The
Naming of Beetle Rock
The Rock was named Beetle Rock because it is the site of a
scientific discovery made by Ralph Hopping.
"The
Rock was named in 1905 when a new species of beetle was there discovered
by
Ralph Hopping, a Government entomologist.",
p 55, Guide to Sequoia & General Grant NP, Hall, Ansel F, 1930, National Parks Publishing house.
The photo below is of a hundred year old insect and its labels,
first collected in the Giant Forest by Hopping and since preserved in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. This is the insect whose
scientific discovery led to the naming of Beetle Rock.
Trachykele opulenta Fall,
1906
Above photos:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
© President and
Fellows of Harvard College.
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Home to the Wilderness, A Personal Journey, 1973
"When Sally Carrighar
came to Beetle Rock in the California mountains and there wrote the first
of her nature classics, she came because she had been summoned, in a most
curious way, by a succession of animals that had reached into her urban
world....
Sally Carrighar's
journey homeward is an extraordinary tale - disasters with an end in sight
- which she tells truthfully and movingly in these intimate pages."
Quoted from the jacket, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1973.
(out of print)
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