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OFNC Newsletter No. 12 – November 15, 1951 b. ~ctin~Editor: Elsie Graves 95 Sunnysi.de Ave , Te lephona e 4-4526 fhber 22 -M ., ,,. Kovember 15, 1951 " ,7'>"7, '- L .,-,: z. 8 "m- .,b,,'-$-% , I L*lt"i. h . " 3t.L : A$ &LING PORSILD, ~I.B.E., F.R.S.C. Ottaxa Field,-14aturalistst Club Denmark, on the 17th January, 1901, educated in Greenhd and-Dema arctic plant geography and taxa of grazing surveys and the first and seco ciencs Corference hcl.iJ ?,t l/Tashington, DOC, and lifcfcinley National Park, Alaska. - -*, Mr. Porsild has s~enteleven winters and thirteen swmers in Greenland, and during his twenty-f ive years bf Dominion Government service he has travelled widely in the North American ~.r:tic, whare, in all, he has spent seven winters and fifteen summers, In addition, he has made a number of visits to England ,' Nomay, Sweden, Desrmark, Finland ,* Germany, Austria, and France, as ?rve-ll as to the United States, and in 1945 travelled t'nrough Siberia and Russia, In the course of his travels abroad he visited nearly all the leading herbaria possessing important ections of arctic or boreal plants, pi,q~iGl.iA!. Mij51.UM5 OF CAFI'AOfi I M~~i~~P~GTI~~~~~uXDd CAO4ADA LIBRARY - ~IBL~QTI-~~Q~JE From his nany field trip to arctic and subartic regions Rr. Porslld has brough back a wealth of information on arc-tic plants and more than 25,000 collections of plants aggregating well over 100,000 herbarium specimns , a* Besides a voluii on the flora of the Yukon, he has writtsn som 70 papers including some of book length, chiefly on arctic plan.eoo- graphy and taxsnorn;r, .- . -c.*.." -' 0 % .. ., . Honorary Fellows American Academy of msand Scie$es+,-_._* -,--+-.--. i' -- I' I '~61ILow; Royal Society of Canada; Xew England Botanical * L*. , "+__u-A,-- , " ., ,' 41._.. .. _ - .,., Club; Arctic Institute of Morth"Amq@cai ,, . American Association for the Advancement of i: " ". , i.. i a t. * ''" . Science - . .i ,.-. ' .b 41 - < - '.-~orrds~ondin~ Nember: Socf etas pro Flora 6% FELU~LI I Ferinica; Societas Zoolagicz et Botanica Vanamo. , I t , 2:. * ,* , I * *>: , >L A "7 A t*.5~..- , :52- ;:t,$l." .- %i;&*&, "); i-y~*,? ,- t , * , L " '*'-'6k;;'"torsi;ld--is-a past-pmsident. of th5 Ottawa Field- &,. ' . - Patu~aUstsrclub and chainnaf of the Publications cordnittee. He isa, : - pat-president of ' the Arctic Circle and rnernbgr of ' the comaittea$ he is a * ' rrrsmber of the Advisozy Board on 1'lif.d Ijfe Eanagement; a governor of the' -:: . Arctic Institute of North America, and a niember of the publications . c cormrrf.ttea, pf the<:hstitute. - *. 4 %$ :.I a: 1 ,. 3 1 ~* =2 'i" * ..- - .,.:, - -- - * -* . "3. 33 :.z."*., '. I r- - 8- 1 Ls & >. i* LI ' " *. L\. a :ah-' *.-:a"..~ .:'. b- * -,; ,7,*5j+3 ~< .* #-J ... - - 6. 2 t:4 .. i v . :I,TS :a, .,,:: 'L ~";I~~~~~~~~~; -, - I , xc:' .+. ,. A-l -.-I... ", - . :-"~3 3 . , , , "2"". ; %>. ++ 1 .'."*t' L7**'t; : -, t*y :; " : 2 -. .~. - me fourth series of ~udubowS'ci;~!ei'i %urs Tor Ottawa Q! < owned on, Monday October 15 with Allan D. Cruickshank lecturing on his film 'Tails for: ~llions** a'; rna~nificedt~colour pict~bof birds; animals, P.." P.." -' *. plants et-c,,.--vL all.- phot~gra-phedrbybe." Cruick&ank:witfiirr an h6yrt s drive of- -i' " if,( . "'*! 2 r ., - ''me 'V .. < -x ,,. .;,- 4- ,-.-, + * , 4 .'* la-: yk,;x<y< -" %w' Pork Ci't y. .--.* w - " , $8< , ' ; - " "' ." + .i' ~1 . -".,: +:.' .La4 - . it ',-f<,t\ , ).' - . rJg & - ?.YL :, -- :; A+ :. 1.. +ir, r ...., Xi:.. ~&tkndadce~;t &is lecture wkq &bout 850 whicd.is.bve~-2-- 330 pop& %ss' than ittended the f Frst lecture-a' year?ago. ' It is e?g&sted- that all members of the club continue'to vigorxxily advertise AuduEbn Screen Twrs "c ocqlrisstancss and 7henev;r possible to .urge the purchase of seasbn tLcke.ts at the reduced rate of $2.00 for the four remaining lectures as " - ._ -. listed belawt * . ' 2 \* LS 1) Saturday ~~ovember24, 1951 Bert Harvvell "Canada IJolrtI-rn *- - * ~ : 2) lbnday January 7, 1952 -- Carl iYr Buchheister* uiTild Life Dolim 'East" " 3) Tugsday February 26, 195'2 Fran imiUam Hall "3 Four Corners" b) Thursday LIarch 27, 1952 Howard Cleaves "Animals Unslwaren I I -3- LTACOUN FIELD CLUB ram A busy autumn season is now uider way in all three groups of the bhcoun Neld Club, John Smith, Leigh Smith and Nette Porsild welcomed the members of their groups to the first metings ats the begL11lzi.n~ of October, Each group was enlarged by a number of* promotions as well as some newcomers, On their Saturday morning excursions the High School Group has been studying the aquatic Ufe of their project area around the Ckampba%s Bridge. A large collection of specimens was broughk back for identificatian at %heir Tuesday afternoon rneeting,u;rith the help of &.Bonsf ield, - Qbservat- ions on birds and all wild3ife continue to$,grow, Exhibits of special inter@& have been well displayed by members of the Middle and' ~dorGroups, bfembrs of these two groups of appropriate size and shape also assisted Dr, Leechman in the Saturday Morning 'Programme when they,.dressep up as Eskimos in real. i , . Eskislo clothes, .", , .& u - . $ -;: . - - .. i \,r 3 * 3* . .--- I a- I 1% "L ~ 1Jelilbers of all are preparing rnatad;~ for renikt issue of "The Little Bear" - the club magazine, &, bfaddox has been busy gathering news and observations by the members. He has been particularPy impressed by I their wide spread sumrm r wanderings. duced one unusual.- or even rare collection. + 'Ihe little mse and green Phallogaster saccatus krg., a primitive stinkhorn, was the ''findt' one day. Another day it was the rare 1 column-shaped discomycete, Underwoodia columnaris Pk., which has never bean reported from the Ottawa district but should be looked for here. i It was found grdwing along a shady roadside, among strawberry plants and I poison ivy, I Another unusual species ye$ to be f oWd in the Ottawa area is the curious Phylloporus rhodoxanthus (~ch;r.) Bres. - a Bolete with gills instead of pores. It was not uncommon in Northern Michigan this summer, The Boletes were especially abundant and, in all, twenty-six differerk specieSr31ve,re collectedg including several which are not comon, at least around ~tta&,notably Be bicolor Pk., 'B. russellii Frost, B, retipes B, & C., and B. graciklis Pk. ldost colourful of the Soletes -collected was Boletus chromapes Frost, ~Lthits rose-coloured cap and golden yelluw stipe base. - Among the true mushroom, the beautiful salman-pink - leur rot us subp'alinatus Fr. was the prize find of the -summer, When I returned - to UttawabI was surprised: tb- learn 'that this rare plant was also collected -.. -* ' this' smer.at'Bbach Lake; Quebec, by Dr. -Groves, - & ,T " - ' - (2 . 3 !:3-", - 1 3 - * '_ "- b - - blieve,: tha% .most or" my companions- of the summer returned hone with a rather ' dismaVpf c%&re of the xet Xorthern summer. I@, ifnp~ession, however, is a very pleasarrt one of woods teeming- with fungi- - stately Amanitas d fat' little-~ol~tes, scarlet and yellox and grsen Hggrophori , la&nder- 11e d ~ortihrii-,fragrant L~hantarelles and ill--smell s, curious arth-sta$sl ad' a host of other fascinating plants ; + I - . -,*A -JAL' - ..%5:> s -* .. I I - . 2 L ' <, 6 . I *. h -$:J A e : . *,,+, . ' " 2 ' * .' I. - " E;IAI;7K- ?pfOUf\lTA * Dr. and Sarile ac -.e',dslt to* ~awk'idduntain San&%ary, - near Keztpton,. Pa., in late October. The . .'- +arty was,fom&&te- in ha'vi?ig an excellent hawk '-flight on October; 25', :.f 01-1 fovdng a: strirhg"$oid froneths p&iiious:'night ,'SzThs count .of ~aptores~that day was: 2 Goshawks, 221 Sharpshins, 5 Cooper's Hawks, 116 Red-tails, 8 Eed--ahoddera,..3 Golden Zagles, 1 Bald Eagle, 8 Marsh Harriers, 1 Osprey, L ~ere~rfniFal'con, 4' Sparrovs Hawks and the, considerable local population of !Turkey Vultures, not to mention countkss other birds. A shall, flight occured on Oc.f;obr 23 and a considerable one on October 26, including 59 Sharp'shins, 45 Red-tails and 24 Red-shoulders,-... .+y. m Zxcellent birding was to be had in the district on dafs'wh'en hawks. were hot flying. On the one ia real lyJwet afLsrnoon we succumbed to the hospitality of Ua &OU~ and birde-d in style *from the back verandah 'of Scha . " ., . -. t , 1"- TP,~Xawk ;Zountain Sanctuarj Association, under the dynaiiic leadersfip of ;>,frs,C, TJ, Edge and excellent curatorship of hlaurice Brozzn, is a' signal service in protecting hawks - many of them our breeding birds: - from persecution, in education' of the public in conservat- ion, and -in providing a perfect place for studyi7ng hawks. The association needs funds to increase its staff and facilities and thoroughly deserves our support,, . .. - 8: . -r - 4 D. B, 0. S.-. r. .~:>? 8 - - TREE STUDY G?.OlTP Dr. Alcock, curator of the ITational Nuseun of Canada, has again extended to the group the use of a room in the musz~~nand it is planned to qeet there on the second and fo-mth Mondays of each month through- out the minter, under the leadership of &, H, Rl~odesof the Division of : Botany. -I _ As a study project for this year, the group glans ta list the shrubs of the Ottawa district and mke a key far their identifi~ation in, the field. Any person interested in joining this study group should contact Ruth Horn 9901, -fa$ further information, A i \ Ruth Rorner I <. i -. ' 2 v <- i * .Ad.<.- .., NOmm CLUB JmTnC. I %. ..- '- '*,'2 ti i -3. On Thursday ev&ing, ~ovefiber8, a meeting was held in the i National IIuseum Audi-t;onum at which two of our members gave most interesting accounts of their summer experience in the far north* t" 4 ,r.
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