Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and predecessors: Tropical Products Institute and predecessors: Registered Files

This series consists of registered files relating to scientific investigations and enquiries undertaken by the Tropical Products Institute from 1957, and its predecessors the Plant and Animal Products Department of the Imperial Institute, to 1949; the Colonial Products Advisory Bureau (Plant and Animal), 1949 to 1952; and the Colonial Products Laboratory, 1953 to 1957.

The series also contains files of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research relating to the Institute, 1959 to 1965, and of the Colonial Products Research Council (later the Colonial Products Council), 1959 to 1965.

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