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helped build a miniature Volo bog for display at the recent Modern Living 
Exposition Home and Garden show held on Navy Pier in Chicago, and 
manned the booth for five nights and four days. 
One of Karl’s other interests is nature photography. At present he has 
more than 2,100 slides of plants of 275 species, and it is his ambition to 
record all of the approximately 2,000 flowering plants of the Chicago area 
in color. He also photographs birds. With his pictures he has prepared 
seven lectures which he gives to garden, nature, and other clubs. 
Karl has been honored in the botanical field by having a plant named 
after him. A white-flowered form of Liatris, it was found by Karl north- 
west of Gary, Ind., in 1953, and observed again in 1955. The holotype is 
in the Chicago Natural History Museum herbarium. It is Liatris cylindra- 
cea Michx., forma Bartelli, technically described as “a varietate cylindra- 
cea recedit floribus albidis.”” When he has time Karl spends evenings build- 
ing banding traps. It is his ambition to be able some day to spend all his 
daylight hours in bird banding and photography. 
Fl ft ia 
The I.A.8S. Fall Campouts 
By THEODORE R. GREER 
THE CAMPOUT FOR 1957 was held at Olney, Ill., on October 12 and 13. We 
had excellent weather for the event. Twenty-five registered for the after- 
noon hikes; 32 were present for the evening meeting. The program was 
most enjoyable, including slides of various nature subjects. The Olney 
folks had gone to considerable trouble to make the meeting interesting. 
Tables contained mounted birds, nests and eggs as well as books and other 
literature on bird study. A most enjoyable afternoon was spent visiting the 
home of Robert Ridgway and his burial place. It is most appropriate that 
he rests amid the beautiful woods he loved so well. Later we tramped 
through the woods and meadows where he had so often hiked and found 
better than fifty varieties of birds. Sunday afternoon another hike went to 
the lake at Red Hills Park. The lake had much to offer in beauty. 
If you somehow failed to make the 1957 Campout, now is the time to 
plan on attending the 1958 event which will be sponsored by the Tri-City 
Bird Club. This will be held on September 20 and 21. Tentative plans are 
being made to meet at the Y.W.C.A. camp “Archie Allen” just above the 
Tri-Cities. A worthwhile program is being planned for Saturday evening. 
A formal invitation will be extended to the Iowa Ornithological Society 
members to join us in this Campout. 
Excellent birding territory is available. River Lock 13 offers splendid 
sites for bird study as well as Thompson further up. Perhaps the folks 
from the Chicago area could continue from this jaunt to their home. Pos- 
sibly a trip to the Joy area may be scheduled where pileated woodpeckers 
are found. Remember the dates and plan on being with us. 
Enchanted Hill Garden, Joy, Ill. 
