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Guide to the Lauren R. Donaldson Papers
1906-1994



 
Record Group No.:37.06.2932
Accession No.:2932-007
Creator:Donaldson, Lauren R., creator
Title:Lauren R. Donaldson papers
Date Span:1906-1994
Bulk:1940-1990
Quantity: 29 cubic feet (42 boxes)
Languages:Collection materials are in English.
Lauren R. Donaldson in Japan, 1966. Photographer unknown. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries


Biographical Note

Lauren R. Donaldson was a professor of fisheries and director of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory and its successors at the University of Washington. Donaldson was born near Tracy, Minnesota in 1903 and received his B.A. degree in 1926 from Intermountain Union College in Helena, Montana. After arriving in Seattle in 1930, he earned his M.S. degree (1931) and Ph.D. degree (1939) in Fisheries at the University of Washington. Donaldson joined the University of Washington faculty in 1932 as an assistant instructor and launched a program to improve the size, growth rate, and spawning capacity of rainbow trout. Donaldson was well-known for his selective breeding experiments that produced five species of hatchery-raised salmon and a super-strain of rainbow trout, known as the Donaldson trout, which came to be raised world-wide. He also secured funding for a hatchery on the campus and, through that project, demonstrated that salmon can be reared to return to their point of release, establishing a salmon run which brings 5,000 to 7,000 fish back to the University campus each year.

Another significant aspect of Donaldson's career was his involvement in radiobiological studies in both field and laboratory settings between 1946 and 1973. In 1943, the Applied Fisheries Laboratory was established at the University of Washington under the authority of the Manhattan District of the Army Corps of Engineers. The initial purpose of the laboratory was to study the effects of radiation on aquatic organisms. Lauren Donaldson was chosen to direct the laboratory, and did so until 1958 when he headed its successor, the Laboratory of Radiation Biology (renamed the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology in 1966).

In 1946, Donaldson, his Applied Fisheries Laboratory colleague Arthur D. Welander, and Washington State Game Department biologist Clarence F. Pautzke, were selected to serve as radiation monitors for Operation Crossroads, the first atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. They also performed sampling and analysis of specimens as part of the unofficial "Division of Radiobiology" that formed within the expedition's Radiological Safety Section in response to growing interest, on the part of the scientists present, in the disposition of radioactive material through biological systems. Altogether the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls were the subject of seven separate series of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, and Donaldson planned or led the radiobiological activities for surveys and resurveys of Bikini and Eniwetok in 1947, 1948 (Operation Sandstone), 1949, 1952 (Operation Ivy, the first hydrogen bomb test), 1954 (Operation Castle), 1956 and 1964 to determine the effects of radiation on the islands' flora and fauna, and to assess the extent of recovery from exposure with the passage of time. In June 1954, some months after the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Fukuryu Maru were exposed to radioactive fallout from the Operation Castle tests at Bikini, Donaldson participated in a joint Japanese-American scientific conference, which permitted American scientists to share their knowledge of radiation and its effects with their Japanese counterparts, significantly easing tensions arising from the incident.

Another significant aspect of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory's work with the Atomic Energy Commission was the Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program, which examined, through the use of radioactively tagged minerals, the absorption of nutrients by the relatively impoverished ecosystem of Fern Lake in Kitsap County, Washington. Donaldson also served as consultant and observer for tests in Nevada in the spring of 1951, acted as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission on the Hanford Engineering Works, and drafted a plan for the biological study of the area designated for Project Chariot (a never-implemented plan to create a harbor on the coast of northwest Alaska).

Donaldson lent his expertise to the planning of the Seattle Aquarium, serving on the Aquarium Committee of the Washington Oceanographic Commission.

Donaldson retired from the faculty in 1973; however, he continued to work on campus as professor emeritus, meeting with researchers, faculty, and students. Professor Donaldson received numerous awards, including the Shinkishi Hatai Medal from the Japanese government in 1975 and the University of Washington's Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus award in 1987. He died on November 22, 1998.


Scope and Content

The particular strength of the Donaldon papers is the extensive collection of project files on radiation projects carried out in the University of Washington's Applied Fisheries Laboratory, as well as logbooks, reports, notes, photo albums, scrapbooks and other materials from the radiological resurveys of Bikini Atoll and nearby islands after atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s. Project files on other trout and salmon research are also present. Correspondence makes up approximately one third of the accession and includes both intradepartmental correspondence within the University of Washington College of Fisheries and correspondence with Donaldson's colleagues outside the University. Also included are Donaldson's papers from his service on the Washington State Oceanographic Commission, particularly concerning planning for the Seattle Aquarium. The papers also contain a substantial number of Donaldson's speeches and writings, his Shinkishi Hatai Medal as well as award plaques and commemorative pins and coins.

Major correspondents include


Arrangement

Arranged into:
Personal papers, 1906-1994
Eighteen subgroups,1931-1994


Physical/Technical Access

Listening equipment necesary for reel-to-reel tape and viewing equipment necessary for film. Contact Special Collections for details


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Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted. Contact repository for details.


Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.


Preferred Citation

Lauren R. Donaldson papers, Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.


Acquisition Info

Source: Lauren R. Donaldson, 1981-1988; Jack Donaldson, 1999; Robert Goff, 2004.


Processing Info

Processed by Eric Anderson and Janet Polata in 2005-2008.


Separated Material

Five Metskers and United States Geological Survey maps were transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Map Collection January 13, 2006.


Bibliography

Neal O. Hines. Proving Ground: An Account of Radiobiological Studies in the Pacific, 1946-1961. (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1962).

Neal O. Hines. Fish of Rare Breeding: Salmon and Trout of the Donaldson Strain. (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976).

Robert R. Stickney. Flagship: A History of Fisheries at the University of Washington. (Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1989).


Related Material

University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Biology Records, Accession #00-065.

University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Ecology Records, Accession #90-60


Inventory

 
Box/Folder Date
Personal Papers1906-1994
1/1Biographical Features1962, undated
Outgoing Letters
1/2-3of Donaldson and William K. Hershberger1987-1989
Historical Note : Dr. Hershberger took over maintenance of the Donaldson strain of rainbow trout after Donaldson's retirement.
General Correspondence
1/4Alaska Department of Fish and Game1957-1975, 1980
1/5Alaska Department of Fisheries1951-1957
1/6Allen, George H.1956-1970
1/7Alpena Community College1967-1977
1/8-10American Fisheries Society1934-1939, 1954-1991, undated
1/11American Institute of Biological Sciences1967
1/12American Society of Limnology and Oceanography1972
1/13AmFac, Inc.1973
1/14Atlantic Monthly Press1960, 1967
1/15Bardach, John E.1966-1968
1/16Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories1968-1989
1/17Bill, Alexander1980-1992
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of a visit by Donaldson to Cypress Island circa 1990, including pictures of fish and fish traps.
1/18California Academy of Sciences1955-1969
1/19California Department of Fish and Game1935, 1939, 1950-1970
1/20Canada (governmental departments and agencies)1969-1971
1/21Canada Department of Fisheries1950-1954, 1965-1969, 1981
1/22-23Canada Fisheries Research Board1937-1939, 1950-1972
1/24Chapman, Wilbert McLeod1947-1950
1/25Chelan County Public Utility District No.11960-1974
1/26Chow, Ti1953-1986
1/27Colorado (state agencies and departments) 1937-1939, 1952-1965
1/28-29Crown Zellerbach Corporation1966-1978
Scope and Content: Contains photographs of the overflow structure of a Crown Zellerbach facility, inluding the structure, the channel, and the overflow meeting the Elwha River.
1/30Donaldson, John R.1951, 1965-1984
1/31Ellis, James N.1951-1952, 1967-1974
1/32Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations1950-1972
1/33Foster, Fred J.1932-1939
1/34Fullerton, James 1957-1968
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the pump house, office/hatchery building and ponds at Fullerton's Crescent Fish Farms on the Nicomekl River in British Columbia.
1/35-40General Mills1959-1973
1/41Germany (governmental departments and agencies)1967-1973
1/42Grotto Foundation1983-1989
1/43Gudjonsson, Thor1959-1983
1/44Gunstrom, Gary1967-1973
1/45Halme, Erkki1954-1969, undated
1/46Hastings, Waldon H.1972-1973
2/1-3Haydon, John M.1969-1974
2/4Hill, Louis W.1973-1989
2/5-6Hines, Neal O.1968-1977, undated
2/7Hiyama, Yoshio1954-1967
2/8Idaho Department of Fish and Game1935-1954, 1965
2/9Idaho Power Company1978
2/10India, Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation1960-1962, 1964
2/11International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission1941-1958, 1969-1973
Scope and Content: Includes a photo of Donaldson circa 1941.
2/12Japan (governmental departments and agencies)1957-1977, undated
2/13Japan (universities and companies)1957-1977, undated
Scope and Content: The "Report to Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" includes photographs of Donaldson's visit to Tokyo University of Fisheries in September/October 1973.
2/14Japan Marine Products Photo Materials Association1971-1973, undated
2/15-16Japan Salmon Resources Preservation Association1968-1970
2/17Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd.1966-1976
2/18Katz, Max1950-1958
2/19Kim, Myung Hee1990-1992
2/20King County Prosecutor's Office1963-1964
2/21Kittelsen, Arne H.1967-1970
2/22Lowman, Frank G.1969-1979
2/23Magnuson, Warren G.1963-1968
2/24Marine Digest Publishing Company1965-1967
2/25Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries1954, 1960, 1972-1973
2/26Menasveta, Deb1962-1979
2/27Michigan Department of Conservation1955-1968
2/28Minnesota: governmental departments and agencies1968-1981
Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of Dennis Anderson holding a 19.5-pound Donaldson rainbow trout.
2/29Montana Department of Fish and Game1935-1971
2/30Moore, Milo1951-1972
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the harbor at Piraeus, Greece, and Greek fishing vessels (purse seines, trawlers) and a Greek marine research vessel.
2/31Moore-Clark Company1972-1973
2/32Morrison-Woodsworth-Crosby, Inc.1965-1967
2/33Naidu, Janakiram R.1965-1968, 1992
2/34National Science Foundation1960-1970
2/35New York Department of Environmental Conservation1936, 1955-1977
2/36New Zealand (governmental departments and agencies)1970
2/37New Zealand Conservator of Wildlife1967-1973
2/38Northwest Pulp And Paper Association1960-1966, 1977
2/39Norway Directorate of Fisheries1950, 1966-1979
2/40Ocean Systems, Inc.1970-1971, undated
2/41Oceanic Institute (Makapuu Point, Waimanalo, Hawaii)1966-1969
2/42Okada, Yaichiro1954-1967
2/43Oregon (various departments)1963, 1970-1979
2/44Oregon Aqua-Foods, Inc.1973-1984
2/45-46Oregon Fish Commission1935, 1945-1973
2/47Oregon State Game Commission1948- 1968
2/48-49Oregon State University1951-1974
2/50Pacific Fishery Biologists1938-1939, 1955-1971
3/1-3Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission1953-1956, 1968-1974
3/4Pautzke, Clarence F.1961-1971
3/5Pennsylvania Fish Commission1958-1959
3/6Pritchard, Joel1973-1976
Scope and Content: Correspondence regarding United States Congress Fisheries Coordinating Council
3/7Public Utility District No. 1 of Franklin County1961-1965
3/8Puget Sound Power & Light Company1961, 1973-1979
3/9Radiation Research1967-1971
3/10Ralston Purina Company1955-1968
3/11Rocky Mountain College1955-1958, 1966
3/12Rollefson, Gunnar1953-1971
3/13Salmon Research Trust of Ireland1960-1976
3/14Satia, Benedict P. (Ben)1975-1992
3/15-22Sea Pool Fisheries, Ltd.1967-1971
3/23Seattle City Light1960-1965
3/24Seattle Milk Fund1969-1978
3/25Seversun, Richard F.1988
3/26Sigma Xi, University of Washington Chapter1950-1951, 1968-1976
3/27Sømme, Sven1952-1961
3/28Stanford University1935, 1939, 1950, 1954, 1966-1977
3/29State College of Washington1951-1957
3/30Stevenson, William Alfred 1961-1970
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of Stevenson, his family, friends, boat and a fish he caught.
3/31Sunkist Growers1971-1975
3/32Svärdson, Gunnar1959-1968
3/33Tacoma Poggie Club1952-1962
3/34Thailand (governmental departments and agencies)1955-1971
3/35Thompson, Fred A.1938, 1950-1951
3/36Tokyo University of Fisheries, Laboratory of Fish-Culture1973
3/37Tomiyana, Tetuo1964-1983
3/38Universitet I Oslo1952, 1963-1972
3/39United States (various agencies and departments)1965-1972
3/40United States Atomic Energy Commission1954-1971
3/41United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biology and Medicine1953, 1967-1969
3/42United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research1970-1972
3/43United States Atomic Energy Commission Richland Operations Office1967-1968
3/44United States Bonneville Power Administration1968-1970
3/45-49United States Embassy, Tokyo (Clinton E. Atkinson, Fishery Attaché)1966- 1973
Scope and Content: Folder #46 includes photographs of a Japanese aquaculture facility and of fish samples.
3/50United States Environmental Protection Agency1973
3/51United States Federal Power Commission1962
3/52-57United States Fish and Wildlife Service1940-1977
4/1-5United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland1951-1977
4/6United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Seattle1957-1969, 1992
4/7United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish Disease Laboratory1969-1975
4/8United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish Nutrition Laboratory1957-1969
4/9United States Bureau of Fisheries1935-1939
4/10United States Department of the Interior1937-1939, 1969, 1971
4/11United States National Fisheries Center and Aquarium1965-1966, undated
Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium Advisory Consultants taken April 29 or 30, 1965, in Washington, D.C.
4/12United States National Marine Fisheries Service1970-1989
4/13United States National Marine Fisheries Service (Portland)1970-1976
4/14United States National Marine Fisheries Service (Seattle)1970-1986
4/15-16United States National Sea Grant Program 1970-1976
4/17United States Department of the Navy (James Forrestal)undated (circa 1946)
4/18United States Public Health Service1953-1958, 1970
4/19United States Senate Committee on Commerce1968
4/20United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Magnuson, Warren G.; Moore, Milo)1955-1961
4/21United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands1955-1956
4/22University of Alaska1982-1984
4/23University of California1950-1978
4/24University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources1954-1973
4/25University of Rhode Island1970-1973
4/26University of Wisconsin Zoology Department1950-1966
4/27Washington (various state agencies and departments)1935-1937, 1951-1953, 1964, 1977, 1979, undated
4/28Washington, Office of the Attorney General 1964-1975
4/29-37Washington, Department of Fisheries1937-1938-1985
4/38-40Washington Department of Game1936, 1948-1964
Scope and Content: Includes Fishery Management Divison
5/1-2Washington Department of Game1965-1979
Scope and Content: Includes Fishery Management Divison
5/3Washington Public Utility Districts' Association1960-1967
5/4Washington State Sportsmen's Council1950, 1959, 1973
5/5Washington State Trout Grower's Association1953-1956
5/6Williams, Hill1967-1971
5/7Winther, John K.1957-1960
5/8Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources1968-1969
5/9Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution1972-1979
5/10Wright, James E.1970-1971
5/11-28Miscellaneous correspondents A-Ica. 1940s-1990s
Scope and Content: Go-Gw (folder #25): A letter from Harold Goodwin dated July 28, 1977, includes a photo of an unidentified geographical feature (referred to in the letter as a mountain in the making)
Hen-Hu (folder #27): A letter from Dr. Karl Herde includes a photo of Dr. Herde and his wife Edna in Alaska in 1986.
6/1-26Miscellaneous correspondents J-Warca. 1940s-1990s
Scope and Content: L (folder #4): A letter from Charles Lee contains a 1988 photo of Lee with his wife and son.
Mi-My (folder #7): A letter from Sigeru Motoda includes a 1983 photograph of Donaldson, Motoda and others at a snack bar in Shimizu, Japan.
Se-Si (folder #19): Includes photos of Jeff Silverstein, his wife and son.
7/1-4Miscellaneous correspondents Was-Zca. 1940s-1990s
General Correspondence Regarding
7/5Unidentified1931-1970, undated
7/6-7Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Harper's and Reader's Digest)1966-1967
7/8Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Look and Popular Mechanics)1961-1964
7/9Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Nutrition Today)1966-1967
7/10Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Sea Frontiers)1967-1968
7/11-12Egg Shipments to Japanese Governmental Entities, Universities, and Companies1971-1977
7/13Fisheries Reprints1960-1968
7/14Hanford Litigation1993-1994, undated
7/15McConahy Estate1961-1968
7/16Mossbacks1978-1979
Scope and Content: Contains correspondence regarding, and copies of, " Fish Hatchery Memoirs," an informal newsletter for retired federal fish hatchery workers.
7/17National Sea Grant College Award1971
Scope and Content: Donaldson was the first recipient of this award.
7/18Power Plants1975-1976
7/19-21Rainbow Trout1959-1967
7/22-24Rainbow Trout Egg Requests1959-1972
7/25-33Salmon and Trout (General)1965-1974
7/34The Salmonid Fishes as a Natural Livestock1983
Seattle Aquarium
General Notes: See also material from the Washington Oceanographic Commission and Seattle Aquarium Director Screening Committee, in boxes and folders 38/22-28, 40/21, 41/2-6 .
7/35Seattle City Council1969-1972
7/36Seattle Department of Community Development1970
7/37Seattle Mayor's Office1968-1970
7/38Tuai, Liem E. (City Council member)1970-1972
7/39Miscellaneous Correspondents1968-1972
7/40Tag Returns1972-1973
8/1-2University of Washington Fisheries Holding Pond1960-1962
8/3University of Washington Fisheries Holding Pond Contributions1961-1964
8/4"Visit of China Guests"1989, undated
8/5Washington Department of Commerce and Economic Development1966-1970
8/6Winton Gift1968
Interdepartmental Correspondence
8/7University of Washington Assistant Comptroller for Sponsored Research (Treibel, Wallace C.)1964-1965
8/8-12University of Washington Graduate School1950-1972
8/13University of Washington Grant and Contract Services1967-1968
University of Washington President's Office
8/14-15Miscellaneous Correspondence1946-1969, 1990
39/1Correspondence regarding School of Fisheries Dean1958
Restrictions on Access: Restricted
Scope and Content: Includes correspondence from Presidents Odegaard and Schmitz.
8/16University of Washington Quinault Resource Development Advisory Panel 1970-1971
8/17University of Washington Radiological Sciences 1970-1972, undated
8/18-22Washington Sea Grant Program 1970-1990
8/23-36Miscellaneous A-Z1940s-1980s
Intradepartmental Correspondence
University of Washington School of Fisheries1935-1958
39/2Applicant Information1947
Restrictions on Access: Restricted
39/3Student Evaluations1953-1954
Restrictions on Access: Restricted
8/37-46University of Washington College of Fisheries1959-1969
9/1-9University of Washington College of Fisheries1970-1992
9/10University of Washington College of Fisheries, Fisheries Institute1961-1991, undated
9/11University of Washington College of Fisheries On-Campus Facilities Committee 1969-1973
Radiation Projects
Arrangement: These files are arranged according to Donaldson's project numbers and project section numbers.
General Notes: See also the project scrapbooks in boxes 20 through 24, and the slides in boxes 27 and 31.
9/12 Monthly Reports; Summary of Operations1943-1947
9/13Chronology Charts, Project List and Summary1946-1948, undated
9/14-17Logbooks, Office of Scientific Research and Development Projects1944-1950
9/18Project I Telephone Transcript and Contract Draft1943
Project I: Basic Studies of the Effect of X-rays upon Fish in Various States of Development
9/19-20Log Book1944, 1948, undated
40/1Project Chronology Charts    OVERSIZE1944
Section I (Chinook salmon adults from Green River) and Section II (Chinook salmon eggs from Section I)
Box/Folder
9/21Office of Scientific Research and Development Original Papers, Chinook A and B Series.1943-1944, undated
40/2Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary    OVERSIZE1944, undated
9/22Chinook Salmon from Green River, Markings, etc.1943-1944, undated
9/23Chinook Salmon from Soos Creek Egg Mortality Per Week 1943, undated
9/24Egg Mortalities and Abnormalities1943-1947, undated
9/25Statistical Analysis. Seymour, A. H.1947, undated
9/26Mortality Analysis, Egg and Fry (Revised)undated
9/27Recovery of Chinook Salmon, Samish River1946-1947, undated
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of fish.
9/28Scale Samples Mortality1946-1947, undated
9/29Rochester Statistical Group Report1945, undated
9/30Samish River Returns1947-1949, undated
9/31Samish Chinook Report. Rough Draft of Report Number UWFL 13. Appendix to UWFL 61948
Scope and Content: Report contains a photograph of a magnified salmon scale.
9/32Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary (write-up started by K. Bonham)1946-1947, undated
Section III: Mature sockeye salmon adults from Cultus Lake, British Columbia, and Section IV: Sockeye salmon eggs from Section III
9/33Sockeye Log Book: Return to Cultus Lakeundated
9/34Sockeye Log Book II: Eggs from Section IIIundated
9/35Sockeye Log Book II: Adults1943
9/36-37Statistical Analysis of Sockeye Mortalities1944, undated
40/3Statistical Analysis of Sockeye Mortalities    OVERSIZE1944, undated
9/38Weight Measurements, Miscellaneous including Sockeye1945, undated
10/1Section V: Steelhead Trout Adults from Columbia River; Miscellaneous Data1942-1947, undated
10/2Section V and Section XV: Steelhead Trout Adults from Columbia River (Leavenworth); Steelhead Log Book IIIundated
Sections VI and VII: Chinook Salmon Eyed Eggs from Green River
10/3 Original of Published Report Number UWFL 8 (X-Ray Effects on Chinook Embryos and Larvae) 1948, undated
10/4Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book II 1944
10/5Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book III1944
10/6Chinook Salmon Irradiated in Eyed-Egg Stages, Lot Numbers 1A to 21A, Welander, A.D. 1944, undated
40/4Oversize Tables: Fish Measurements and Cell Counts    OVERSIZE1944
Section XII and Section XIII: Male Silver Salmon
Box/Folder
10/7 Chinook Salmon Work Sheets: Egg Mortalities and Rough Draft1944, undated
10/8Original Papers Chinook, including "B" 1944-1945, undated
10/9Write-Up and Table Figures: Chinook Salmon from Columbia Riverundated
10/10 Log Book: Chinook Salmon Adults 1944
10/11 Log Book: Chinook Salmon Eggs from Section XII1944
Section VIII
10/12-20Draft of A.D. Welander's doctoral thesis, Studies of the Effects of Roentgen Rays on the Growth and Development of the Embryos and Larvae of the Chinook Salmon (oncorhynchus tschawysha)1945
Scope and Content: Includes photographs (photomicrographs) of salmon larvae, embryos, skin, and internal organs.
10/21 Silver Salmon Log Book: Males Only 1944, undated
40/5Photograph    OVERSIZEundated
Scope and Content: Oversize photograph (several prints taped together) of salmon skull and skin.
Section IX: Rainbow trout yearlings from University of Washington stock
Box/Folder
10/22Rainbow Trout Log Book I, Adults (Closed Out)undated
10/23Miscellaneous Data, Rainbow Adults (Section Discarded 1944)1944-1945, undated
10/24Section XV: Steelhead trout adults from Columbia River (Leavenworth), and XVI: Steelhead trout eggs from Section XVundated
10/25 Section XVIII: Original Papers: Goldfishundated
Project III: Bikini Experiments of 1946 ("Operation Crossroads")
10/26Expense Statements, Equipment Lists, Photo Logs1946, undated
10/27Donaldson's log book1946
10/28"Bikini Log Notes - LRD"1946-1951
Scope and Content: Typed transcript of Donaldson's 1946 Bikini log, with a subsequently-written introduction describing the events leading up to his participation in the project.
10/29Notes1946
10/30Yearbook - U.S.S. Bairokoundated, but presumably 1946 or 1947
Project IV: Bikini Experiments of 1947 ("Bikini Resurvey Project")
10/31Log1947
10/32Personnel 1947
10/33Counting Room Log undated
10/34Equipment1946-1947, undated
10/35Miscellaneous Notes1943, 1947, undated
10/36Report Maps1947, undated
10/37Log of Jesse P. Pflueger1947
10/38Orders to Duty of Resurvey Staff from United States Navy1947, undated
11/1-6Bikini Scientific Resurvey Technical Report1947
11/7 Project VIII: Cooperation Project with the Hanford Engineering Works; Rainbow Trout Eggs from Hanford1951-1953
Scope and Content: Primarily fish mortality records.
11/8 Project IX: Operation Sandstone (Eniwetok); Donaldson's log of the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll1948
11/9 Project X: Bikini Resurvey of 1948; Donaldson's Log1948
11/10Project XI: Bikini Resurvey of 1949 1949
Scope and Content: Donaldson's Log
11/11-12 "Operation Ivy." First Hydrogen Bomb Test1952
Scope and Content: Includes logs of Lauren Donaldson (which includes his identification badges) and Allyn H. Seymour from the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll
11/13 "Operation Castle" Eniwetok Atoll1954
Scope and Content: Donaldson's notes
11/14Bikini-Eniwetok-Rongelap Field Survey1964
Scope and Content: Typed and bound summary of scientific staff's daily logs.
Low-level Chronic Irradiation of Salmon
Scope and Content: This project was supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which later became the Energy Research and Development Administration.
11/15General Correspondence1969-1976
11/16-18Project Proposals1967-1970
11/19Project Summaries1968-1969
11/20Equipment, Expenditures, Budget1967-1969
11/21Data1968-1973
11/22-30Progress Reports1968-1976
Scope and Content: Reports for 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974 include photographs of fish, fish gonads, and deformed fingerlings (immature fish).
11/31Papers based on irradiation research1964-1967
Scope and Content: By Donaldson and others; the paper for the Eleventh Pacific Science Conference includes a photo of the radiation facility.
Project Files
11/32Adams River Fingerling Experiment1943
Eagle Creek (Oregon) Selective Breeding Program
Scope and Content: A joint research program of the College of Fisheries and the Fish and Wildlife Service at the Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery in Oregon, intended to develop techniques of selective breeding applicable to fish culture operations on the Columbia River and to improve the quality and survival of silver salmon and steelhead trout runs.
11/33Project Description1968
General Correspondence.
11/34United States Fish and Wildlife Service1964-1972
11/35Roley, Dennis D.1972-1973
11/36General Information1966, 1972, undated
11/37-38National Fish Hatcheries Management Charts1967-1971
11/39United States Fish and Wildlife Service Conference Reports1962-1969
11/40Genetic Selectionundated
11/41-42Pete Castle Workshops1966-1967, undated
11/43-48 Coho Salmon1961-1972, undated
Scope and Content: Includes project data, notes, and summaries of releases and returns for brood years 1961-1972.
40/6 Coho Salmon    OVERSIZE1972, undated
12/1-28Silver Salmon1961-1971
Scope and Content: Includes files on production stock, genetic improvement, spawning, survival, releases and returns for brood years 1961-1971, although not all data types are present for all brood years
40/7Silver Salmon    OVERSIZEundated
12/29-46Steelhead Trout1962-1970
Scope and Content: Includes general information as well as information on genetic improvement, spawning and survival.
12/47-48Steelhead/Rainbow cross1967-1978
Scope and Content: Mostly size data.
12/49-51Miscellaneous1972-1978, undated
40/8Miscellaneous    OVERSIZE1978
Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program
Box/Folder
12/52General Correspondence: United States Atomic Energy Commission1968-1971
12/53-56United States Atomic Energy Commission Proposals1967-1970
12/57Contract1972
Reports
12/58Budget and Project Report (fiscal year)1968
12/59Research summary1969
12/60Fern Lake Geologic Study (Palmer)1957 or 1979
13/1Cladocera and Copepoda manuscript1970
Scope and Content: By Rufus Kiser, with Donaldson's review comments. Report includes three photographs showing Fern Lake and rushes and sedge growing there.
13/2-6Miscellaneous Reports1958-1972
Scope and Content: Progress reports and other papers by researchers associated with the project, as well as one report published by the University of Washington. "Fern Lake Trace Mineral Metabolism Program" includes photographs of Fern Lake and researchers.
13/7"Fern Lake Misc."1969-1970, undated
Scope and Content: Notes and accident report.
13/8-13Photographsca1969-1970
Scope and Content: Two folders of captioned photographs originally stored together in a binder, showing the estuary of Rocky Creek; the cabin where researchers stayed; views of Fern Lake from the eastern and western shores; researchers including Rufus Kiser, James Olson and Paul Olson; equipment and facilities including the outlet structure, a recording rain gauge, a recording pyrheliometer, water level and water temperature gauges, an electric directional fish counter and equipment for studying movement of elements within a Douglas fir ecosystem; a female crayfish with eggs; a steelhead trout; a lecture for high school teachers enrolled in a summer radiation biology institute.
Two folders of miscellaneous photographs of Fern Lake and the surrounding vegetation, the researchers and their equipment.
13/14-15Matamek1977-1979
Scope and Content: Correspondence and reports about the salmon-related research project at the Matamek Research Station (property of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) on the Matamek River in Quebec Province, Canada, on which Donaldson was asked to advise.
Quesnal District (British Columbia)
Scope and Content: A project to investigate possibilities for the rehabilitation of depleted fish runs.
13/16General Correspondence1941-1943
13/17Summary of Activities1941-1943
13/18Reports1941-1943
Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the Quesnel, Horsefly and Mitchell Rivers, and a dam on the South Fork of the Quesnel.
13/19 Log Books1942
40/9 Maps    OVERSIZEundated
13/20Horsefly Lake Temperature1941-1942
13/21General Notes from Commission Files1947, undated
13/22Sockeye Temperature Experiment1941
13/23-34River Water; Bacteriological Analysis1944-1950
Salmon Selective Breeding Program
Scope and Content: This ongoing research project was funded first by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and then by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service.
14/1-8Project Proposals1966-1973
14/9-11Contracts1961-1968
14/12-17Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods1975-1988
40/22Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods; Drawing of Cooker    OVERSIZEundated
Subject Files
Box/Folder
14/18American Samoa1906, undated
14/19-22"China Visit"1982-1986
Scope and Content: Donaldson's folder title has been retained; this mat