Sunday, March 24, 2013

Social Grooming in Long Tailed Macaque Societies

It is with great pleasure that we announce the winner of the 2013 Cardiff Naturalists Society Biosciences prize awarded in honour of Professor Ursula Henriques

The 2013 winner is Imogen Fox for her work entitled Social Grooming in Long Tailed Macaque Societies (Sabah, Borneo)

Imogen gave a brief presentation to her work to the CNS at a recent meeting where she was given a cheque and a certificate by Mike Dean Secretary of the society




Once again a real credit to university and to her personally, showing the quality of work that can be produced by a person with real enthusiasm for their subject. Once again the society are proud to be supporting excellence in the students at the university


Full Details of the award and information about Professor Henriques can be found Here



Dr Mary Gillham 1921 - 2013




It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr Mary Gillham

Mary passed away at around 9:30 Saturday 24th March having been taken into hospital from the nursing home she had been in for the last few weeks

We all mourn the loss of such an inspirational person. I remember when in my younger days as a member of the society and clearly just a beginner when it came to things botanical I would be taken by the arm and shown plants of many different types and the insects upon them. She never failed to be able to educated and inform in a manner that was also entertaining and inspiring. I never tired of hearing her tales of adventures in Antarctica and such places and I know she enjoyed hearing all our takes of adventures during member’s evenings and the like once her travelling days were over.

I know that she was still enjoying her old travels until recently because in the last year I had to help out when her slide projector packed up and she wanted to borrow one so she could keep looking at them.

Mary contributed so much to the society over the years as president, editor and speaker and leader of so many walks, and of course as expert being able to identify so many unknown plants that were put up as pictures in many of our talks I know she will be sorely missed. If course it was not just to our society that she contributed, but to Merthyr Nats, the Wildlife trust and many other groups and  it was for these reasons she was rightly recognised in the 2008 Honours with the MBE for services to Nature Conservation in South Wales.

Mary never married, wildlife was her first love, but that did not stop her having many close friends and I know many of you also  remember Mairead Sutherland who she shared many adventures with even up into their 80’s they were exploring and causing mayhem wherever they went, of course always with e smile between them.

Her books were a feast of information and the fact she was writing and publishing them into her 90’s was simply incredible.

To those who do not know Mary as well you will find a page about her on the CNS website at http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/maryg.htm on that page you will find a link to a biography and celebration some of our members prepared for her 80th Birthday party. We showed some of this again at her 90th celebration which we combined with our Christmas celebrations in 2011

Andy Kendall


Monday, March 11, 2013

Wild Bird Protection, Cardiff Naturalists’ involvement in the 1890's

In Cardiff Naturalists’ Newsletter Number 98, March 2013, there is an article by Mary Salter with the title above 

As Mary says in the article "In May 1890 an event took place which inspired members of the Cardiff Naturalists Society to take up the cudgels on behalf of wild birds."

In the small format available within the newsletter it is not possible to provide documents that Mary refers to in a large enough format to be readable so here they are 

Click on a picture to see them full size and read them 
 






You can read the full article in the newsletter which is available free to members

Older copies are made available through the website, but if you want to read it sooner why not join the society. Details on how to are on the JOIN US PAGE above


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