British Royal Commission

The situation with regard to economic considerations has been so well stated in the First Report of the British Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (1) that this section contains an extensive quotation from that report. 

As some mining engineers and colliery officials were still unconvinced of the danger of coal dust, maintaining that previous experiments did not represent practical conditions, another (British) Royal Commission was appointed in 1891- After considerable investigation inquiry, thisCommission published in 1894 a report which contained conclusions similar to those of the 1886 report (Ref 12, pl09)... 

Denterara Rum.—We are fortunate in having the following description of rum manufacture which is quoted from a Communication of the British Guianas Planters Assn, to the British Royal Commission on Whiskey and The Potable Spirits, 1909. ... 

The work on development of British expls, safe against firedamp and/or dust (known now as "permitted ) began sometime in 1870 s and several Royal Commissions (the first in 1879) were appointed since then. Many formulations were suggested, but only the expls which underwent and passed the test in the galleries at Hebburn-on-Tyne (and later at Woolwich were placed on the "permitted list . In 1921, the "Safety in Research Board was created and is still in... 

Donald Cairns is a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2006 he was appointed to the British Pharmacopoeia Commission and serves on an Expert Advisory Group of the Commission on Human Medicines. 

Professor O Grady is Examiner to the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and a member ofthe British Pharmacopoeia Commission. 

British.—Shidrowitz (Royal Commission of Whiskey and other Potable Spirits. Minutes of Evidence, Vol. 1, pages 409, 410, 1909) reports analyses of Scotch and Irish pot and patent still whiskeys and of American Bourbons and Ryes as follows ... 

Report of the British Columbia Royal Commission, Second Narrows Bridge Enquiry, Vol. I, 1958, British Columbia, Canada. 

Letter to First Lord of the Treasury from the President of the Sanitary Association and Vice-President of the Fisheries Protection Association relating to the pollution of streams, in PP. 1864, L. 327. The Royal Commission to Inquire into the Best Means of Preventing Pollution of Rivers published eight separate reports in the British Parliamentary Papers between 1866 and 1874. 

In 1985, the Austrahan government set up a Royal Commission on the British nuclear tests of the 1950s. Austrahan opinion had moved from full support in the 1950s to outright opposition in the 1980s, and Penney, as a witness, faced considerable hostile questioning. 

As soon as the Australian meeting of the British Association was over, Moseley hastened home to offer his services to the government. He could work at home, he was told, in one of the war research laboratories, but he refused. He wanted active service at the front. So during the madness of those early war days he was granted a commission in the Royal Engineers. 

During the course of the war, the role of experimental science moved from the periphery to the centre of the conflict. Although traditionally sceptical towards technical innovation and the involvement of civihans in war, the military establishment felt compelled to exploit civihan scientists for the war effort. Whereas the Royal Society had made Htde progress in persuading the War Office to use civilian expertise, Haldane and Baker s commission set a precedent in establishir the role of British scientists in chemical warfare research. Their war-related work ushered in a period of scientific innovation and reform which saw the employment of chemists and physiologists to conduct research into offensive and defensive aspects of chemical warfare. British scientists, many of them Fellows of the Royal Society (FRS), felt duty-bound and honoured to place their expertise at the service of the realm, and had little, if any, moral objections in developing new weapons of mass destruction. 

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