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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 190
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MAF 190
Minutes, reports, correspondence and papers of the Plant Pathology Laboratory's Plant Pathology Department and its various advisory bodies. Some records date back to its predecessor, the Institute of Plant Pathology, Kew. The material is...
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MAF 190
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Pathology Laboratory: Plant Pathology Dept.
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Date (When the record was created)
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1877-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, reports, correspondence and papers of the Plant Pathology Laboratory's Plant Pathology Department and its various advisory bodies. Some records date back to its predecessor, the Institute of Plant Pathology, Kew. The material is primarily concerned with the control of pests and diseases of plants.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Agriculture, 1889-1903
- Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1903-1919
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Plant Pathology Laboratory, 1918-1955
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Plant Pathology Laboratory, 1955-1979
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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273 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1997 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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This series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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An Institute for Plant Pathology was founded in 1914 at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In 1918 this institute was reorganised; its administrative and advisory functions were transferred to the Board of Agriculture's newly formed Plant Pathology Laboratory and its research functions to Rothamsted Experimental Station. The laboratory remained at Kew until 1920, when it moved to a converted private house in Milton Road, Harpenden; in 1960 it moved again to newly constructed buildings at Hatching Green, Harpenden, which it now occupies. One of the laboratory's main functions is to provide the scientific basis for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's various policies relating to pests and diseases of plants and to methods of their control, expecially in relation to regulatory questions of international and domestic plant quarantine. The laboratory acts as a clearing house for information, gathering it from various sources, collating and interpreting it, and making it available to administrative divisions of the Ministry and others as a basis for action. Liaison is maintained with the National Agricultural Advisory Service, in particular with its entomologists and plant pathologists. The laboratory is organised in three departments, Entomology, Plant Pathology and Chemistry.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10590/
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Plant Pathology Laboratory: Plant Pathology Dept.