| Activity | 1910 Formation of the Entomological Research Committee (Tropical Africa). One field entomologist is posted to East Africa and one to West Africa to collect and study insects injurious to humans, crops and animals. Collected specimens are sent to the British Museum (Natural History) aka Natural History Museum, in London for identification.
1910 Bulletin of Entomological Research launched.
1913 Formation of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology. Its chief functions are the identification of insect pests and the issue of a monthly periodical giving summaries of all current entomological literature (the first abstract journal was Review of Applied Entomology in two parts Series A - Agricultural, Series B - Medical and Veterinary).
1920 Imperial Bureau of Mycology at Kew established for the identification of fungal diseases of plants, animals and humans and the abstracting of the mycological literature.
1922 First issue of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology’s abstract journal, Review of Applied Mycology.
1927 Imperial Agricultural Research Conference (IARC) held in London. The IARC agreed to the formation of a number of new bureaux and that they should each produce an abstract journal on their own subject.
1930 The Imperial Agricultural Bureaux is officially formed as a Commonwealth organization. The Imperial Bureau of Entomology becomes the Imperial Institute of Entomology and the Imperial Bureau of Mycology becomes the Imperial Mycological Institute. An offshoot of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology later evolves into the International Institute of Biological Control.
1933 The adminstration of the Bureaux of Entomology and Mycology are transferred to the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux.
1938 Bureaux of Dairy Science and Forestry merge with the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux
1947 500 cultures are transferred from The Lister Institute to the Imperial Mycological Institute (IMI) after a British Commonwealth Scientific Official Conference recommends that the IMI should be responsible for living cultures of fungi other than medical fungi and yeasts.
1947 Imperial Agricultural Bureaux becomes the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB).
1947 Imperial Institute of Entomology becomes the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology.
1948 Imperial Mycological Institute becomes Commonwealth Mycological Institute.
1966 The Bureau of Agricultural Economics becomes part of CAB.
1986 Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux becomes CAB International.
1987 Head Office, database and journal production are centralised to Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
1993 The CABI roundel is introduced and replaces the world logo.
1998 International Institute of Entomology, International Institute of Biocontrol, International Mycological Institute and International Institute of Parasitology merge to form CABI Bioscience
see also African Entomological Research Committee |