NATURE NOTES - 1993
BOTANY
Jan. 93	Darigo, Carl	Fall Botanizing - Sept.-Nov., 1992
Jan. 93		Bats Control Pests, Pollinate Plants
Feb. 93	Darigo, Carl	Botany Group Christmas Luncheon:  Betty Nellums handled
		arrangements; Father Sullivan presented card of appreciation and
		insect book; Edgar Denison reviewed Missouri's oak hybrids
Apr. 93	Darigo, Carl	Winter Botanizing - Dec.-Feb., 1992/93
Apr. 93		Jack Harris will become new Botany Chairman
May. 93	Darigo, Carl	The Botany Group expresses thanks to Betty Nellums for an
		excellent job during her three year tenure as Botany Group Chair.
Jun. 93	Nellums, Betty and	Plant Puzzle:  Crossword puzzle based on plants; with picture
	McCormack, Anne
Sep. 93	Darigo, Carl	Spring Botanizing - March-May, 1993
Nov. 93		Botany Group Luncheon (on Dec. 9, at Damon's Restaurant on
		South Lindbergh)
Dec. 93		Botany Group annual luncheon (on Dec. 9 at Damon's
		Restaurant on South Lindbergh)
CONSERVATION
Jan. 93		The Green Scene:  Opinion survey regarding public's attitude
		toward environmentalism
Jun. 93	Gustafson, Sue	Don't be a litterbug!   Help clean-up WGNSS's part of I-44 near
		Antire Road on June 19.
Oct. 93	Gustafson, Sue	Fall Highway Clean-up, on Oct. 31, on WGNSS's
		part of I-44 near Antire Road
Nov. 93	Gustafson, Sue	Fall Highway Clean-up, on Oct. 31.
ENTOMOLOGY
Jun. 93		Butterfly Count:  Participation invited in the North American
		Butterfly Association's nationwide butterfly count in June.  This
		will be the first large-scale survey of butterflies in Missouri's
		history.
Oct. 93	Christensen, John R.	Antlions and doodlebugs
ORNITHOLOGY
Jan. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	November Birding in the St. Louis Area
Jan. 93	Laffey, Ralph W.	The Perapitectic Ovenbird
Feb. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	February Birding in the St. Louis Area
Mar. 93	McCormack, Anne	Birding in South Texas
Mar. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	January Birding in the St. Louis Area
Mar. 93	Korotev, Randy	Report on Orchard Farm Christmas Bird Count
Apr. 93	Wiese, Mary	February 6, 1993:  Birding on Sanibel Island
Apr. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	February Birding in the St. Louis Area
Apr. 93	Wuestenfeld, Helen	The High Importance of Census Taking:  Mark Twain Wildlife
		Refuge has requested assistance in doing a thorough census
		at Swan Lake, Gilbert Lake and Batchtown Refuges
May. 93	McCormack, Anne	Big Day or Bigger Day?  A major nation-wide census of birds
		is scheduled the same day as WGNSS's Big Day
May. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	March Birding in the St. Louis Area
May. 93	McCormack, Anne	View from the Armchair:  Review of A North American Birder's
		Year, by Pete Dunne.
Jun. 93	McCormack, Anne	Big Day Results.  Sightings by the ten participating groups;
		composite list of species sighted included in article.
Jun. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	April Birding in the St. Louis Area
Jun. 93		The construction of a viewing platform at Riverlands has
		received tentative approval.  This is a joint project of WGNSS,
		St. Louis Audubon, and the Army Corps of Engineers.  WGNSS's
		share of the cost will be about $1200.
Jun. 93	Bauer, Paul	Letter to the Editor:  The national Big Bird Day need not interfere
		with the WGNSS Big Day, the concern expressed in
		Anne McCormack's May 93 article in Nature Notes.  Suggestions
		for avoiding a conflict.
Sep. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	Late Spring and Summer Birding in the St. Louis Area
Sep. 93	Korotev, Randy	The Case of the Late Yellow-rumped Warblers:  They're
		later than usual this spring.  Several statistical graphs accompany
		the article.
Oct. 93	Anderson, Dick	Changes in the AOU Checklist:  Only two of the changes
		affect the St. Louis area.
Oct. 93	Rowe, Bill	View from the Armchair.  Review of the Handbook of North
		American Birds, ed. Ralph S. Palmer, Vols. 4 and 5, Diurnal
		Raptors, Yale University Press, 1988
Oct. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	August birding in the St. Louis Area
Oct. 93		Audubon Society of Missouri Seeks Members
Nov. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	September Birding in the St. Louis Area
Dec. 93	VanBenthuysen, Jack	Floods of 1993 & Nesting Birds of Eastern St. Charles County
Dec. 93	Richardson, Marjorie	Record Day at Hawk Ridge (Nature Reserve at Duluth,
		Minnesota)
Dec. 93	McCormack, Anne	Christmas Counts:  at Busch Wildlife Area, Orchard Farm, and
		Pere Marquette Park
Dec. 93	Bodman, Rose Ann	October Birding in St. Louis
Dec. 93	McCormack, Anne	BirdChat, the computer network of the National Birding Hotline
		Cooperative
Dec.93	Butler, Byron K. (of	LBJs"  Little Brown Jobs - How to Identify Sparrows
	Guilford, CT)
PEOPLE
May. 93		Goodloe Memorial:  A bench will be installed in May by the
		City of Webster Groves in the Frederick S. Plant Bird
		Sanctuary at Jefferson and Swon as a memorial to Frances
		Goodloe.
Oct. 93	Liddell, Vivian	My Mentor, Edgar Denison:  Denison died Aug. 14.  His
		drawing for the cover of Nature Notes, submitted in 1980, graces
		the cover of this issue.
Oct. 93		Club News:  Mary Wiese, a life member, was seriously hurt when
		she was struck by a vehicle.
Oct. 93		Tragic Crash:  Five scientists killed in crash in Ecuador.  Two had
		ties to St. Louis.  Alwyn Agentry was on the staff of the
		Missouri Botanical Garden.  Ted Parker of Louisiana State
		University was known to local birders as an enthusiastic
		birder in Tower Grove Park.
Dec. 93		Mary Wiese died on November 10.
MISCELLANEOUS
Jan. 93		Naturescaping 1993:  Second Annual Symposium at Powder
		Valley
Feb. 93		Shaw Arboretum Seeks Education Volunteers:  To work at the
		Shaw Arboretum in Gray Summit
Apr. 93		Backpacker Alert--Don't Reuse Those Film Canisters--they may
		contain harmful chemicals.  Use only canisters approved for
		contact with food.
May. 93	Balsiger, Yvonne	Happy Birthday to us!  WGNSS was formally organized in 1920
		with   85 adult members and 30 children.  In 1929 a bulletin was
		printed with announcements of activities.  In February 1930 the
		bulletin was given the name Nature Notes.  495 copies of our
		bulletin were mailed this month.
Oct. 93	Wells, C. Robert	Volunteers Needed:  To receive free training to enable you to
		serve as a volunteer in Tyson's program for inner-city youth
ADMINISTRATIVE
Jan. 93		Election of Officers:  Will be held at the March general meeting.
		Betty Nellums and Yvonne Balsiger are Co-Chair of Nominating
		Committee
Feb. 93		Notice!   Notice!   Notice!   Notice!   Nature Notes has new
		appearance.  John Molyneaux and Yvonne Balsiger thanked for
		running the mimeograph machine for so long; Betty Nellums
		has offered her home for assembly.
Feb. 93		Election of Officers:  Will be held at the March general meeting.
		Betty Nellums and Yvonne Balsiger are Co-Chair of Nominating
		Committee.  Contact one of them if you'd like to volunteer.
Mar. 93		WGNSS Proposed Budget, January, 1993
Mar. 93		Nomination of Officers:  Committee of Betty Nellums, Yvonne
		Balsiger and Vivian Liddell proposed the following slate:
		President:          Blaine Ulmer
		1st V.P.:             Robert Wells
		2nd V.P.             Sue Gustafson
		Secretary            Sylvia Hosler
		Treasurer             Peggy Leonard
		Elections will be held at the March 5 general meeting
Apr. 93		ch-ch-ch-changes!  Valgard Jonsson is leaving his post as Editor.
		Anne McCormack will be the new Editor, starting with the May
		issue of Nature Notes.  Jonsson's tenure as Editor began with
		the April 1986 issue and ends with the April 1993 issue.
Apr. 93	Executive Board	Proposes several changes in the WGNSS Constitution and
		By-Laws:
		An additional membership grade, student member, is created.
		The Editor is added to the Executive Board, which shall consist
		of the officers and the three members at large.
		Members-at-Large and the Editor are appointed by the Executive
		Board
		Members-at-Large may serve only one two-year term.
		These changes were proposed at the March general meeting, to
		be voted on at the April general meeting.
Apr. 93		Jack Harris will become new Botany Chairman
May. 93		Personal:  Student of nature, avid reader, seeks new articles for
		Nature Notes.  Send to Anne McCormack
May. 93	Tisdale, Judy	Membership Renewal Time
Jun. 93	Darigo, Carl	Anne McCormack will be away and Carl Darigo will edit the
		next issue of Nature Notes
Jun. 93		Save a Tree:  WGNSS has purchased a printer that can
		use recycled paper.
Jun. 93	Tisdale, Judy	Membership Renewal Time
Sep. 93	Ulmer, Blaine	The First 100 Days, More or Less:  Expresses some
		personal concerns as second-time WGNSS of WGNSS.
		personal concerns as second-time president of WGNSS;
		Why has participation in general meetings declined so severely?
		At one time we filled the largest room at the County Library
		Headquarters, and now we use the smallest room and have
		15-20 people attending, even with prominent local or national
		speakers.  Embarrassing!
Oct. 93	McCormack, Anne	Become a famous author--for only 29 cents (the cost of a stamp)
		Submit a story to Nature Notes!
Nov. 93	McCormack, Anne	Be the first on your block (to submit an article to Nature Notes)
Dec. 93	McCormack, Anne	About Nature Notes;  Discussion of several format issues.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Mar. 93		Marshal Hedin, 1992 Scudder Scholarship recipient, will
		speak at WGNSS's March general meeting; see below.
May. 93	Balsiger, Yvonne	Scudder Scholarship:  Delbert Hutchison, a PhD candidate at
		Washington University, is the 1993 recipient of the Scudder
		Scholarship.  He will conduct field studies of the collared lizards
		in Ozark glades.
Jun. 03	Richardson, Marjorie	Reports receipt of thank you letters from two Scudder
		recipients:  one from Niels Rattenborg, 1992 recipient, and one
		from Delbert Hutchison, our 1993 recipient.
Oct. 03	Wells, C. Robert	Niels Rattenborg, 1992 recipient of the Scudder Scholarship, will
		speak at the WGNSS general meeting on Nov. 5.   See below.
MEETINGS
Jan. 93		Ken Gilberg,  President of the Missouri Mycological Society,
		will speak on "Mushrooms:  apprehension and awareness"
Feb. 93		Dr. Richard Coles, Director of Washington University's Tyson
		Research Center, will speak on "Where have all the songbirds
		gone?"
Mar. 93		Marshal Hedin, a graduate student in the Washington
		University Biology Dept., will speak on "Missouri Spiders and
		their allies:  A Caney Mountain Study".  (Marshal was the 1992
		recipient of WGNSS's Scudder Scholarship.)
Apr. 93		Owen Sexton of Washington University's Biology Dept. faculty
		will speak on "Hibernation in Reptiles:  From Missouri to the
		world."
Sep. 93	Wells, Bob	Myrmecologist to Address September WGNSS Meeting:
		Dr. James Trager, naturalist, will present a lecture about the
		Shaw Arboretum's wetlands restoration project.
Oct. 93	Wells, C. Robert	Kah Gross, field science director, will present a lecture on the
		Tyson Research Center's Field Science Program
Nov. 93	Wells, C. Robert	Meeting Features Double Bill:  Niels Raattenborg, 1992 recipient
		of the Scudder Scholarship, will report on his research on
		simulation of brown-headed cowbird parasitism in reducing
		the hatching of house sparrows.  Ellen McCallie will speak on
		"Research and Living Things in the Flooded Forests of the
		Amazon."
Dec. 93	Wells, Bob	Natural Historian to Speak at Joint Meeting:  Paul Nelson,
		Chief of the Natural History Program, DNR, will present a slide
		lecture on ecosystem restoration at a joint meeting of WGNSS &
		St. Louis Audubon at Powder Valley on January 6, 1994
BANQUETS/SOCIAL EVENTS
Apr. 93		Prof. Alan Templeton of the Washington University Biology Dept.
		will speak at the spring banquet on "Reintroduction of collared
		lizards into Ozark glades."
Apr. 93		Annual WGNSS Spring dinner!  At the Stupp Center in Tower
		Grove Park
May. 93		Annual WGNSS Spring dinner!  At the Stupp Center in Tower
		Grove Park.   Cost is $10 per person.
Jun. 93		Lizards and Barbecue:  A glowing report on the spring banquet
		held at Tower Grove Park on May 13.
Nov. 93	McCormack, Anne	WGNSS/Audubon Holiday Open House (on Dec. 12 in the
		Fellowship hall of the Kirkwood Presbyterian Church)
Dec. 93	Gustafson, Sue	Happy Holidays.  This year's holiday open house with the
		St. Louis Audubon Society will be held Dec. 12 in Fellowship
		Hall of the Kirkwood Presbyterian Church
		Dinner $4 per person.  Program to be announced.