Record

CodePX532
Dates1913-1967
Person NameRees; William James (1913-1967); Doctor; Zoologist
SurnameRees
ForenamesWilliam James
TitleDoctor
EpithetZoologist
ActivityZoologist; marine biologist; Museum Staff; Appointed assistant keeper (2nd class) in Department of Zoology 1946; senior scientific officer 1947; principal scientific officer 1954; died 1967. Head of Coelenterate section 1955.

Graduated from the Univeristy of Wales at Aberystwyth 1933. Served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 1940-1946. President of the Malacological Society 1963-1966.
SourceObituary by J P Harding in Nature, volume 216, number 5116, pp. 728-729 1967
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DF/ZOO/257/2/22Rees, William James: Menai Bridge Science Laboratory, Wales: field notes 
DF/ZOO/257/2/21Rees, William James: John Murray Expedition : notes on actinians 
DF/ZOO/257/2/16Rees, William James: Rijksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden: exchange of specimens 
DF/ZOO/208/89Staff file: Rees, William J 
DF/ZOO/257/2/20Rees, William James: Hydroids from West Africa: determinations of various collections 
DF/ZOO/257/2/35Rees, William James: 'Occasional notes on Cnidaria' 
DF/ZOO/257/2/1Rees, William James: 'On Cladonema myersi .... : typescript and artwork for a paper (1950) 
DF/ZOO/257/2/12Rees, William James: Gough Island Scientific Survey (Atlantic Ocean) 
DF/ADM/1005/60Rees, Dr William J 
DF/ZOO/208/126Staff file: Rees, William J 
DF/ZOO/213/113/38Rees, W F and Adam, W: report on Sepiidae (Volume XI/1)  
DF/ZOO/257/2/27Rees, William James: Medusae and other coelenterates from Miami, USA 
DF/ZOO/257/2/37Rees, William James: Systematic notes on the Hydrozoa 
DF/ZOO/257/2/5Rees, William James: Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man of war : newscuttings 
DF/ZOO/257/2/38Rees, William James: 'Plymouth Collections' : notes on 39 jars of Hydrozoa 
DF/ZOO/257/2/34Rees, William James: Atlantic Hydromedusae : temperature-salinity correlations 
DF/ZOO/257/2Rees, William James: Papers 
DF/ZOO/257/2/19Rees, William James: Zanzibar plankton analyses (Dr J H Wickstead) 
DF/ZOO/257/2/3Rees, William James: Rijksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden: notes on collections 
DF/ZOO/257/2/18Rees, William James: Fauna and flora of the Gulf of Naples, Italy 
DF/ZOO/257/2/36W J Rees papers: Bibliographical notes on the orders Thecata and Athecata 
DF/ZOO/257/2/13Rees, William James: 'Evolutionary trends in the classification of capitate hydroids and medusae' 
DF/ZOO/257/2/33Rees, William James: 'A new hydroid, Podocoryne ...., from Sydney harbour', Australia 
DF/ZOO/257/2/30Rees, William James: Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) : lists of Medusae 
DF/ZOO/217/11Rees, W J: line drawings for 'Hydroids of the family Cytaeidae' Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology Series Vol 8(8), 1962 
DF/ZOO/257/2/29Rees, William James: Copenhagen Museum, Denmark: list of hydroids in their collection 
DF/ZOO/257/2/39Rees, William James: Photographs of coelenterates 
DF/ZOO/257/2/17Rees, William James: Imperial College, London, Azores expedition, 1959 
DF/ZOO/257/2/24Rees, William James: Zoological Society Symposium on Cnidaria : editing discussions for publication 
DF/ZOO/257/2/40Rees, William James: Great Barrier Reef Expedition : artwork published in Report on Actiniaria and Corallimorpha by O Carlgren 
DF/ZOO/257/2/6Rees, William James: Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man of war : sightings correspondence 
DF/ZOO/253/3Rees, William James: Correspondence and papers 
DF/ZOO/257/2/10Rees, William James: 'On three northern species of Hydractinia' : photographs by M G Sawyers to illustrate a paper (1956) 
DF/ZOO/257/2/8Rees, William James: Meteorological Office : correspondence on observations in ships' logbooks 
DF/ZOO/217/8Rees, W J: drawings and photographs for 'On a giant squid Omastrephes caroli Furtado stranded at Looe', Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Zoology Series 1(2) 
DF/ZOO/217/12Rees, W J: line drawing for 'Observations on British and Norwegian hydroids and their medusae' Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, vol 23(1), 1938 
DF/ZOO/213/113/26Rees, W J: report on Cephalopoda (Volume XI/1) 
DF/ZOO/257/2/25Rees, William James: Zoological Society Symposium on Cnidaria : artwork for Rees' paper on evolution of Hydrozoa 
DF/ZOO/257/2/23Rees, William James: Zoological Society Symposium on Cnidaria : correspondence with contributors 
DF/ZOO/257/2/9Rees, William James: A tentative classification of Hydromedusae in the Museum collections 
DF/ZOO/208/39Official diary: Rees, W J 
DF/ZOO/257/2/31Rees, William James: Rosaura cruise : coelenterate determinations 
DF/ZOO/257/2/32Rees, William James: Notes on venomous coelenterates 
DF/ZOO/217/9Rees, W J and Adam, W: photographic artwork for 46 plates from 'A review of the family Sepiidae' John Murray Expedition Scientific Reports 11: 1-170 
DF/ZOO/253/3/86Rees, William James: Correspondence, Swedmark, Dr B (Sweden) 
DF/ZOO/257/2/7Rees, William James: Physalia physalis, the Portuguese man of war (and velella): sightings correspondence 
DF/ZOO/257/2/41Rees, William James: F M R Dodman: line drawings of hydroids from the Singapore Fisheries Research collection, apparently unpublished 
DF/ZOO/257/2/2Rees, William James: Sir Lancelot cruises (1949-1950) : Medusae determinations 
DF/ZOO/257/2/4Rees, William James: E R Sykes: notes and correspondence for his obituary 
DF/ZOO/257/2/28Rees, William James: Falkland Island Dependencies Survey, Operation Tabarin : notes on coelenterates 
DF/ZOO/257/2/26Rees, William James: F M R Dodman: drawings of hydroids prepared for Rees 
DF/ZOO/257/2/14Rees, William James: Suggested plan for a monograph of the hydroids and medusae of the Mediterranean 
DF/ZOO/257/2/15Rees, William James: 'The relationships of Moerisia .... with capitate hydroids'  
DF/ZOO/257/2/11Rees, William James: Sir Douglas Mawson and the B A N Z A R E collections 
DF/ZOO/253/3/40Rees, William James: Correspondence, Hubendick, Dr B (Sweden) 
DF/ZOO/253/3/32Rees, William James: Correspondence, Fraser, Dr J H (Scotland) 
DF/ZOO/253/3/23Rees, William James: Correspondence, Dahl, Prof E (Sweden) 
DF/ZOO/254Mollusca Section Correspondence and papers 
DF/ZOO/217/13Rees, W J: watercolour drawings for 'Hydroids and Hydromedusae of the British Isles' by G L Wilkins 
DF/PH/2/6/11Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department 
DF/ZOO/257Coelenterata Section Research papers 
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