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~ hk - I.A.S. Newsletter, April 1967 
MEMBERSHIP INCLINATIONS 

Illinois is an affluent state; membership enrollment in the Illinois 
Audubon Seciety should approach 25,000, rather than 2,000. Membership in 
ether organizations such as the National Audubon Society, the Nature 
Conservancy (Illinois Chapter), the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club, 
and the American Neture Study Society should be streng in Illinois. To 
cover these organizations, your editer preposes over the next few issues 
ef the NEWSLETTER, to carry a brief report on each. In this way, IAS can 
extend another service to its members, 
THE AMERICAN NATURE STUDY SOCIETY 
ANSS marked its fifty-ninth anniversary on January 2, 1967. Ina 
meeting at the University of Chicage in 1908, seme of America's great 
naturalists and teachers started ANSS. Annually ANSS meets as an affiliate 
ef the American Association for Advancement of Science. This past year at 
the AAAS meetings held in Washington, D.C., the ANSS's "Lenses on Nature" 
attracted over 400 viewers representing all walks of science and teaching, 
Nature Study," the ANSS quarterly, features articles of value te 
nature leaders, teachers, camp and school naturalists, biologists, nature 
| interpreters, ecologists, planners, and conservationists, Members alse 
jit receive the quarterly Cornell Science Leaflet, which is internationally 
recognized for its excellence, 
ati ANSS is a national organization, incorporated te promote nature study 
and conservation education, It seeks to act as a forum where persons engaged 
in nature study and interpretation may communicate ideas, and thus enhance 
the appreciation of nature by all peoples, It believes that nature study 
is an essential part of the continuing education of all citizens and hence 
should be a part of every educative process --in schools, churches, scouting, 
Mili civic and service groups, camping and recreational units, and wilderness and | 
Bhat | natural areas interpretive programs, to name a few. 
For details concerning membership write: Dr. John A. Gustafson, Treas., 
R.D. 1, Homer, New York 13077. Currently Illinois has 42 members in ANSS, 
Dr. Howard E. Weaver, University of Illinois (Champaign) served as immediate 
Ii past president; former Illinois resident, Elizabeth Blair, is secretary; 
Muriel Beuschlein, Illinois Teachers College South (Chicago) is a directer; 
and IAS NEWSLETTER editor, D, E. Wade, is president-elect, The annual 
meeting will be held this year, Dec. 26-31, in New York City, with the theme | 
devoted to ‘nature study in the inner city." The 1966 theme was "Nature | 
Study in an Urban Cuiture," | 
om EXCELLENT PUBLICATION AVAILABLE 
Talmanac Looks at Water prepared by Jonathan Pugh and Bill Ball with 
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| erder it soon. -- D.W, : | 


