73	Denison, Edgar	MS Aphid
Jun. 73	Beerman, Clara	North American Chigger
Ju-Ag. 73	Bromet, Andy	Insecta (Hexapoda)
Nov. 73	Jackson, James P.	Interlude with a Spider
ORNITHOLOGY
Jan. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area Birding in November
Jan. 73	Kruse, Marie E	Ant-Omology (a poem)
Feb. 73	Richardson, Ann Worsham	White-Winged Crossbills (a painting, reproduced in N.N.)
Feb. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area December Birding
Feb. 73	Comfort, Earl	St. Louis Audubon Society St. Charles County Orchard  Farm
		Christmas Bird Count:  Detailed, 52 species, about 20,128
		individuals
Feb. 73	Comfort, Jim	Weldon Springs Christmas Census:  Detailed; 62 species, 5526
		individuals
Mar. 73	Triplett, Nancy	A Goshawk Visits.
Mar. 73	Spener, Claudia	New Year's Eve Canoe Float (in the Florida Everglades)
Mar. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area January Birding
Apr. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area February Birding
Apr. 73	Hallett, Vi	Sixth Annual WGNSS Bluebird Count (at Sunny Ranch)
May. 73	Balsiger, Yvonne	Prairie Chicken observations (at the Prairie Chicken Sanctuaries,
		Jasper, Illinois.)
May. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area March Birding
May. 73	Anderson, Dick	Birding Hints for Table Rock Lake
Jun. 73	Anderson, Dick	Changes to the A.O.U. Check-List
Jun. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area April Birding
Jun. 73		Meeting Places:  Comprehensive listing and description of meeting
		places now being used for bird walks
Jun. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	A Birder's Inexcusable Nightmare of Puns
Ju-Ag. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	A Birder's Inexcusable Nightmare of Puns, Pt. 2
Ju-Ag. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area May Birding
Sep. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area June and July Birds
Sep. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	A Birder's Inexcusable Nightmare of Puns, Pt. 3
Sep. 73	Nagel, Lillian	TheUninvited Guest (a black duck)
Sep. 73	Anderson, Dick	Spring Birding in Texas, Pt. 1
Sep. 73	Bromet, Andy	Latest A.O.U. Checklist name switches: One example: - Catbird
		becomes Gray Catbird
Sep. 73	Feigley, Peg	Cowbird Coralling Designed to Protect Kirtland's Warbler:
		Describes action by Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources,
		Wildlife Division, to protect Kirkland's warbler, a victim of
		cowbird parasitism.
Oct.73	Comfort, J. Earl	S. Louis Area August Birding
Oct. 73	Anderson, Dick	Spring Birding in Texas, Pt. 2
Oct. 73		Suggestion for a fall week-end:  pay a visit to the Mingo
		National Wildlife Refuge; gives much data about the refuge.
Oct. 73	Conrad, Jim	Reflections:  Of And On Some Birds
Oct. 73	Bodman, Rose Ann	(Suggestions for beginning birders; hedge a little)
Oct. 73	Blaha, Millie	From My North Carolina Nature Notebook
Oct. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	A Birder' Inexcusable Nightmare of Puns (Pt. 4)
Nov. 73	Denison, Edgar	Here Ye!!  Here Ye!! Volunteers needed to organize 300 slide
		pictures of native birds received from nature lover Perry
		Reynolds
Nov. 73	Winter, George, Jr.	Birding Scandinavia with Allen and Helen Cruickshank
Nov. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	St. Louis Area September Birding
Ded. 73	Comfort, J. Earl	Area Birding in October
Dec. 73		Kirtland's Warbler Update
Ded.73	Pickering, Burrell	1973  Bluebird Nesiting Box Study
PEOPLE
Feb. 73		Dorothy Coles ran into Ludwig and Anneli Nigel, WGNSSers who
		are returning to Germany after study at Washington University,
		while traveling in Venezuela.
Mar. 73	Steyermark, Julian	Letter to Art Christ.  Describes his acivities in Venezuela in
		considerable detail.
Mar. 73		Julian Steyermark - Botanist Par Excellence:  Article from the
		Caracas Daily Journal giving much detail abouit Steyermark's
		activiies in Venezuela.  (Steyernark was a former member of
		WGNSS and Chairman of its Botany and Geology Groups)
Mar. 73		Published by Members:  The Webster Groves Nature Study
		Society, by Dr. J. A. Steyermark, Bull. Academy of Science of
		St. Louis, Vol. ii, pp. 38-39, Oct. 1936.  (Dr. Steyermark gives
		our Society a very comprehensive write-up, in which the Museum,
		Nature Notes, and our active Junior groups are described, as
		well as the regular meetings and hikes).  Reprinted from the
		Dec. 1936 issue of Nature Notes.
May. 73		Gilbert Samuelson, co-editor with his wife Betty of Nature Notes,
		died suddenly on April 11.  The May issue of Nature Notes
		contains some biographical information about him.
Ju-Ag. 73	Bromet, Andrew	Found that author of the botany puns of 40 years (DAB) was
		Dorothy A. Boyer, a herptologist.  Also found that Julian
		Steyermark was at one time Chairman of the WGNSS Geology
		Group!
Ju-Ag. 73	Samuelson, Betty	A (thank you) Note from Our Former Co-Editor
Sep. 73		Long letter from Millie and George Blaha about their
		retirement to Cedar Mountain, Georgia
Oct. 73		A Visit with a Legend (Connie Hager, in Rockport, Texas)
Oct. 73	Hill, Helen	A  Letter from Texans Kay & Ernie Mueller (former N. N. Editors,
		who moved to Kerrville, Texas)
Oct. 73	Blaha, Millie	From My North Carolina Nature Notebook
Oct. 73		Harry Bradley, probably our oldest member both in years and
		length of membership, has moved to the Bethesda Dilworth Nursing
		Home on Big Blvd. in Kirkwood
Nov. 73		Dick Grossenheider Reproductions (available from Museum
		of Science and Natural History, Oak Knoll Park.  Grossenheider
		is our own outstanding naturalist-painter.)
Nov. 73		Falconry Regulations:  Defenders of Wildlife seek support in
		opposing institution of federal regulations for endangered and
		non-endangered raptors.
MISCELLANEOUS
Jan. 73	Shakespeare, William	Thought for the New Year
Jan. 73	Wiese, Mary	South Pacific Adventure, Pt. 2
Jan. 73	Wiese, Mary	South Pacific Adventure, Pt. 3
Mar. 73	Anderson, Dick	(Report on) 34th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, held in Des
		Moines, Dec. 10-13, 1972
Apr. 73	Wiese, Mary	South Pacific Adventure, Pt. 4 (the end)
Apr. 73	Denison, Edgar	On Being Committed (to preserve our land, flowers, our trees).
		One way is to lead nature walks for kids during spring and early
		summer.  Get involved!
Apr. 73		Photography Workshop:  The Audubon Nature Photography
		Workshop will be held the last week of April and the first week of
		May.  Many WGNSS people will be involved, and some trips will
		be to Sunny Ranch
May. 73	Self, Marge	Trekking in Nepal, Pt. 1
Jun. 73	Self, Marge	Trekking in Nepal, Pt. 2
Ju-Ag. 73	Feigley, Opeg	Weasels I Have Known--And Not Loved
Ju-Ag. 73	Self, Marge	Trekking in Nepal,Pt. 3
Sep.73	Self, Marge	Trekking in Nepal, Pt. 4 (the end)
Nov. 73	Denison, Edgar	Steel Traps in Missouri:  Text of Conservation Department's
		reply defending the continued licensing of trapping with
		with steel leg-hold traps
ADMINISTRATIVE
Jan. 73		New Members (6 total)
Feb. 73		We Welcome the Following New Members to WGNSS (9 total)
Feb. 73		The Nominating Committee of Art Christ, Lillian Nagel, and
		Kahryn Arhos has produced the following slate of candidates to be
		voted on at the March meeting:
		President - Floyd Hallett
		1st V.P. - Edgar Denison
		2nd V.P. - Rose Ann Bodman
		Secretary - Nell Menke
		Treasurer - Sallie Phillips
		Editor - Andy Bromet
Feb. 73		1973 Dues Were Payable Jan. 1
Mar. 73		We Welcome the Following New Members to WGNSS (9 total)
Apr. 73		We Welcome the Following New Members to WGNSS (19 total)
May. 73		The May issue of Natures was intended by co-Editors Betty and
		Gilbert Samuelson to be a special one, as their last issue before
		turning the office over to a new editor   But Gilbert died suddenly
		on April 11.  He had just completed a "retirement" statement for
		Nature Notes before his death, and the statement is printed in
		this issue.  (The Gilberts had been editors for "more than two
		years'.)
May. 73		A hearty welcome to the new members of WGNSS (10 total)
Jun. 73		Welcome New Members (7 total)
Jun. 73		Coming with the next issue of Nature Notes:  A questionnaire
		about possible new interest groups and organizational ideas.
Sep. 73		A hearty handshake and a pat on the back to several new
		members (11 total, including Mr. & Mrs. Albert Heinze)
Nov. 73		The Areas of interest questionnaires mailed out in October are a
		little slow in finding their way back to us
Nov. 73		Webster Groves Nature Study Society--(Estab. 1920):  We are a
		loosely knit 400 member organization of nature buffs……
MEETINGS
Jan. 73		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 12, County
		Library, 1640 S. Lindbergh.  Elmer Headlee presents
		"Rockhounds in the Woods".
Feb. 73		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Feb. 9, at County
		Library.  The Blahas will present "A Year at Sunny Ranch".
Mar. 73		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, County Library
		Program will be "The Plant Kingdom, An Overview", by L. Nagel
		and M. Feigley
May. 73		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 8 PM, Friday, May 11 at
		County Library.  Program will be "From a Rugged Land Comes a
		Rugged People--The Laplanders of Finnmark", presented
		by Betsy Blackwelder
Sep.73		WGNSS Indoor Nature Adventure, 89 PM, Friday, Sept. 14.
		at St. Louis County Library.  Milton T. Bodman will talk on
		"Wood Destroying Insects".)  Not listed in the Sept. issue of
		Nature Notes but on a loose insert in this issue..
Oct. 73		WGNSS Meeting and Indoor Nature, 8 PM, Friday, Oct. 12, at
		County Library.  Mr. Jay Gore, Wildlife Biologist, will give an
		illustrated talk on "Introducing Wildlife Near Man-made Lakes
		in Illinois".
Nov. 73		WGNSS Meeting and Indoor Program, 8 PM, Friday, Nov. 9, at
		St. Louis County Library.  The program will be:  Conservation Issues
		in Missouri, and experts will present short illustrated talks on the
		current major issues.
BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS
Feb. 73		White-Christmas Party:  Report on the Dec. 15 WGNSS party
		at the Massie's
Feb. 73		The Annual Spring Banquet, at which officers are installed, will
		be held again at Heritage House, 3612 S. Lindbergh, on Friday,
		April 12.  The after dinner program will be presented by the
		Massies:  "Trek in Kashmir"
Apr. 73		The WGNSS Picnic at Sunny Ranch will be on May 6.  Details
		next month.
Apr. 73		WGNSS Annual Banquet and Installation of Officers, Heritage
		House, 3612 S. Lindbergh, on Friday, April 27.  The Massies will
		present "Trek in Kashmir".
May. 73		Spring WGNSS Pickering Picnic, Sunday, May 6, 10 AM
Oct. 73		WGNSS Sunny Creek Ranch Picnic, Sunday, 10 AM, Oct. 21