Donald M. Rees papers,

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1 Overview of the Collection Creator Rees, Donald M. (Don Merrill), Title Donald M. Rees papers Dates (inclusive) Quantity 15 linear feet Collection Number Acc0206 Summary Donald M. Rees became a Professor of Zoology at the University of Utah in 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 Rees retired from the University in 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 Telephone: 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 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. 1

2 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 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. Detailed Description of the Collection Alphabetical Files 1 1 1/1 Agricultural Research Service - Utah State University /2-8 American Mosquito Control Association /9 American Mosquito Conrtol Association and California Mosquito Control Association 1/10 American Mosquito Control Association and Utah Mosquito Abatement Association

3 1/11 American Mosquito Control Association - Business Records /12 American Mosquito Control Association - Correspondence /13 American Mosquito Control Association - Good Neighbor Club /14 Bureau of Reclamation (United States Department of the Interior) /15 California Mosquito Control Association - Annual Conferences /16-17 to 2/1-2 Communicable Disease Center - Atlanta, Georgia /3-4 Cooperative Drainage Committee - Salt Lake County /5-7 Correspondence /8 Ditching Equipment /9 Dugway Proving Ground - Tooele County, Utah /10 Entomological Society of America - Conventions /11-12 Entomological Society of America - Correspondence /13-14 Entomological Society of America - Meetings /1-2 Entomoligical Society of America - Memberships /3 Fish and Wildlife Service (United States Department of the Interior) /4 Geological Survey, United States /5-7 Health Service, United States Public /8 International Congress of Entomology - Ottawa, Canada /9-10 Lake Front Gun, Fur, and Reclamation Club - Salt Lake County, Utah

4 3/11-13 Malaria /14 Montana Milk River Progress Report /15 National Institutes of Health - Washington D.C /16 New Jersey Mosquito Extermination Association - Atlantic City Conventions 3/17 Pacific Branch of the Entomoligical Society of America and the Society of Systematic Zoology 3/18 to 4/1 Public Health Service (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) /2 Salina, Utah - Mosquito Control Investigation /3 Soil Conservation Service (United States Department of Agriculture) /4-5 Tokyo, Japan - Consultation for Army Epidemological Board /6 Utah Education Association /7 Utah Pest Control Association /8 Utah State Health Department /9 Utah Water News /10 Virginia Mosquito Control Association /11 Wheeler Machinery Company - Salt Lake City, Utah /12-13 Yosemite, California - Conference of the Coordinated Program of Wildlife Management and Mosquito Suppression Army Grant - Leptoconops Kerteszi (Biting Gnat) Study 2 4

5 2 4/14 Accounting /15 Correspondence /16 Grant Material /17 Miscellaneous /18 Publication Reports 1970 February 4/19 Vouchers Canal Zone, Panama 3 3 4/20 Correspondence 1955; /21 Division of Sanitation /22 Maps and Charts /23 Memoranda /24 Reports Correspondence 5

6 4 4 5/ Environmental Biological Research, Institute of 5 5 5/6-7 Correspondence /8 Minutes /9 Miscellaneous /10 Proposals /11-16 Reports, Annual /17-18 Reports, Miscellaneous /1-5 Reports, Quarterly /6-8 Research Grants 6 6

7 6 7/1-4 Applications /5 Grant Contract /6 Miscellaneous /7 Training Grant 1969 January 29 Indonesia Project 7 7 7/8 Business Records /9-11 Correspondence /12 Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Papers

8 8/1 Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume /2 Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume /1 Don M. Rees Collected Papers Volume /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 /4 Note Book /1-10 Rees Monographs /11 Reference Material Mosquito Abatement Districts - Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake County /12-13 to 15/1-2 Salt Lake City - Annual Reports /3 Salt Lake City - Summary of Annual Reports of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District /4-8 to 20/1 South Salt Lake County - Annual Reports /2 South Salt Lake County - Miscellaneous

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

10 11 21/1-2 Accounting /3-4 Correspondence /5-6 Grants /7-8 Reports University of Utah /9 Amaru, Wi-Pere (Maori Affairs Office - New Zealand) /11 Biology Building /12 Class Rolls /13 to 22/1-2 Correspondence /3-5 Curriculum Vitae /6 Department of Zoology /7-11 Exam Keys undated;

11 22/12 Faculty Club /13 Gaufin, Arden R /14 Kian, Joe Lie (Institute of Medical Research - Republic of Malaya) /15 Mecham, Ralph - Correspondence /1 Merger Committee - Department of Environmental Biology and the Department of Biological Sciences /2 Miscellaneous /3 Old Medical School Building Remodeling /4-5 Papers /6 Supplement for Planning Guide for Biological Sciences 1963 July 23/7 University Research Committee /8 Utah Museum of Natural History /9 Wang, Yu-Hsi Moltze - Correspondence Utah Mosquito Control /10 to 24/1-5 Accounting /6-7 Annual Reports

12 24/8 Box Elder County Mosquito Abatement District /9 Cache County Mosquito Abatement District /10 Contributing Streams to the Great Salt Lake /11 to 25/1-5 Correspondence ; /6 Culicidae Reports /7-9 Davis County Mosquito Abatement District /10-11 Dugway Proving Ground Project /12 Elgin - Moab Mosquito Abatement District /13 Entomology Material /15 Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area undated 25/16 Field Notes /1 Field Trip Sponsored by Utah Mosquito Control - Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee 26/2 Utah Mosquito Control - Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee 1964 June /3 Flaming Gorge Reservoir - Daggett County, Utah /4-5 Great Salt Lake - Insect Control /6 Magna Mosquito Abatement District /7-10 Miscellaneous Reports /11 Monthly Summary Reports /12-14 Mosquito Collection /15 Mosquito Control

13 26/16 Mosquito Control Conference 1962 March /17-18 Mosquito Control Exchange /1-2 Mosquito Papers undated; /3 Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee /4 " Mosquitos of Utah" Bulletin - Correspondence /5-6 References /7-10 Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District /11 Silent Spring - Pesticide Controversy /12-13 Supervisory Reports /1-3 Utah Mosquito Abatement Association /4 Utah State Department of Health /5-6 Water Management /7 Water Quality Standards /6 Weber County Mosquito Abatement District Weather Reports

14 28/12-16 to 29/1-3 Local Climatological Data ; /4-6 Maps and Charts undated; ; /7-9 Miscellaneous /10-12 Meteorlogical Summary /1 Monthly Meteorological Summary Weber Basin Project /2 Correspondence /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 Names and Subjects 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 : 14

15 2010 American Mosquito Control Association University of Utah. Dept. of Zoology and Entomology University of Utah. Institute of Environmental Biological Research University of Utah--Archives University of Utah--Faculty Form or Genre Terms : Correspondence Memorandums Photoprints Reports 15