Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and predecessors: Tropical Products Institute and predecessors: Advisory and Consultative Committee Papers

This series contains agenda, minutes, papers, correspondence and records of, or relating to, various advisory and consultative committees of the Tropical Products Institute and its predecessors.

Until 1949 these are mainly files of the Imperial Institute; then of the Colonial Products Advisory Bureau (Plant and Animal) from 1949 to 1952, of the Colonial Products Laboratory from 1953 to 1957, and thereafter of the Tropical Products Institute.

The series also contains files of the Colonial Products Research Council, 1943 to 1953; of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Headquarters, 1961 to 1964, relating to the Tropical Products Institute Committee; and, from 1965, of the Ministry of Overseas Development relating to the Tropical Products Institute Advisory Committee. It also includes some copies of committee papers of the Agricultural Research Council and of minutes of the Chemistry Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

For further records of the Colonial Products Research Council, see CO 899

For correspondence and papers of the Board of Trade, 1903 to 1907, and the Department of Overseas Trade, 1925 to 1948, relating to the administration of the Imperial Institute, now the Commonwealth Institute see ED 26