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The Forest Products Research Laboratory was a research institute in Buckinghamshire, mainly studying the economic value of tropical forests in the British Empire.
It was founded by the Forest Products Research Board, established in 1923, overseen by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (itself created in 1915). The Forest Products Research Board was mainly interested in the economic value of tropical forests in the British Empire.
The Forestry Conference had been held in 1923. An Empire Forestry Conference had been held earlier in 1920. There was an Empire Forestry Association. The Forest Products Research Laboratories were set up initially at the RAE in north-east Hampshire in 1925. In 1927, a new site was built at Princes Risborough. The site cost £80,000, and was officially opened on 31 July 1928. The first Director was Sir Ralph Pearson, who stayed until 1933. The site was conducting research into the Lyctus (beetle), a pest, and dry rot, caused by fungi.
Around the same time, the Imperial Forestry Institute (now part of the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) was established in Oxford. It was considered about setting up an Empire Forestry Bureau, to disseminate information about forestry research around the Empire. Also in Buckinghamshire was the Parasite Laboratory, part of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology in London, later the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology [1] which produced the Bulletin of Entomological Research, and is now represented by CABI in Oxfordshire. From February to April 1928, an Empire Timber Exhibition was held at the Imperial Institute (now the site of Imperial College London). The Parasite Laboratory closed in 1940.
In 1928, research was carried out across the UK into Dutch elm disease. In 1931 it carried out work into the Deathwatch beetle; the first investigation into this pest had been by Harold Maxwell-Lefroy at Imperial College in 1914. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visited the site on 30 April 1952. The Director from 1945 to 1960 was Prof Frank Henderson.
In August 1958, it was decided by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research that the government could not continue funding into the forestry products research, and that the timber industry should pay for it themselves, with funding being withdrawn from around 1963. The Forest Products Research Board closed in 1958, with some research passing to the Timber Development Association (now called TRADA). From 1960 to 1962 the Director was Sir Alcon Copisarow, who became the Chief Scientific Officer from 1962 to 1964 at the Ministry of Technology. From the 1960s, the site was run under the Ministry of Technology.
On 1 January 1971, the site was transferred to be overseen by the Department of the Environment. Even greater changes occurred in 1972, when it was absorbed into the BRE. [2] [3]
The site at Princes Risborough continued with work into timber research until 1988, being known as Princes Risborougb Laboratory.
It was sited in Princes Risborough in Wycombe District. It was run by the Department of the Environment.
It conducted extensive and widespread research into the strength of wood and timber, and decay of wood.
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The Canadian Forest Service is a sector of the Canadian government department of Natural Resources Canada. Part of the federal government since 1899, the CFS is a science-based policy organization responsible for promoting the sustainable development of Canada's forests and competitiveness of the forest sector to benefit present and future Canadians. Some of the research areas that the CFS is involved in include; forest fire, climate change, silviculture, soils, insects and disease, remote sensing and forest management. Since 1991 the sector has produced an annual report, The State of the Forest in Canada, which describes the status of the nation's forests and the forest industry.
The Forest Research Institute is a Natural Resource Service training institute of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education and is an institution in the field of forestry research in India for Indian Forest Service cadres and all State Forest Service cadres. It is located at Dehradun in Uttarakhand, and is among the oldest institutions of its kind. In 1991, it was declared a deemed university by the University Grants Commission.
The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) was an executive agency of the UK government branch, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). It is now part of the Food and Environment Research Agency, which is in turn part of DEFRA.
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John Golding Myers was a British entomologist and botanist. Born near Rugby, Warwickshire, he worked in New Zealand on biological control, followed by work in the UK, the Caribbean and Latin America before moving to Sudan as Government Botanist. He died in Sudan at the age of 44.
The Building Research Establishment (BRE) is a centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust. It is a former UK government national laboratory that was privatised in 1997. BRE provides research, advice, training, testing, certification and standards for both public and private sector organisations in the UK and abroad. It has its headquarters in Garston, Hertfordshire, England, with regional sites in Glasgow, Swansea, the US, India, the Middle East and China.
Andrew Delmar Hopkins was an American entomologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Though self-taught, his scientific understanding of forest entomology was exceptional. He received an honorary doctorate from West Virginia University and in 1902 he went to work for the US Department of Agriculture. He was subsequently named head of the newly created Division of Forest Insect Investigations. He became a specialist in the bark beetle family Scolytidae, especially the genus Dendroctonus, species of which are the most destructive insects in coniferous forests of North America. His taxonomic monographs on these beetles are classics. He proposed the Law of Bioclimatics and he also developed the Hopkins Notes and Records System, a system he brought into the federal government when he first came to work for the Division of Entomology in the late 1890s. Hopkins’ research is one of the cornerstones of entomology on the North American continent and he is often referred to as the “father of North American forest entomology.”
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Geoffrey Vernon Brooke Herford CBE was a British research entomologist and civil servant.
George Salt was an English entomologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
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