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29_26 Chas B. Turrill the Photographer and Michael of the Sierra Club were here today. Turrill knew Watkins the Photographer well. Watkins was the first man to make tree studies in California. He first photographed the Sierra trees. Went first to Yosemite in 1858, with eleven mules in his pack train to carry his outfit! He took infinite pains to secure detail by accurate focussing. Exposed 15 to 30 minutes and often early in the morning before sunrise in the glow which precedes the glare in a Sierra summer. Used wet plates and of the size of the prints which hang on the walls of the Botany Bldg! Watkins made himself poor by |
29_27 July 1914 Watkins made himself poor by his high devotion to ideals of photography. His plates were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake. He is still living--in the Napa asylum for the insane as an inmate-- all this according to Turrill Michael, who has been in the Sierra this year says that the Alpine Columbine (Aquilegia pubescens) above Sardine Lake, Bloody Canon, occurred this year in pink, cream, yellow, and purple! and white. (Same as No. 4439) He also remarks the Rhus diversiloba in Hetch-Hetchy and its absence in Yosemite ---Eastwood, Alice. was always very appreciative of sets of plants sent her by collectors. See copy of letter to Mary Strong Clemens filed with Mrs. C's letter of Dec 6 '18 |
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