| NATURE NOTES - 1977 | ||
| DATE | AUTHOR | TITLE |
| BOTANY | ||
| Jan. 77 | Christ, Art | Holly (Ilex) |
| Feb. 77 | Denison, Edgar | The Thistle That Isn't (with illustration) |
| Feb. 77 | Christ, Art | Mistletoe (Phoradendron) |
| Feb. 77 | Edgar Denison will teach a short course in wildflower | |
| identification at Meramec Junior College. | ||
| Mar. 77 | Christ, Art | Prairie Willow (Salix Humilis) |
| Apr. 77 | Christ, Art | Pale Corydalis (Coydalis Flavula) |
| May. 77 | Christ, Art | False Indigo (Baptisia) |
| Sep. 77 | Christ, Art | Plants of the Unglaciated Prairies of Western Missouri: Report on |
| a study by group consisting of Betty Nellums, Nell Menke, Father | ||
| Sullivan, John Molyneaux, and Christ | ||
| Oct. 77 | Christ, Art | Sweet Everlasting (Gnaphalium Obtusifolium) |
| Nov. 77 | Christ, Art | Rare Goldenrod Found in Jefferson County |
| Nov. 77 | Christ, Art | Persimmon (Diospyros Virginiana) |
| Dec. 77 | Christ, Art | Papaw (Asimina Triloba) |
| Dec. 77 | Denison, Edgar | Plants as Mineral Indicators |
| CONSERVATION | ||
| Jan. 77 | Spener, Claudia | Mingo, Missouri's Remnant of the Deep South |
| Jan. 77 | In Support of Wilderness Preservation in Missouri - Missouri | |
| Wilderness Prints (available at Webster Groves Book Shop) | ||
| Feb. 77 | Heinze, D. B. | Mastodon Park Update |
| Sep. 77 | Heinze, Dorothy B. | Mastodon Park Committee Progress Report |
| ORNITHOLOGY | ||
| Jan. 77 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area November Birding |
| Feb. 77 | Thanks to participants in the Christmas counts sponsored by | |
| WGNSS, and to Rose Ann Bodman and Phoebe Snetsinger | ||
| who coordinated and compiled the data: A record 68 species | ||
| Feb. 77 | Comfort, J. Earl | St. Louis Area December Birding |
| Feb. 77 | Wuestenfeld, Helen | Highlights of Pere Marquette State Park Bird Count |
| Feb. 77 | WGNSS has reservations for 15 people to observe the booming | |
| of prairie chickens near Newton, Illinois on April 5. | ||
| Mar. 77 | Anderson, Dick | Thirth-Third Supplement to the A.O.U. Check-List |
| Mar. 77 | Comfort, J. Earl | January Birding |
| Mar. 77 | Comfort, Earl | The 200 Club: Joey Eades led the birders with 268 "5th edition" |
| birds. | ||
| Mar. 77 | Jones, David M. | What Oil Spills Do to Birds |
| Apr. 77 | Comfort, James Earl/Bodman, | St. Louis Area February Birding (started by Comfort and |
| Rose Ann | finished by Rose Ann Bodman after he died) | |
| May. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | March Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| May. 77 | Jones, David M. | The Female Barrow's Goldeneye (details of the sighting, |
| a first for the St. Louis area. | ||
| Jun. 77 | Hallett, Diana | Bachman's Sparrow in Southern Missouri |
| Sep. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | St. Louis Area Birding |
| Oct. 77 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Bird Safari in Kenya - Pt. 1 |
| Oct. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | August Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Oct. 77 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Birding Tips for October |
| Nov.77 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Bird Safari in Kenya - Pt. 2 |
| Nov. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | September Birding in the St. Louis Area |
| Nov. 77 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Birding Tips for November |
| Dec. 77 | 1977-1978 Christmas Bird Count (rules therefor) | |
| Dec. 77 | (Spener?), Claudia | Confessions of a Birdaholic |
| Dec. 77 | Goodloe, M. F. | Hawk Ridge, Minnesota, October 4-6, 1977 |
| PEOPLE | ||
| Mar. 77 | Editor | Earl Comfort passed away on Feb. 20, 1977. He had been a |
| member of WGNSS since 1940, and his first signed column | ||
| was printed in May, 1941 Nature Notes | ||
| Apr. 77 | Anderson, Dick | Tribute to a Guru (J. Earl Comfort): Reprinted from Nature Notes of |
| January, 1968. | ||
| Apr. 77 | Snetsinger, Phoebe | Memories of Earl |
| Apr. 77 | Neilson, Janet | Earl (a poem) |
| Apr. 77 | Grumman, Susan | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Gaddy, Martha | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Jones, David M. | Earl Comfort's "best listings" in the St. Louis area. |
| Apr. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Vogel, Dorothea | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Jackson, James P. | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Wiese, Mary | (Tribute to Earl) |
| Apr. 77 | Bolinger, Alberta | (Tribute to Earl) |
| May. 77 | Feigley, Peg | Nostalgic Journey: Canoe trip on the Presque Isle River and |
| memories of canoeing here in her youth. | ||
| Sep. 77 | Jones, Dave | James F. Comfort Memorial: Carl R. Noren, Director of |
| the Missouri Dept. of Conservation, approved the establishment | ||
| of a nature study area in Busch Wildlife in memory of James | ||
| F. Comfort, to be erected by the Audubon Society of | ||
| Missouri and the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. | ||
| INDEXER'S NOTE: James F. (Jim) Comfort was the brother | ||
| of J. Earl Comfort. Jim Comfort was killed at Busch Wildlife while | ||
| birding on Dec. 17, 1975, when his pick-up truck, apparently not | ||
| left in "park", rolled over him. See Nature Notes, Feb. 76, p. 9. | ||
| Nov. 77 | Documentation of Extraordinary Bird Sightings: Form for. | |
| Nov. 77 | Pickering, Burrell | The 1977 Bluebird Nesting Box Survey at Sunny Ranch, data for |
| 1972 thru 1977 | ||
| Dec. 77 | Bodman, Rose Ann | St. Louis Area October Birding |
| ADMINISTRATIVE | ||
| Mar. 77 | WGNSS Nominating Committee: The committee, composed of | |
| Walter Liddell, Nell Menke and Betty Nellums has nominated | ||
| the following slate of officers: | ||
| President - Tom Brooks | ||
| 1st V.P. - Karen Haller | ||
| 2nd V.P. - Blaine Ulmer | ||
| Secretary - Pat McCormick | ||
| Treasurer - Sylvia Hosler | ||
| Sep. 77 | We welcome the following new WGNSS members (11 total) | |
| Dec. 77 | W.G.N.S.S. New Members (16 total) | |
| MEETINGS | ||
| Jan. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Jan. 14, at St. Louis | |
| County Library, Lindbergh and Clayton. Marshall Magner will | ||
| talk about "Insects". | ||
| Feb. 77 | WGNSS general meeting,8 PM, Friday, Feb. 11, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Mike Gasparovic, St. Louis County Park | ||
| ranger, will present a slide program on birds, botany and nature | ||
| photography. | ||
| Mar. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, March 11, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Speaker will be Diana Hallett (daughter of Vi and | ||
| Floyd Hallet), who will speak on the subject: "Ecology of the | ||
| Coyote in Missouri". | ||
| May. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, May 13, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Hugh Null, Manager of the Calhoun County | ||
| section of the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge, will talk about | ||
| his experiences as a bird bander in Canada during the summer of | ||
| 1976, | ||
| Sep. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Sept. 9, St. Louis | |
| County Library. Program will be a slide presentation on New | ||
| England by Carolyn Trice, an American Airlines "Kiwi". | ||
| Oct. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Oct. 14, St. Louis | |
| County Library. David Bedan of the Sierra Club and the Coalition | ||
| for the Environment will present a slide-tape show on the | ||
| Mississippi River. | ||
| Nov. 77 | WGNSS general meeting, 8 PM, Friday, Nov. 11, St. Louis County | |
| Library. Bertha and Joel Massie will talk about "Sri Lanka - | ||
| Ancient Cities, Birds, and Mountains." | ||
| BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS | ||
| Mar. 77 | WGNSS Annual Banquet, Heritage House, 3612 South | |
| Lindbergh, Friday, April 15, 1977. Walter Liddell will present a | ||
| program entitled "Ecuador and The Galapagos" | ||
| Apr. 77 | WGNSS Annual Banquet; same information as above. | |
| May. 77 | Spring Outing at the Pickerings Sunny Ranch, Sunday, May 8. | |
| Dec. 77 | WGNSS Christmas Party, Friday, Dec. 9, 8 PM. At home of | |
| Mary Frances and Allan Goodloe, 108 S. Rock Hill Road | ||