kt ifi w have your fii halton chapter officers i tm above officers of hal ton chapter royal arch masons were inslatled tn a cerei ony at the masonic hall on wed- inesday january 18th they are i to r ex comp johrit armstrong immediate past first principal com gordott parley senior soourner ex comp bev moody 5econd principal- comp wwikwhsom wldiei i george sivill principal soourner and ex comp john gunn third principal mess discoveries important un research for bryology i i w llnn i 1 mil i brook scientist has specimens collected here i georgetown 4 district mem onal hospital now has an ad miiustralor mr 11 graham gilhoolcy of cornwall wai hired last week by joint docibion of the board of directors agisted b the medical association mr jilhooley has been late 1 business administrator for the cornwall general hospital ondbofort ttiat was adnuni strator at lady mmto hospital m cochran- mr gilhooley will begin his duties here on fob 16th a married man with four children hi has quite- an irn pressive background of training for his chosen field of work a westerner from waldron sask he is a 1958 graduate of the organiitation anil admini stratum extension course or of3cl veofcooapj the umversitv of toronto he is also a graduate of a business oolite the federal civil scry ice learning course and various other courses in business and mspital administration an armv veteran he served in the arnud scruecs from 1935 until 194o and was seriously wounded rugs furniture cleaned in your home or on our premises truirlci lrott georgetown phone days tr 74406 phone evenings tr 66233 h georgetown duracleaning broadloom 9c sq ft 2 pe ut average 12 odd sofa chair 500 tazt boy chair 7 00 car interior 14 op a division of georgetown upholstering cancer education could be taught in schools the georgetown herald thursday ftbrury 2 1941 page 3 point penalties tor shooting hawks owls an unbeatable value to celebrate seayw anniversary about 30 short eared owls on vaj r wuli i his dlstrnl having the properly of roy k gibson sjs an interesting item ap peared in a reeent issue of the millbrook reporter telling of bryology study by harry williams science teacher in the high school there mr williams a georgetown high school graduate is the son of mr and mrs reg williams of stewarttown and the news will be of interest to his friends in town j in a stubble field near mill itu jk owned by marshall fal ills a little plant was found on i w april 22 1958 it was a t n i moss identified for the firs in north america as phas- ikum floerkcanum by mr liar id williams the present teacher i of science in millbrook hih i school he wrote an artic t about it which was published l october of that year in the ibryologist a quarterlv publish led by the american brvooical 1 society mr williams his writ i ten five articles about his van loos finds tn bryology whic j fc the study of moss hic plants j v including both the true mosses v jnd the liverworts l earlier during the mild chr i istmas weather of 1d57 mr williams identified a western p plant the second sueh find in pastern north america it was irigoncurum ova turn found i near the quarter ine roid wes lof millbrook since that timt f harry williams has speculuul the study of liverworts he i is now recognized as the lead king man in his field in can idj ivthe reporter visited the hir f dana of mr williams and his t wife the former ci urc davin lie staff of chatham colics late and peered into the magic v world of mosses and liverw i under the microsenpt learned that an herbarium phvlc enthusiisls a- davison mrs willi mis hit the huntsmlle summir cir the federation of ontario ur lists five vears igo she noticed and like d m director frank cook vi nt ouh one moss ktv with irosses under a micros ihal skiuhiue ia n eame a habit until from lo 19b0 she culhcltd 500 mens for hlr herbarium harry williams biun in after finding an interesting ik patic in the millbrook an i thil not in any av ul ihlt bo k the subji frai the firsi from our aiti he si i led lo k ing for books un brvophvies an 1 gradually got together a sin ill hbrarj on the subjul imvuu mostly fiom a second hand book duller in ln ind he joint li the british bryological society and had ence with their sccrttai he his m fcnhnd rlunn the j sprm and summer of 10 he ullended their lisur mtiliu- nd field lscursion in the ntw st area from 195- 19u0 l 1 mr willians collected in the ur georgetown arei hilton coun lltll n ty millbrook durham county uonqum park manttonlin is hind md hancrofi ire i ul isi irgs county during the summi r of 1is cm with ur it f c nn ihe ln sity 1 ake supt liatehawana bav art as in tin summer of 1059 in wuil wili dr howard grunt cnfiior f the bryophyte cnluctuxi at the national ikrhmuin of anada ot awa to collet i in the 1 mr entians of quebec hut sum mer he attendid hit ninth in ternational hot mical congress i willi which came broloiu from s a jap in union of south collection of dried plant chat as a science it btcaii in i 1756 with the publication of k species plantarum by a swd linnaeus who firsi sv sterna f tiled botany by naming tht gen and species of plants tv kwilhams herbaria are concern m ad solely with brvophytes liver worts and mosses although on the surface the slutlv of br ology has llltlc economic valu the bryophytes themselvts aie of great value as plant pionttrs in preparing areai of lure soil niann tspttnin i or rock for colonization of superior area tluir higher plants the bryophytos k contribution ti immediate ancestors art lost distant goal of est ibl so that they have no ennni etion ringe of all spt russia lngl countrns i it and mrs williams li urn colli eted for i hi musium on the k sula from thi- first collecting bv comptti ogists in this inlcrt li came itrge tmoun ant mitt n il in h arium mr willi mi 2 0h spicimms mr and mrs with any othci i the mosses also mdicait tht previous history of an ara- fromww york to georgia are certain arctic species or tfheial relics in the southern appal chians are some also found in japan canadian bryologists may ox change specimens with collect ors in other nations tht ex changes are handled through the british bryological sociey of which mr williams is a ifraembcr and through the m encan bryological socniv nf which mrs williams js a mem ber in the former socie y collectors send in interesting cpecimens by novembtr of any year these are distributed the following spring among the sub mitters on a grabbag principle unless preferences have hit n indicated mr willnms has specimens from englind swe- 1 den and other furopt an conn tries in the later society mrs j phvi wllliai the direcloi mav itf publis i mirnqographf d list which is sent to alf members thry in turn order from the director we asked mr and mrs will lams how uiej beeajne myo tic sendi dnpl lona museum of canhila ottawa and to the herban oi the bnivt rsitv i f toi sometimes he sends them to th vtw york bninfcl garden the smithsonian institute spi cll a count v possibly 200 tics and 500 spent s in ontario so far o sk tchy oiillint of thi and natural distrib been made asked to outline ihe prtict tlure of ins collecting mr will f lams slated tint ifter colli ct ill ing specimens m bigs hbi lied tin with dite and platt he idtnli support fits and recurds thim giving e ich collection a numhi r loca idtnl lion countv antl habitii dts cnption of conditions undir which they were found growint and whether thev win fruit ing afltr complt ting filt cards for each species hi pi ires eh in a permanent packet with ik herbarium label flora of on tario fx herb i willnms on which is indicated ihe spi c if habitat locitmn eoiltctor dale and number if th speci seems of particular inter