Catalogue description Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Records Relating to Torry Research Station

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Details of DSIR 40
Reference: DSIR 40
Title: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research: Records Relating to Torry Research Station
Description:

Files from the Headquarters of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research concerning the Torry Research Station.
Date: 1947-1962
Related material:

Records created by the Torry Research Station in Division within AY

A few files relating to the Station's administration and work are in DSIR 6
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 52 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1931 the Torry Research Station was founded at Aberdeen with the aid of the Empire Marketing Board, to study how best to improve the preservation of fish. In 1959 it took over the National Collection of Industrial Bacteria from the National Chemical Laboratory.

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