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First offprint edition. Octavo. Comprised entirely of press reviews of the article and photograph published Nov. 27, 1911 in the Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History (v. 1, no. 3). The plate is a chromolithograph copy of the original photograph of the red snow made in natural color by Lumiere process by F.A. Carpenter on July 19, 1911. Ford Carpenter, of San Diego was a Sierra Club member and knew his way around the back country of Yosemite. The photograph was done on Lembert Dome, Yosemite. This was the first autochrome photograph made of such a snow field. The red snow comes from an animalcule, a plant organism that lives in the thawing snow and propagates rapidly. It was believed that Yosemite was the most southern locality on the Pacific coast of North America where this phenomena was observed. The caption on the tissue guard reads: "'Red snow' (sphaerella nivallis) on Lambert dome, Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite, July 19, 1911. Photographed in colors from nature by Ford A. Carpenter, U.S. Weather Bureau." The tissue guard is inscribed in pencil, ?Personal copy to Mr. Daniels with kind regards. Ford A. Carpenter.? There are several offprints of the original article listed in OCLC, but only one copy of this printing of the reviews with the chromolithograph, at the University of California Berkeley.
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