News Notes 



News Editor - Cora A. Smith, 

 817 Poplar St., Erie, Pa. 



ST. LOUIS 



At the eleventh annual meeting of the St. Louis Section of the American 

 Nature Study Society held September 17, 1920, the following persons were 

 chosen to be the officers for the ensuing year: President, H. C. Drayer, 

 Principal Jackson School; Director, B. G. Shackelford, Principal Byran 

 Mullanphy School; Secretary-Treasurer, J. A. Drushel, Harris Teachers Col- 

 lege, ; members of the executive committee Miss Amelia Meissner, Curator of 

 the Public School Museum, and Dr. Margaret E. Noonan, Harris Teachers' 

 College. 



The secretary in summing up the Section's activities during the year stated 

 that nine meetings were held : six field meetings, one annual meeting, one night 

 meeting for star study, and one luncheon meeting at the City Club in honor of 

 Liberty Hyde Bailey. 



The membership roll for the year consists of one hundred ninety-two names, 

 twenty-seven of which are new. The secretary also announced that more than 

 forty per cent of the present members have been with the Section for seven or 

 more consecutive years ; also that during the ten years' existence of the Section, 

 eighty-five meetings had been held. 



The following is the announcement of a field trip attended by fifty-two 

 persons. 



WEBSTER GROVES TRIP — SEPT. l8, I92O, (87th MEETING) 



The autumn flowering plants are at their best now due to the recent rains and 

 the continued warm weather. To take advantage of this condition, it is pro- 

 posed to study a small priarie society containing a relatively large number of 

 species near Webster. Take Meramec Highlands car (Manchester line)and 

 get off at Algonquin (near Jackson Road and Lock wood Ave.) about twenty 

 minute's ride from Maplewood. Those going should plan to reach Algonquin 

 at ten o'clcok. 



The time before lunch will be spent in a study of the region above named. 

 The following plants among others can be found in bloom or in fruit : prairie 

 sunflower, Jerusalem artichoke, heliopsis, rudbeckia, purple cone flower, 

 coreopsis (three species), bidens (three species), silphium (three species), blaz- 

 ing star, two asters, four golden rods, wild lettuce (two species), rattlesnake 

 master, iron weed, boneset, white snakeroot, prairie ragweed, thistle, oaks 

 (five species) , wild sunflower (two species), diodia, desmodium (tick trefoil three 

 species), bush clover (two species), wild false foxglove, evening primrose, 

 gaura, wild four o'clock, spurge (three species), croton (three species), wild 

 ground cherry (two species), violets with cleistogamous flowers and fruit, 

 Indian tobacco, partridge pea, rattle box, oxalis. Skinner's gerardia, agrimony, 

 sweet clover, burdock, wild parsnip, water hemlock, cowbane, monarda, 

 mountain mint, penstemon. There are sixty-eight species in this list. It is 

 suggested that you bring it with you and check those species you see. 



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