CSIR/O Division of Forest Products (mark I) (1928 - 1971)

Summary

The CSIR/O Division of Forest Products was established in 1928, part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) which became the CSIRO in 1949. In 1971 the Division was broken up, becoming part of both the Division of Building Research and the Division of Applied Chemistry.

The Division of Forest Products was transferred to form part of the Division of Forestry and Forest Products at the end of 1987. The remainder combined with the Division of Energy Technology (Vic) to
form the Division of Construction and Engineering which commenced
operations from 1 January 1988.

Related entries

Timeline

 1928 - 1971 CSIR/O Division of Forest Products (mark I)
       1966 - 1974 CSIRO Division of Applied Chemistry
       1971 - 1987 CSIRO Division of Building Research [II]
             1974 - 1987? CSIRO Division of Chemical Technology
             1974 - 1988 CSIRO Division of Applied Organic Chemistry
             1988 CSIRO Division of Construction and Engineering
                   1988 - 1990 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark I)
                   1988 - 1997 CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers
                   1988 - 2002 CSIRO Division of Building, Construction and Engineering
                         1990 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forest Products (mark II)
                         1991 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forestry
                         1997 - 2005 CSIRO Division of Molecular Science
                               1990 - 1995 CSIRO Division of Forest Products (mark II)
                               1995 - 2007 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark II)
                               1995 - 2007 CSIRO Division of Forestry and Forest Products (mark II)
                               2005 - CSIRO Molecular and Health Technologies
                                     2004 - 2007 ENSIS
                                           2007 - 2008 CSIRO Division of Forestry Biosciences
                                                 2008 - CSIRO Division of Plant Industry

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details

Books

• Schedvin, C.B; Trace, K., Historical Directory of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, 1926-1976 (Canberra: CSIRO, 1978), 101 pp. https://csiropedia.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/csiro_historical_directory_1926_1976.pdf. Details

Journal Articles

• Dargavel, John; Evans, Philip D.; and Dadswell, Gordon, 'From Science to Heritage: the History of a Wood Collection', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 43-54, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14004. Details

Resources

• Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-458255. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Primary description of agency CA 3387; CSIRO, Division of Forest Products. Registration of entity: 30 September 1987', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CA%203387. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
• Williamson, Richard E.; Higgins, Huntly G.; and Stone, Bruce A., 'Alan Buchanan Wardrop 1921-2003', Historical Records of Australian Science, 18 (1) (2007), 113-136, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR07002. Details