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. An incomplete 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. Issues between January 1932 (volume XI, number 1) through December 1945 (volume XXIV, number 12) are bound in five brown cloth volumes, ex-library University of Illinois, withdrawn 26 October 1949. Issues present are: 1925: January (v4, n1), February (v4, n2), May 1925 (v4,n5), 7 July (v4, n7), 14 July (v4, n8), 21 July (v4, n9), 28 July (v4, n10), 4 August (v4, n11), 11 August (v4, n12), 18 August (v4,13), 25 August (v4, n14), 1 September (v4, n15), 8 September (v4, n16), 15 September (v4, n17), 22 September (v4, n18), 31 October (v4, n19), 30 November (v4, n20), 31 December (v4, n21). 1926: 30 January (v5, n1), 27 February (v5, n2), 30 April (v5, n4), 31 May (v5, n5), 31 July (v5, n7), 31 August (v5, n8), 30 September (v5, n9), 30 November (v5, n11). 1927: January (v6, n1), February (v6, n2), March (v6, n3), April (v6, n4), May (v6, n5), June (v6, n6), July (v6, n7), September (v6, n9), October (v6, n10), November (v6, n11), December (v6, n12). 1928: January (v7, n1), February (v7, n2), March (v7, n3), April (v7, n4), May (v7, n5), July (v7, n7), August (v7, n8), September (v7, n9), October (v7, n10), November (v7, n11). 1929: January-December (vol. 8, nos. 1-12). Complete. 1930: March (v9, n3), April (v9, n4), May (v9, n5), June (v9, n6) BIRD ISSUE, July (v9, n7), September (v9, n9), December (v9, n12). 1931: January-December (vol. 10, nos. 1-5; 8-12). Missing JUNE and JULY. 1932: January (v11, n1), February (v11, n2), March (v11, n3), April (v11, n4), May (v11, n5), June (v11, n6), July (v11, n7), August (v11, n8), September (v11, n 9), October (v11, n10). Missing NOVEMBER and DECEMBER. 1932: January-December (volume 11, numbers 1-12). Complete. 1933: January-December (volume 12, numbers 1-12). Complete. 1934: January-December (volume 13, numbers 1-12). Missing JUNE and JULY. 1935: January-December (volume 14, numbers 1-12). Complete. 1936: January-December (volume 15, numbers 1-12). Complete. 1937: January-December (volume 16, numbers 1-12). Includes the extra "special number," "Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite Valley," "printed May, 1937 price 10 cts." 1938: January-December (volume 17, numbers 1-12). Missing JUNE. Includes "Birds of Yosemite," "special number ... January, 1938, price 25 cents." 1939: January-December (volume 18, numbers 1-12). Missing JUNE and JULY. Includes "The Cone-bearing Trees of Yosemite," "special number ... May, 1939 price 25 cents. 1940: January-December (volume 19, numbers 1-12). Missing JUNE and NOVEMBER. 1941: January-December (volume 20, numbers 1-12). Complete. Includes "Yosemite Indians Yesterday and Today," "special number ... July, 1941, price 25 cents." 1942: January-December (volume 21, numbers 1-12). Missing FEBRUARY. Includes "Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite Valley," "special number ... January, 1942, price 10 cents." The second edition of this special number. 1943: January-December (volume 22, numbers 1-12). Missing JANUARY. Includes "A Brief Story of the Geology of Yosemite Valley," "special number ... April, 1943, price 10 cents." 1944: January-December (volume 23, numbers 1-12). Complete. Includes "Fishes of Yosemite National Park," "special number ... January, 1944, price 25 cents." 1945: January-December (volume 24, numbers 1-12). Missing OCTOBER and NOVEMBER. Includes "Principal Waterfalls of the World," special number ... January, 1945, price, 25 cents." 1946: March (v25, n3), October (v25, n10), November (v25, n11), December (v25, n12). 1947: March (v26, n3), April (v26, n4), May (v26, n5), June (v26, n6), July (v26, n7), December (v26, n12). 1948: No issues present. 1949: December (v28, n12) 1950: No issues present. 1951: July (v30, n7), August (v30, n8), September (v30, n9), October (v30, n10, November (v30, n111), December (v30, n12). 1952: January (v31, n1), February (v31, n2), April (v31, n4), July (v31, n7), August (v31, n8), September (v31, n9), October (v31, n10), November (v31, n11), December (v31, n12). 1953: April (v32, n4), July (v32, n7), September (v32, n9), October (v32, n10), November (v32, n11). 1954: March (v33, n3), April (v33, n4), May (v33, n5), June (v33, n6), September (v33, n9). 1955: June (v34, n6), July (v34, n7), November (v34, n11), December (v34, n12). 1956: February (v35, n2), March (v35, n3), April (v35, n4), May (v35, n5), July (v35, n7), August (v35, n8), September (v35, n9), October (v35, n10), December (v35, n12). 1957: March (v36, n3). 1958: May (v37, n5) GUIDE TO THE INSPIRATION POINT NATURE TRAIL, July (v37, n7), August (v37, n8), September (v37, n9), October (v37, n10), November (v37, n11), December (v37, n12). 1959: August (v38, n8), September (v38, n9), October (v38, n10), November (v38, n11), December (v38, n12). 1960: January-December (vol. 39, nos. 1-3, 5-7, 9-10, 12). Missing APRIL, AUGUST and NOVEMBER. 1961: 31 March 1961 (v40, n1), 30 April 1961 (v40, n2); 30 January 1962 [sic] (v40, n5); 1961, no month (v40, n6). 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 (v46, n2). 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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