Overview of the Collection Creator Rees, Donald M. (Don Merrill), 1901- Title Donald M. Rees papers Dates 1922-1975 (inclusive) 1922 1975 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: 801-581-8242 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. http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 1
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. 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 1961-1965 1/2-8 American Mosquito Control Association 1943-1970 1/9 American Mosquito Conrtol Association and California Mosquito Control Association 1/10 American Mosquito Control Association and Utah Mosquito Abatement Association 1960-1963 1964 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 2
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 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 3
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 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) 1931-1941 1957-1962 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) Study 2 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 4
2 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, Panama 3 3 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 Correspondence http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 5
4 4 5/1-5 1961-1970 Environmental Biological Research, Institute of 5 5 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 Grants 6 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 6
6 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 Project 7 7 7/8 Business Records 1948-1958 7/9-11 Correspondence 1948-1967 7/12 Miscellaneous 1957-1962 Miscellaneous Papers 8 8 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 7
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 County 9 9 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 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 8
Reports, Miscellaneous 10 10 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 20/7 " Measurement of Water through Spill Boxes" by M.T. Wilson and W.V. Irons 1965 December 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 20/14 Utah Community Studies Pesticides Project - Quarter Technical Report 1965 July 30 1970 September 15 Tabanidae (Biting Deerfly) Research 11 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 9
11 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 Utah 12 12 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 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 10
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 Control 13 13 23/10 to 24/1-5 Accounting 1958-1975 24/6-7 Annual Reports 1937-1938 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 11
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 26/2 Utah Mosquito Control - Fish and Wildlife Management Coordination Committee 1964 June 12 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 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 12
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 Reports 14 14 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 13
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 Project 15 15 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 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 : http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 14
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 http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv84704 15