Donald M. Rees papers, 1922-1975

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Rees, Donald M. (Don Merrill), 1901-
Title
Donald M. Rees papers
Dates
1922-1975 (inclusive)
Quantity
15 linear feet
Collection Number
Acc0206
Summary
Donald M. Rees became a Professor of Zoology at the University of Utah in 1936. He served as Head of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Entomology from 1948 to 1963, Chairman of the Division of Biological Sciences from 1951 to 1965, and as Director of the Institute of Environmental Biological Research from 1960 to 1966. Rees retired from the University in 1970. He is known primarily for his work in mosquito abatement. The majority of this collection contains materials related to Rees' mosquito abatement activity. A small portion of the collection contains material relating to his career in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Institute of Environmental Biological Research.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, University Archives and Records Management
University Archives and Records Management, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
666 Guardsman Way
Salt Lake City, UT
84112
Telephone: 8015818242
david.buhler@utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Materials must be used on-site; advance notice suggested. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection contains materials related to the mosquito control activities of Donald M. Rees. Included are correspondence, reports, memoranda, and photoprints. Over one-half of the collection deals with his activites in Utah, primarily with the success of mosquito abatement activities and the influences of climatic changes on these efforts. The collection also contains correspondence and reports concerning his involvement with mosquito control activities at the Panama Canal and in Indonesia. Also included are correspondence and reports of the American Mosquito Control Association. A small portion of the collection relates to his activites at the University of Utah in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Institute of Environmental Biological Research.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

Initial Citation: Donald M. Rees papers, Acc. 206, Box [ ]. University Archives and Records Management. University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott. Salt Lake City, Utah.

Following Citations:Acc. 206.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is divided into fifteen series. Within each series, the material is arranged alphabetically.

Separated Materials

Accompanying photographs were transferred to the Multimedia Archives of Special Collections.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Alphabetical FilesReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 1

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Agricultural Research Service - Utah State University
1961-1965
1/2-8
American Mosquito Control Association
1943-1970
1/9
American Mosquito Conrtol Association and California Mosquito Control Association
1960-1963
1/10
American Mosquito Control Association and Utah Mosquito Abatement Association
1964
1/11
American Mosquito Control Association - Business Records
1958-1964
1/12
American Mosquito Control Association - Correspondence
1966-1968
1/13
American Mosquito Control Association - Good Neighbor Club
1958-1963
1/14
Bureau of Reclamation (United States Department of the Interior)
1960-1965
1/15
California Mosquito Control Association - Annual Conferences
1944-1953
1/16-17 to 2/1-2
Communicable Disease Center - Atlanta, Georgia
1956-1962
2/3-4
Cooperative Drainage Committee - Salt Lake County
1951-1964
2/5-7
Correspondence
1963-1967
2/8
Ditching Equipment
1947-1964
2/9
Dugway Proving Ground - Tooele County, Utah
1959-1968
2/10
Entomological Society of America - Conventions
1958-1961
2/11-12
Entomological Society of America - Correspondence
1961-1969
2/13-14
Entomological Society of America - Meetings
1956-1958
3/1-2
Entomoligical Society of America - Memberships
1953-1961
3/3
Fish and Wildlife Service (United States Department of the Interior)
1961-1966
3/4
Geological Survey, United States
1963-1965
3/5-7
Health Service, United States Public
1958-1964
3/8
International Congress of Entomology - Ottawa, Canada
1956-1964
3/9-10
Lake Front Gun, Fur, and Reclamation Club - Salt Lake County, Utah
1956-1965
3/11-13
Malaria
1947-1961
3/14
Montana Milk River Progress Report
1959-1961
3/15
National Institutes of Health - Washington D.C.
1960-1966
3/16
New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association - Atlantic City Conventions
1931-1941
3/17
Pacific Branch of the Entomoligical Society of America and the Society of Systematic Zoology
1957-1962
3/18 to 4/1
Public Health Service (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)
1960-1965
4/2
Salina, Utah - Mosquito Control Investigation
1945-1947
4/3
Soil Conservation Service (United States Department of Agriculture)
1963-1966
4/4-5
Tokyo, Japan - Consultation for Army Epidemological Board
1945-1953
4/6
Utah Education Association
1959
4/7
Utah Pest Control Association
1956
4/8
Utah State Health Department
1956-1960
4/9
Utah Water News
1962-1963
4/10
Virginia Mosquito Control Association
1948-1954
4/11
Wheeler Machinery Company - Salt Lake City, Utah
1962-1965
4/12-13
Yosemite, California - Conference of the Coordinated Program of Wildlife Management and Mosquito Suppression
1961-1964

Army Grant - Leptoconops Kerteszi (Biting Gnat) StudyReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 2

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/14
Accounting
1969-1970
4/15
Correspondence
1969
4/16
Grant Material
1969-1971
4/17
Miscellaneous
1969
4/18
Publication Reports
1970 February
4/19
Vouchers
1969-1970

Canal Zone, PanamaReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 3

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
4/20
Correspondence
1955; 1963-1965
4/21
Division of Sanitation
1962-1967
4/22
Maps and Charts
1961-1964
4/23
Memoranda
1965-1967
4/24
Reports
1953-1964

CorrespondenceReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 4

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
5/1-5
1961-1970

Environmental Biological Research, Institute ofReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 5

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
5/6-7
Correspondence
1961-1974
5/8
Minutes
1966-1973
5/9
Miscellaneous
1965-1966
5/10
Proposals
1959-1967
5/11-16
Reports, Annual
1967-1974
5/17-18
Reports, Miscellaneous
1965-1974
6/1-5
Reports, Quarterly
1967-1975
6/6-8
Research
1960-1967

GrantsReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 6

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
7/1-4
Applications
1960-1968
7/5
Grant Contract
1965-1971
7/6
Miscellaneous
1963-1967
7/7
Training Grant
1969 January 29

Indonesia ProjectReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 7

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
7/8
Business Records
1948-1958
7/9-11
Correspondence
1948-1967
7/12
Miscellaneous
1957-1962

Miscellaneous PapersReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 8

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
8/1
Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume 1
1930-1935
8/2
Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume 2
1936-1956
9/1
Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume 3
1934-1955
9/2
" History of and Events in the Lives of Thomas Davis Rees and Elizabeth (Rees) Rees" by Don Merrill Rees
1965 August
9/3
Miscellaneous
1939-1969
9/4
Note Book
1929-1933
10/1-10
Rees Monographs
1934-1971
10/11
Reference Material
1941-1964

Mosquito Abatement Districts - Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake CountyReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 9

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
10/12-13 to 15/1-2
Salt Lake City - Annual Reports
1933-1974
15/3
Salt Lake City - Summary of Annual Reports of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District
1940-1960
15/4-8 to 20/1
South Salt Lake County - Annual Reports
1952-1974
20/2
South Salt Lake County - Miscellaneous
1972

Reports, MiscellaneousReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 10

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
20/3
" Aedes Dorsalis Migration"
1963
20/4
" Control of Insect Vectors on Waterfowl Marshes"
1960-1969
20/5
Cooperative Research Program in Utah
1964
20/6
" Knowledge Requirements, Basic Planning, and Scheduling" submitted by the University of Utah Ecology and Epizoology Research Group
1965 December
20/7
" Measurement of Water through Spill Boxes" by M.T. Wilson and W.V. Irons
undated
20/8
Miscellaneous Reports
1962-1970
20/9
Report from the Encephalitist Lab: U.S. Public Health Service - Logan, Utah
1956-1957
20/10
Research Grant Progress Reports
1961-1965
20/11
Research Grant Quarterly Reports
1969-1970
20/12
Research Grant Quarterly Effort Reports
1961-1965
20/13
Special Report: Utah Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Utah State University - Logan, Utah
1965 July 30
20/14
Utah Community Studies Pesticides Project - Quarter Technical Report
1970 September 15

Tabanidae (Biting Deerfly) ResearchReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 11

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
21/1-2
Accounting
1965-1970
21/3-4
Correspondence
1968-1970
21/5-6
Grants
1965-1969
21/7-8
Reports
1968-1969

University of UtahReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 12

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
21/9
Amaru, Wi-Pere (Maori Affairs Office - New Zealand)
1954-1956
21/11
Biology Building
1962-1967
21/12
Class Rolls
1953-1955
21/13 to 22/1-2
Correspondence
1960-1969
22/3-5
Curriculum Vitae
1952-1970
22/6
Department of Zoology
1965-1967
22/7-11
Exam Keys
undated; 1968-1970
22/12
Faculty Club
1957
22/13
Gaufin, Arden R.
1953-1954
22/14
Kian, Joe Lie (Institute of Medical Research - Republic of Malaya)
1958-1967
22/15
Mecham, Ralph - Correspondence
1965-1966
23/1
Merger Committee - Department of Environmental Biology and the Department of Biological Sciences
1967-1969
23/2
Miscellaneous
1924-1969
23/3
Old Medical School Building Remodeling
1963-1964
23/4-5
Papers
1957-1969
23/6
Supplement for Planning Guide for Biological Sciences
1963 July
23/7
University Research Committee
1965-1967
23/8
Utah Museum of Natural History
1956-1968
23/9
Wang, Yu-Hsi Moltze - Correspondence
1949-1967

Utah Mosquito ControlReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 13

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
23/10 to 24/1-5
Accounting
1958-1975
24/6-7
Annual Reports
1937-1938
24/8
Box Elder County Mosquito Abatement District
1943-1962
24/9
Cache County Mosquito Abatement District
1950-1961
24/10
Contributing Streams to the Great Salt Lake
1963
24/11 to 25/1-5
Correspondence
1927-1939; 1941-1970
25/6
Culicidae Reports
1922-1942
25/7-9
Davis County Mosquito Abatement District
1951-1963
25/10-11
Dugway Proving Ground Project
1957-1958
25/12
Elgin - Moab Mosquito Abatement District
1955-1957
25/13
Entomology Material
1955-1962
25/15
Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area
undated
25/16
Field Notes
1928-1943
26/1
Field Trip Sponsored by Utah Mosquito Control - Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee
1964 June 12
26/2
Utah Mosquito Control - Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee
1962-1972
26/3
Flaming Gorge Reservoir - Daggett County, Utah
1959-1960
26/4-5
Great Salt Lake - Insect Control
1968-1970
26/6
Magna Mosquito Abatement District
1930-1961
26/7-10
Miscellaneous Reports
1935-1970
26/11
Monthly Summary Reports
1930-1934
26/12-14
Mosquito Collection
1924-1960
26/15
Mosquito Control
1967
26/16
Mosquito Control Conference
1962 March 19-21
26/17-18
Mosquito Control Exchange
1933-1953
27/1-2
Mosquito Papers
undated; 1956-1967
27/3
Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee
1964-1965
27/4
" Mosquitos of Utah" Bulletin - Correspondence
1943-1946
27/5-6
References
1931-1942
27/7-10
Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District
1936-1965
27/11
Silent Spring - Pesticide Controversy
1963
27/12-13
Supervisory Reports
1927-1941
28/1-3
Utah Mosquito Abatement Association
1946-1972
28/4
Utah State Department of Health
1964-1968
28/5-6
Water Management
1956-1964
28/7
Water Quality Standards
1960
28/6
Weber County Mosquito Abatement District
1943-1950

Weather ReportsReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 14

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
28/12-16 to 29/1-3
Local Climatological Data
1950-1975; 1952-1960
29/4-6
Maps and Charts
undated; 1931-1932; 1947
29/7-9
Miscellaneous
1923-1970
29/10-12
Meteorlogical Summary
1929-1945
30/1
Monthly Meteorological Summary
1922-1929

Weber Basin ProjectReturn to Top

Container(s): Series 15

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
30/2
Correspondence
1960-1965
30/3
Final Report on the 1951 Survey of Mosquito - Producing Aspects of the Proposed Weber Basin Project West of the Wasatch Front in Utah
1952 March
30/4-7
Water Management Program - Meeting Minutes
1962-1966

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Mosquitoes--Control--Indonesia
  • Mosquitoes--Control--Panama--Panama Canal
  • Mosquitoes--Control--Utah
  • Universities and colleges--Utah--Salt Lake City--History--Sources
  • Zoology--Study and teaching--Utah--History--Sources

Personal Names

  • Rees, Donald M.--Archives

Corporate Names

  • American Mosquito Control Association
  • University of Utah--Archives
  • University of Utah--Faculty
  • University of Utah. Dept. of Zoology and Entomology
  • University of Utah. Institute of Environmental Biological Research

Form or Genre Terms

  • Correspondence
  • Memorandums
  • Photoprints
  • Reports