YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES. Yosemite National Park, California: United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and Yosemite Natural History Association, January 1925 -- No Month 1961. A nearly complete file from the first typeset eight-page issue of YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES (January 1925) to the end of the first series (1961). The initial publishing schedule was ambitious. It was published weekly in the summer and monthly in the winter. 21 issues were published in 1925. Thereafter, twelve monthly issues were published until volume 40, the last volume of the first series which concluded with number 6, the final issue. The file is missing 13 issues and one special issue is a later printing. 1925: January- December (volume 4, numbers 1-21). MISSING April 1925 (volume 4, number 4). 1926: January- December (volume 5, numbers 1-12). The June 1926 issue (volume 5, number 6) is a poor copy (stained and worn at edges, but textually complete). 1927: January-December (volume 6, numbers 1-12). 1928: January-December (volume 7, numbers 1-12). 1929: January-December (volume 8, numbers 1-12). 1930: January-December (volume 9, numbers 1-12). The June 1930 issue (volume 9, number 6) is a special issue, "The Common Nesting Birds of Yosemite Valley," by Enid Michael. 1931: January-December (volume 10, numbers 1-12). 1932: January-December (volume 11, numbers1- 12). 1933: January-December (volume 12, numbers 1-12). The May 1933 issue (volume 12, number 5) is a special issue, "The Birds of Yosemite National Park," by M. E. Beatty, C. C. Presnall and C. A. Harwell. 1934: January-December (volume 13, numbers 1-12). 1935: January-December (volume 14, numbers 1-12). The May 1935 issue (volume 14, number 5) is a special issue, "Which is the World's Highest Waterfall," by Reynold E. Carlson and Ruth Carlson (cover title is "Waterfall Number: High Waterfalls of the World"). Accompanied by the "Revised and Reprinted May 1937" version (with bookplate of Mountaineer/Collector Vernon Howard) 1936: January-December (volume 15, numbers 1-12). 1937: January-December (volume 16, numbers 1-12). 1938: January-December (volume 17, numbers 1-12). The January 1938 issue (volume 12, number 5) is a special issue, "The Birds of Yosemite," by M. E. Beatty and C. A. Harwell. HOWEVER, this IS NOT the first printing. It is the "Fourth Edition -- Revised & Reprinted March, 1942." The June 1938 issue (volume 17, number 6) is a special issue, "101 Wildflowers of Yosemite," by M. E. Beatty, C. A. Harwell and J. E. Cole. On verso of first leaf: "First Printing - 4000 copies / June / 1938." 1939: January-December (volume 18, numbers 1-12). MISSING May 1939 (volume 18, number 5). The May 1939 issue is a special issue, "The Cone Bearing Trees of Yosemite," by James E. Cole. 1940: January-December (volume 19, numbers 1-12). 1941: January-December (volume 20, numbers 1-12). MISSING July 1941 (volume 20, number 7). 1942: January-December (volume 21, numbers 1-12). MISSING January 1942 (volume 21, number 1). 1943: January-December (volume 22, numbers 1-12). The January 1943 issue (volume 22, number 1) is a special issue, "Bears of Yosemite," by M. E. Beatty, and The April 1943 issue (volume 22, number 4) is a special issue, "A Brief Story of the Geology of Yosemite Valley," by M. E. Beatty. MISSING August 1943 (volume 22, number 8). 1944: January-December (volume 23, numbers 1-12). The January 1944 issue (volume 28, number 1) is a special issue "Fishes of Yosemite National Park," by Willis A. Evans. 1945: January-December (volume 24, numbers 1-12). The January 1945 issue (volume 24, number 1) is a special issue, "Principal Waterfalls of the World and Their Relation to Those in Yosemite National Park" by C. Frank Brockman. 1946: January-December (volume 25, numbers 1-12). The January 1946 issue (volume 25, number 1) is a special issue, "Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park," by M. V. Walker. 1947: January-December (volume 26, numbers 1-12). The January 1947 issue (volume 25, number 1) is a special issue, "Broadleaved Trees of Yosemite National Park," by C. Frank Brockman. 1948: January-December (volume 27, numbers 1-12). The January 1948 issue (volume 27, number 1) is a special issue, "A Guide to the Mother Lode Country" by C. Frank Brockman. 1949: January-December (volume 28, numbers 1-12). The June 1949 issue (volume 28, number 6) is a special issue, "A Guide to the Giant Sequoias of Yosemite National Park," by James W. McFarland. 1950: January-December (volume 29, numbers 1-12). 1951: January-December (volume 30, numbers 1-12). 1952: January-December (volume 31, numbers 1-12). MISSING June 1952 (volume 31, number 6). 1953: January-December (volume 32, numbers 1-12). 1954: January-December (volume 33, numbers 1-12). The August 1954 (volume 33, number 8) is a special issue, "Birds of Yosemite National Park," by Cyril A. Stebbins and Robert C. Stebbins. This issue has worn covers and is split along the spine fold. 1955: January-December (volume 34, numbers 1-12). MISSING January 1955 (volume 34, number 1). 1956: January-December (volume 35, numbers 1-12). The June 1956 issue (volume 35, number 6) is a special issue, "Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park," by Richard P. Ditton and Donald E. McHenry. 1957: January-February (volume 36, numbers 1-12). 1958: January-December(volume 37, numbers 1-12). The June 1958 issue (volume 37, number 6) is a special issue, "Wild Flowers of the Sierra," compiled by Douglass Hubbard in cooperation with the National Park Service. 1959: January-December (volume 38, numbers 1-12). MISSING May 1959 (volume 38, number 5). 1960: January-December (volume 29, numbers 1-12). MISSING April 1960 (volume 39, number 4), August 1960 (volume 39, number 8), and November 1960 (volume 39, number 11). 1961: 31 March 1961 (volume 40, number 1), 30 April 1961 (volume 40, number 2); 30 January 1962 [sic?] (volume 40, number 5); 1961, no month (volume 40, number 6). Last number of the first series. Last number of the first series. Page [145] of the last issue has a bibliography of the magazine with notes and list of special issues devoted to one subject, most of were also sold separately as well, and many of which had revised editions. The name of the magazine was changed from YOSEMITE NATURE NOTES to YOSEMITE with the issue dated 31 March 1961. 1977 (Volume 46, number 2). On July 10, 1922 Yosemite Nature Notes (later Yosemite) commenced publication as a weekly mimeographed newsletter edited by Ansel F. Hall. The first typeset issue was dated January 1925. The initial publishing schedule was ambitious. It was published weekly in the summer and monthly in the winter. 21 issues were published in 1925. Thereafter, twelve monthly issues were published until volume 40, the last volume of the first series which concluded with number 6, the final issue. For nearly forty years Yosemite Nature Notes served park visitors and the National Park Service interpretive program and its more than 400 regular issues and twenty-three special issues comprise a major source of information on the human and natural history of the Yosemite region. The Park's Naturalist Department was formally created in 1922. See Carl P. Russell, "A 40th Anniversary," Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. XXXIX, No. 7, July 1960, pages 153-155. Also see the July 1960 issue for articles on Yosemite's Nature Guide Service, 1920-1960.
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