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Colonial Research Committee THE fourth annual report of the Colonial Research Committee, published under the title "Colonial Research 1946-47"*, together with the fourth annual report of the Colonial Products Research Council, the third annual report of the Colonial Social Science Research Council and the second annual reports of the Colonial Medical Research Committee and of the Committee for Colonial Agricultural, Animal Health and Forestry Research, covers the period April 1, 1946-March 31, 1947, and refers again to the lightening of the task of the Committee by the creation of separate bodies to advise the Secretary of State on special aspects of reseach. Early in 1947, the Colonial Insecticides Committee was created, with Sir Ian Heilbron as chairman, to initiate research, including experimental field work, to examine schemes for research and experiment submitted by Colonial Governments or other appropriate bodies, to advise on problems concerning the use of insecticides, and to make available the latest scientific information to those concerned with the use of insecticides in the Colonies. This Committee has already decided to concern itself primarily with the experimental application of the results of fundamental insecticide research, but will also encourage and reinforce research projects of Colonial Government Departments as well as co-ordinate agricultural, medical and veterinary interests in the use of insecticides. Economic research has now been entrusted to a Colonial Economic Research Committee, with Sir Arnold Plant as chairman, which, working in close association with the Colonial Social Science Research Council, will advise the Secretary of State on economic research and statistics.
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Research and Development in British Colonial Territories. Nature 161, 141–143 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161141a0
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