Abstract
ALONG series of reports on almost every aspect of welfare in the British Colonial Empire, quite apart from the quiet but increasing work of the Colonial Research Committee, the Colonial Products Research Committee and other committees concerned with Colonial research in different fields, and more recently of the Colonial Primary Products Committee, have brought many scientific men into close touch with the particular economic, social, scientific and technical problems of these great areas. In the last ten years there have been important general surveys of nutrition, higher education, labour conditions, development and welfare ; and also studies in more limited fields such as cocoa control in West Africa, West African oils and oilseeds, the groundnuts scheme in East and Central Africa, the advancement of Africans in industry, and the relation of the game reserves to the slaughter of game, with all of which the man of science is more or less directly concerned. Quite recently, it has been announced that medical specialists from a panel of eighteen will each visit Africa twice in the next six years, and if the experiment, which is being financed by the Nuffield Foundation, is successful, it may be extended to other territories.
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Education and Colonial Development. Nature 161, 947–950 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161947a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161947a0