Marston Bates Papers, 1913-1974

Summary

Creator:

Bates, Marston, 1906-1974

Abstract:

Professor of zoology at the University of Michigan, scientist for the Rockefeller Foundation, and scientific writer for both professional and popular publications. Correspondence, journals, manuscripts of writings, and class materials, including papers detailing his work with the United Fruit Company in Central America, 1928-1931, his later activities with the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, especially his interest in mosquito research and malaria control programs during the 1930's and 1940's, and his demographic studies of the people of the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific in 1953; and photographs.

Extent:

25 linear feet

Language:

English.

Call Number:

851144 Aa 2

Authors:

Finding aid prepared by: Larry Steck and Leonard Coombs

Background

Scope and Content:

The Bates papers cover the period 1913-1974 and include material relating to all phases of his career, including his research in Guatemala and Honduras with the United Fruit Company, his studies of mosquito biology and malaria control programs during the 1930's and 1940's in Albania, Egypt, Colombia, and elsewhere and his later investigations into problems of demography and human ecology. The collection includes correspondence, personal and scientific journals, miscellaneous entomological notes, manuscripts of many of his books, articles, and book reviews, copies of the scripts of his television appearances, and University of Michigan class notes. The collections also includes personal photographs and photographs relating to his scientific research.

The collection has been arranged into six series: Correspondence; University of Michigan; Journals, diaries, research; Writings; Notes/miscellaneous personal; and Photographs.

Biographical / Historical:

Marston Bates, scientist and writer, was professor of zoology at the University of Michigan from 1952 until his death in 1974. Prior to that time, Bates worked for the United Fruit Company (1928-1931) in Central America, and later with the Rockefeller Foundation (1935-1952). In addition, he was Sheldon Traveling Fellow from Harvard University to Cuba (1934-1935), special assistant to the president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1950-1952), member of the National Research Council's expedition to the Ifalik Atoll in the South Pacific (1953), director of research at the University of Puerto Rico (1956-1957), member of the Committee on Biological and Medical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (1952-1958), trustee of the Cranbrook Institute of Science (1955-1962),and Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar (1962-1963 and 1968-1969).

Although distinguished for his research on mosquitoes, malaria, and yellow fever, Bates was perhaps best known, in the words of the New York Times, as a "Nontechnical Naturalist", a man who was able to write readable scientific works.

Acquisition Information:

The collection was donated by Marston Bates (donor no. 5441 ) in 1973.

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Selective Index of Correspondents

Correspondence has been listed either by date and thus to be found within the chronological correspondence subseries, or within the alphabetical correspondence subseries (indicated by box and folder designation, e.g. 6-16)

Abbott, Donald Putnam.	4-20; 6-9; 6-10; 8-25; 10-7; 10-12; 12-16
Benitez, Jaime, 1908-	4-27; 6-13; 6-14; 10-17; 12-19
Boulding, Kenneth Ewart, 1910-	4-28
Brown, Dugald E. S., 1901-	4-28; 6-13; 8-4
Bugher, John Clifford, 1901-	March 1941-March 1943 throughout; also 6-14; 8-7
Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant), 1891-1958.	4-27; 4-28; 6-14; 6-16
Cain, Stanley Adair, 1902-	4-30; 9-4
Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957.	4-30
Crist, Raymond E.	3-25; 4-30; 6-17
Darlington, Philip Jackson, 1904-	July-December 1934 throughout; also Nov. 3, 1942, January 9, 1943 and letter in folder 4-17
DeVinney, Leland Collins, 1906-	4-33; 8-7
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.	6-6; 6-7
Dice, Lee Raymond, 1887-1977.	4-33
Douglas, Paul Howard, 1892-	6-23
Dunn, Emmet Reid, 1894-1956.	August 29, 1943; see also folder 4-33
Ecological Society of America.	4-36; 6-24
Fairchild, David, 1869-1954.	March 11, 1928, March 15, 1931;May 15, 1931, October 9, 1934, November 20, 1934, .July 8, 1938, September 19, 1942, October 6, 1942, October 16, 1942, February 8, 1943, April 17, 1943, May 2, 1944, May 2, 1945, May 2, 1947, January 8, 1948, February 3, 1948, November 1, 1948.
Fairchild, G. B.	1-3; 1-6; 1-8; 1-40; 1-41; 1-42; 2-3; 2-4; 2-20; 2-22; 3-38; 3-39; 3-44; 4-1; 4-17.
Fairchild, Marian H.	August 24, 1911; September 1, 1941; December 27, 1941; May 11, 1944; June 7, 1945; February 15, 1948; February 18, 1948; see also folders 6-6; 6-7; 7-25
Fleming, R. W. (Robben Wright), 1916-	13-1
Gaige, Frederick M.	1926-May 1930 throughout; also October 25, 1935
Gerlach, Lee.	9-2; 9-17
Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966.	September 30, 1944; November 15, 1944; December 1948; see also folders 6-7; 11-25
Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 1901-1982.	November 17, 1947; November 24, 1947; December 9, 1947;December 18, 1947; December 22, 1947; June 1, 1948; July 26, 1948; July 30, 1948; August 3, 1948; see also folders 7-2; 7-14; 7-26.
Haber, William, 1899-1988	11-7
Hackett, Lewis Wendell, 1884-1962.	Letters for 1936-1943 in spring-back binders in box 15; April 1944-July 1948, throughout; also folders 5-5; 7-4; 9-18; 11-12
Hatcher, Harlan Henthorne, 1898-	5-4 (letter to Harlan Hatcher re the Markert investigation)
Hicks, Welmer K., 1909-	7-7
Hubbell, Theodore, 1897-1989.	1931 throughout; August 6, 1933; August 31, 1940, April 10, 1941; March 1, 1947; March 27, 1947; April 2, 1947.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation	7-2; 7-3; 9-17; 11-10; 11-11; 13-6
Just, Theodor Karl, 1904-1960.	5-8; 6-17
Kennedy, John S.	2-14; 2-15; 3-15; 3-16; 3-20; 3-34; 3-38; 3-39
Kinsey, Alfred Charles, 1894-1956.	July 12, 1933; July 20, 1933; August 11, 1933; see also folders 5-10; 6-7; 7-7; 9-4
Kumm, Henry William, 1901-	May 1943-June 1944 throughout, December 6, 1944; January 22, 1946; March 22, 1946
Logan, John A.	5-11; 7-8
Mead, Margaret, 1901-	4-20; 7-9
Muñoz Marín Luis, 1898-	7-9
Pollock, James Kerr, 1898-	5-21
Popenoe, Wilson, 1892-	1-8; 1-9; 1-14; 1-15; 1-16; 1-17; 1-18; 1-21; 1-22; 1-27; 1-28; 1-36; 1-38; 1-42; 2-1; 2-7; 2-15; 6-7
Rahn, Sheldon Lloyd, 1918-	7-23
Rockefeller, David, 1915-	2-11; 3-41; 6-17; 7-4; 7-5; 7-7; 7-11; 8-6; 8-7
Rogers, James Speed, 1891-1955.	1928-1929 throughbut; November 11, 1931; July 19, 1934; June 2, 1943; July 5, 1943; September 8, 1943; April 18, 1944; August 7, 1946; January 3, 1948; February 6, 1948; February 24, 1948; March 1, 1948; March 5, 1948; April 26, 1948; see also folders 5-25; 8-6
Rusk, Dean, 1909-	5-23; 8-6; 8-7
Russell, Diarmuid	5-26; 8-6; 8-8; 8-13; 10-5; 11-29; 13-4; 13-20; 14-1
Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-	6-3; 6-7; 8-9; 8-21
Sawyer, Ralph Alanson, 1895-	8-4
Scribner, Charles, 1921-	8-12
Soop, Everett J., 1901-	8-9
Trapido, Harold	March 23, 1945; March 28.1945; September 12, 1945; March 14, 1946; March 21, 1946; March 22, 1946; July 26, 1947; August 1, 1947; August 22, 1947; September 26, 1947; October 27, 1947; November 12, 1947; April 23, 1948; January 6, 1949; see also 5-33; 8-17; 10-8
Twente, John W.	5-32; 8-16; 8-17; 10-8
Wagman, Frederick H.	8-20
Wilgus, A. Curtis (Alva Curtis), 1897-1981.	5-35; 9-15

Subjects

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Subjects:

Malaria.
Mosquitoes -- Control.
Zoology.
Animals.
Birds.
Classrooms -- Michigan -- Ann Arbor.
Mosquitoes.
Teaching methods.
Television in education.
Zoology.

Formats:

Photographs.
Drawings.

Names:

Cranbrook Institute of Science.
Darwin Centennial Celebration (1959 : University of Chicago)
Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Division.
United Fruit Company.
University of Michigan. Dept. of Zoology.
University of Michigan -- Faculty.
Ecological Society of America.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Bates, Marston, 1906-1974.
Abbott, Donald Putnam.
Benítez, Jaime, 1908-2001.
Boulding, Kenneth E. (Kenneth Ewart), 1910-1993.
Brown, Dugald E. S., 1901-
Bugher, John Clifford, 1901-
Burrows, Edwin G. (Edwin Grant), 1891-1958.
Cain, Stanley A. (Stanley Adair), 1902-1995.
Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957.
Crist, Raymond E.
Darlington, Philip Jackson, 1904-1983.
DeVinney, Leland Collins, 1906-
De Voto, Bernard Augustine, 1897-1955.
Dice, Lee Raymond, 1887-1977.
Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976.
Dunn, Emmett Reid, 1894-1956.
Fairchild, David, 1869-1954.
Fairchild, G. B.
Fairchild, Marian H.
Fleming, R. W. (Robben Wright), 1916-2010.
Gaige, Frederick M.
Gerlach, Lee.
Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966.
Grosvenor, Melville Bell, 1901-1982.
Haber, William, 1899-1988.
Hackett, Lewis Wendell, 1884-1962.
Hatcher, Harlan, 1898-1998.
Hicks, Welmer K., 1909-
Hubbell, Theodore Huntington, 1897-1989.
Just, Theodor Karl, 1904-1960.
Kennedy, John S.
Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956.
Kumm, Henry William, 1901-
Logan, John A.
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Muñoz Marín, Luis, 1898-1980.
Pollock, James K. (James Kerr), 1898-1968.
Popenoe, Wilson, 1892-1975.
Rahn, Sheldon Lloyd, 1918-
Rockefeller, David, 1915-
Rogers, J. Speed (James Speed), 1892-1955.
Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994.
Russell, Diarmuid.
Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975.
Sawyer, Ralph A. (Ralph Alanson), 1895-1978.
Scribner, Charles, Jr., 1921-1995.
Soop, Everett J., 1901-
Trapido, Harold.
Twente, John W.
Wagman, Frederick H.
Wilgus, A. Curtis (Alva Curtis), 1897-1981.

Places:

Central America.
Ifalik Atoll (Micronesia)
Albania.
Central America.
Colombia.
Ifalik Atoll (Micronesia)