Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Research Boards and Committees 1916-1939: Correspondence and Minutes

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Reference: DSIR 3
Title: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Research Boards and Committees 1916-1939: Correspondence and Minutes
Description:

This series contains many of the records of research boards and committees set up by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and wound up by 1939. The files contain records of meetings, reports, correspondence leading to the setting up of some of the committees, constitutions and appointment of members.

Includes records of the Lee Committee on Patents (DSIR 3/255-261)
Date: 1915-1940
Arrangement:

Alphabetically by organisation.
Related material:

Records of research boards and committees which continued in existence after 1939 are in the division, Division within DSIR

Scientific and technical records of these Boards and Committees are in DSIR 43
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 392 file(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The research boards set up by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) were of an enduring nature, whereas the Committees tended to be wound up after a relatively short period, being created by the department as occasion arose to supervise investigations into particular problems. Their appointment was the result of either an initiative by DSIR in response to a recognised need, or to pioneer work of a DSIR research establishment which aroused the interest of industry, or of an application by a noted research worker for financial assistance in the furtherance of a particular line of research.

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