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Colonial Insecticides, Fungicides and Herbicides Committee: Herbicides and Arboricides...
Catalogue reference: CO 927/137/5
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This record is about the Colonial Insecticides, Fungicides and Herbicides Committee: Herbicides and Arboricides... dating from 1949-1952 in the series Colonial Office: Research Department: Original Correspondence. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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CO 927/137/5
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Date (When the record was created)
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1949-1952
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Description (What the record is about)
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Colonial Insecticides, Fungicides and Herbicides Committee: Herbicides and Arboricides Sub Committees: papers circulated.
Includes 2 photographs depicting: Waturi Peninsular, Kenya: aerial views before and after spraying with insecticide trichlorophenoxyacetate revealing tracks of tsetse fly. See also CO 927/139/3, CO 927/145/6 (duplication). Dated 1952.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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28105/9/2
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- International
- Research
- Africa
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CO 927
Colonial Office: Research Department: Original Correspondence
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