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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
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Content Description

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.

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Use of the Collection

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.

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Administrative Information

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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Alphabetical Files

    Container: Series 1

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

    Container: Series 2

  • Canal Zone, Panama

    Container: Series 3

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

    Container: Series 4

    • Dates: 1961-1970
      Container: Box/Folder 5/1-5
  • Environmental Biological Research, Institute of

    Container: Series 5

  • Grants

    Container: Series 6

    • Description: Applications
      Dates: 1960-1968
      Container: Box/Folder 7/1-4
    • Description: Grant Contract
      Dates: 1965-1971
      Container: Box/Folder 7/5
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1963-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 7/6
    • Description: Training Grant
      Dates: 1969 January 29
      Container: Box/Folder 7/7
  • Indonesia Project

    Container: Series 7

    • Description: Business Records
      Dates: 1948-1958
      Container: Box/Folder 7/8
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1948-1967
      Container: Box/Folder 7/9-11
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1957-1962
      Container: Box/Folder 7/12
  • Miscellaneous Papers

    Container: Series 8

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

    Container: Series 9

  • Reports, Miscellaneous

    Container: Series 10

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

    Container: Series 11

  • University of Utah

    Container: Series 12

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

    Container: Series 13

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

    Container: Series 14

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

    Container: Series 15

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

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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
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