Colonial Office

I have attended numerous meetings, formal and informal, concerned with the differences between scientists and nonscientists. In these meetings, all too often, there is little interpenetration, reminiscent of trying to mix oil and water. Numerous factors are at play here but surely one of them is fear on the part of nonscientists, and another is arrogance on the part of scientists. Our intentions are good, but more often than not, we tend to speak to those who are not like us with condescension we seem to say we know the truth and you do not, but trust us, we will do what is right . This perceived attitude arouses suspicion and destroys credibility. All too often, what we say is not what our listeners hear. Those whom we try to persuade and to reassure may hear a voice similar to that of career officer from the British Colonial Office, 100 years ago, instructing the natives of Kenya or Ceylon. We only hurt ourselves when we dismiss—often with barely covered contempt—the irrational concerns of our critics. 

Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library Reference and Research Section, London. 

The Arab policy long pursued by the British Foreign Office, and less enthusiastically endorsed by the Colonial Office—a policy with which some people in our own State Department have associated themselves—has been shown, I think, to be based on an illusion. 

Nutrition Field Working Party, Gambia. 1950. Unpublished report to H. M. Colonial Office, London. 

Jackson, F. J. (1914). The governor to the secretary of state, 7 January 1914. No.43. In Further Correspondence [1914] relating to Concessions in Nyasaland, Uganda and the East African Protectorate, Colonial Office 1915, page 50. Kew, UK Public Record Office CO 879/115/1. 

A list of possible sites was obviously submitted to the Colonial Office, which came back with such comments as ... 

That last comment rather gives the impression that the Colonial Office was not particularly impressed by the whole idea, and the Commonwealth Relations Office was also rather cool to the idea ... 

U.S. Bureau of the Census. (1975). Historical Statistics of the United States Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office. 

Francis Newton Thorpe, The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States, Territories, and Colonies (Washington Government Printing Office, 1909), vol. VII, p. 3802 vol. V, p. 2753 vol. VI, p. 3211. 

The second office fulfilled by dunder—an office of some importance for the more rapid development of fermentation—is by ita richness in ferment The colonial distiller does not employ any yeast for inducing fermentation of - his wash he is consequently obliged to work upon more dilute solutions of molasses and shimmings—collectively called sweets—than are used by bis continental competitors. Any, even the slightest source of ferment, must therefore be welcome for bis purpose. Dunder is such a source. Ferments, it is well known, are destroyed by boiling-hoat of water, and recent dunder is in that respect perfectly inert but by exposure to air in shallow tanks, an oxidation and regeneration of the hilled ferment takes place, and it is to this circumstance that a part of tho favorable aotion of dunder must be ascribed. 

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