Corporate Body

Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (1900 - 2003)

Colony and State of Queensland

From
1900
Queensland, Australia
To
2003
Functions
Advisory or regulatory body and Food or beverage industry
Reference No
Queensland Archives Agency ID: 3378

Summary

In 1900 an Act of Parliament set up the Bureau of Sugar Experimental Stations.

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Details

The Bureau published: Cane growers' quarterly bulletin (ISBN 0810-3240) vols. 1(1) July 1933 - 46(2) October 1982 (succeeded by BSES bulletin).

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Books

  • Fifty years of scientific progress: a historical review of the half century since the foundation of the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (Brisbane: Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, 1950), 92 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Grigg, Peter, 'Entomology in the Service of the State: Queensland Scientists and the Campaign Against Cane Beetles, 1895-1950', Historical Records of Australian Science, 16 (1) (2005), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR05004. Details
  • Griggs, Peter, 'Defeating Cane Diseases: Plant Pathologists and the Development of Disease Control Strategies in the Australian Sugar Cane Industry, 1920-1950', Historical Records of Australian Science, 18 (1) (2007), 43-73, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06008. Details
  • Kerr, John D., 'Introduction of statistical design and analysis by the Queensland Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 44-53. Details

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