Research Services in East Africa

A PROVISION of the Colonial Development and Welfare Act of 1945 was to earmark up to a million pounds a year for ten years from the British Treasury for research in and on behalf of the Colonial Empire, and in consequence there has been much activity both at home and overseas in designing systems which will enable these funds to be spent in the best way. The purpose of this article is not to recapitulate the work at the London end, centred on the Colonial Office, because this is summarized in the published annual reports of the Colonial Research Committee (now Council) and other advisory committees and councils concerned, and has already been noticed from time to time in Nature . The object is to describe how the new system is working out in a Colonial region, with the advice and assistance of the London authorities.