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Yosemite Nature Notes 17 (1938)

John Muir in Yosemite, 1908 (from “John Muir Number”)

• YNN 17(1) (January 1938) [PDF]
  • “Birds of Yosemite National Park,” 17(1):1-36 by M. E. Beatty and and C. A. Harwell
• YNN 17(2) (February 1938) [PDF]
  • skiers and ski jumper at Badger Pass ski area, 17(2):cover photo
  • “Ta-bu-ce as a Weather Prophetess” [Maggie Howard, Tabuce], 17(2):37-38 by Earnest A. Payne
  • “An Enterprising Junco” [pecking in ant-lion craters], 17(2):38 by Jim Skakel
  • “Yosemite Animals: Marmots” [Sierra Marmot], 17(2):39-40 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “Unicorn Buck” [deer and “Old Horny” the “rhino buck”], 17(2):40-41 by Lon Garrison
  • “Observations on the Townsend Warbler” [Dendroica townsendi], 17(2):41-42 by Lowell Adams
  • “Home Life on Yosemite’s Summit” [cony], 17(2):42-43 by Lowell Adams
  • “Yosemite’s Past: Wooden Windlass” [wood wedged between trees since 1870s], 17(2):44 by M. D. Bryant
• YNN 17(3) (March 1938) [PDF]
  • “Assistant Park Naturalist Beatty with Mountain Sheep discovered in the Lyell Glacier on October 4, 1933,” 17(3):cover photo
  • “Report on the Corpse-wax in the Mountain Sheep Found in the Ice of the Lyell Glacier,” 17(3):45-48 by Erich Wasmund [translated by Carl Sharsmith from “Die Bildung von anabituminous Leichenwachs unter Wasser,” Erdolmuttersubstanz 10 (1935)]
  • “Some Problems of Glacier Measuring,” 17(3):48-50 by C. A. Harwell
  • “Further Observations on the Mummified Mountain Sheep” [Ovis canadensis sierrae], 17(3):51-54 by Carl Sharsmith
  • “The Yosemite Natural History Association: Its Purposes,” 17(3):55
• YNN 17(4) (April 1938) “John Muir Number Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth — April 21” [PDF]
  • “John Muir in Yosemite in 1908,” 17(4):cover photo
  • “John Muir in Yosemite,” 17(4):57-60 by C. A. Harwell
  • “With Muir in Yosemite,” 17(4):60-61 poem by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • “John Muir,” 17(4):62-64 by Mrs. H. J. Taylor [Rose Taylor]
• YNN 17(5) (May 1938) [PDF]
  • “Vernal Fall,” 17(5):cover photo
  • “The Resistance of the Rattlesnake to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning,” 17(5):65-66 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “The Ranger-Naturalist” 17(5):66 poem by Frances Osborne-Stallings
  • “Yosemite Animals: Cruising Speeds” [of some birds and animals], 17(5):67-68 by Lon Garrison
  • “Sierra Pine Marten” [Martes caurina sierrae in Tuolumne Meadows], 17(5):68 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “Fishing for Adventure” [observing nature while fishing], 17(5):69-70 by Harold E. Perry
  • “The Wright Flycatcher Nesting in Tuolumne Meadows” [Empidonax wrighti], 17(5):70-71 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “A Cycle of Plenty” [of plants and animals used for food by birds and animals], 17(5):71 by Lon garrison
  • “Indian Creek Rancheria,” 17(5):72 by Lon Garrison
• YNN 17(6) (June 1938) [PDF]
  • “101 Wildflowers of Yosemite,” 17(6):75-112 by M. E. Beatty, C. A. Harwell, and J. E. Cole
• YNN 17(7) (July 1938) “High Sierra Number” [PDF]
  • “Scene in Tuolumne Meadows,” 17(7):cover photo
  • “Trees on Lembert Dome,” 17(7):113-115 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “Nature Notelets” [tame coyote], 17(7):115 by Frank Givens
  • “Mountain Teachings” [7-day guided high sierra walk and a poem by Don Blanding], 17(7):116-118 by M. D. Bryant
  • “Preliminary Check List of Dragonflies Taken in Yosemite National Park,” 17(7):118-120 by Carsten Ahrens
  • “A Coyote Feeds” [capturing and eating several gophers], 17(7):120 by H. S. Hildreth
• YNN 17(8) (August 1938) [PDF]
  • “Half Dome from Glacier Point,” 17(8):cover photo
  • “Natural Wholesale Planting of California Black Oak in Yosemite Valley” [Quercus kelloggii], 17(8):121 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “Entomology Field Course, University of California Cnnducted in Yosemite National Park May 15 to June 18, 1938,” 17(8):112-123 by Stanley F. Bailey
  • “The Vitality of Beetles” [scarab beetles], 17(8):123 by Karl D. Snyder
  • “The Sierra Creeper Goes to Bed,” 17(8):123 by Enid Michael
  • “Nature Notelets” [grouse], 17(8):123 by Frank Givens
  • “Grosbeaks Feed on Aphids” [black-headed grosbeaks, Hedymeles melanocephalus melanocephalus feeds on Myzocallis californicus], 17(8):124 by Lowell Adams
  • “Flycatching Grosbeaks,” 17(8):125 by Ernest A. Payne
  • “Robins Have Cold Feet,” 17(8):125 by Lon Garrison
  • “Our Cliff Swallows Home” [violet-green swallows and white-throated swifts nesting at Hetch Hetchy dam, which was being raised], 17(8):126 by Gustave M. Eastman
  • “The Tenaya Creek Ouzel is Again on the Job” [water ouzel, Cinclus mexicanus unicolor], 17(8):126 by Enid Michael
  • “I Have Seen Yosemite,” 17(8):127 poem by Carl D. Duncan
  • “The Seven Day Hike” [socialization and “Lake Tenaya Nocturn”], 17(8):128 by Harold E. Perry
• YNN 17(9) (September 1938) [PDF]
  • “Half Dome from Mirror Lake,” 17(9):cover photo
  • “Conducting an Insect Walk,” 17(9):129-130 by Carsten Ahrens
  • “The Sierra Hound’s Tongue (Cynoglossum occidentale Gray),” 17(9):130 by Enid Michael
  • “Yosemite Trees: the Lingering Death of a Big Tree” [Utah Tree, giant Sequoia, Sequoia gigantea], 17(9):131-132 by Lee Haines
  • “Pinus Attenuata in Yosemite National Park,” [knobcone pine], 17(9):132-133 by Charles Michael
  • “Big Tree Cones” [giant Sequoia, Sequoia gigantea], 17(9):133 by Arthur W. Carthew
  • “Nature Notelet” [Tahoe Chipmunk, Eutamias speciosus frater], 17(9):133 by Arthur W. Carthew
  • “Late Nestings of the Water Ouzel” [Cinclus mexicanus unicolor], 17(9):134-135 by Walter G. Heil
  • “Sierra Nevada Chickaree Eats Black-Headed Grosbeaks’s Eggs,” 17(9):135-136 by Lowell Adams
  • “Pine Marten at Bridalveil Campground,” 17(9):136 by Lon Garrison
  • “Patrol Notes” [coyote], 17(9):136 by H. S. Hildreth
• YNN 17(10) (October 1938) [PDF]
  • “Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point,” 17(10):cover photo
  • “The Fate of Overhanging Rock,” 17(10):137-138 by Elmer L. Lucas
  • “The Mount Lyell Salamander,” 17(10):138-139 by Lowell Adams
  • “The Lunar Bow in Yosemite Fall” [moonbow], 17(10):139-140 by Harold E. Perry
  • “Patrol Notes” [porcupine, ring-tailed cat], 17(10):140 by H. S. Hildreth
  • “An Early Trip to Yosemite” [1897 diary], 17(10):141-144 by Harold Perry
  • “A California Black Oak of Unusual Size,” 17(10):144 by Earnest A. Payne
• YNN 17(11) (November 1938) [PDF]
  • Yosemite Valley, 17(11):cover photo
  • “Rattlesnake and Jays” [blue-fronted jay (Steller’s jay), Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis], 17(11):145-146 by Enid Michael
  • “The Blue-Fronted Jay” [Steller’s jay, Cyanocitta stelleri frontalis], 17(11):146-148 by Enid Michael
  • “Epicormic Branches” [exposed on a dead white fir stump], 17(11):148-149 by Elmer L. Lucas
  • “The Eagle in Flight” [golden eagle at Glacier Point], 17(11):149 by Elmer L. Lucas
  • “Summer Rainfall in the Sierra Nevada,” 17(11):150-151 by Arthur W. Carthew
  • “New Weight Record for Sierra Nevada Black Bear,” 17(11):151-152 by M. E. Beatty
  • “Bug Versus Beetle” [water strider and lady-bird [ladybug] beetle], 17(11):152 by Carsten Ahrens
  • “Yosemite Travel Record” [monthly for past 12 months], 17(11):152
• YNN 17(12) (December 1938) [PDF]
  • “Lyell Glacier in Late Fall,” 17(12):cover photo
  • “Unpopular Rim Trips” [on north and south rims of Yosemite Valley], 17(12):153-154 by Harold E. Perry
  • “Ecologic Relationship of the Large Termite” [Thermopsis angusticollis], 17(12):155-156 by Lowell Adams
  • “Wilson Phalarope, New Bird for Yosemite” [Steganopus tricolor], 17(12):156 by C. A. Harwell
  • “Nesting of the American Merganser in Yosemite National Park” [Mergus merganser americanus], 17(12):156-157 by Bert F. Jones
  • “Pigmy Owl Preying on Birds,” 17(12):157 by George Osborn Hale
  • “The Yellow Pine Growing in the Face of El Capitan,” 17(12):158-159 by E. C. Smith
  • “Golden Eagle Controls Ground Squirrels in Yosemite Valley,” 17(12):159 by Otto Brown
  • “Sudden Death” [by sierra chickarees gathering cones dropped on highways], 17(12):159 by Arthur W. Carthew
  • “Lewisia Kelloggii” [kellogg’s bitter-root], 17(12):159-160 by Enid Michael
  • “‘And Then it Began to Rain Toads and . . .’” [tree toads, Hyla sp.], 17(12):160 by Carsten Ahrens

Bibliographical Information

Yosemite Nature Notes 17 (1938) (Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1938). 24 cm. Ill. LCCN 54040211. Library of Congress call number QH1.Y6. U. S. Government Document Call Number: I 29.119

Digitized by Dan Anderson, June 2007, from a copy at Young Research Library (UCLA).
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

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