Principles and methods of colonial administration

THIS VOLUME PRESENTS the contributions to the Symposium on Principles and Methods of Colonial Administration held in April 1950 in the University of Bristol under the auspices of the Colston Research Society,

The Society was founded as the University College Colston Society-n 1899, and was named after the noted philanthropist and educationalist EDWARD COLSTON, who lived in Bristol from 1636 to 1721. The Society was a body of citizens who wished to assist the University College and to foster the idea of a university in Bristol. In annual diners were the occasions for making collections to aid the College and were graced by the presence of such distinguished guests as JAMES BRYCE, MICHAIL FOT and LORD HALDANE. At the dinner of 1908 the public announcement was made of the first of the many benefactions by the Wills family, which made posible the foundation of the University and the erecti of its main buildings.

The Society continued as a link between city and university and, having assumed its present title, devoted inelf to providing funds for carrying on research in the University. It made grans for special expenses and for the purchase of expensive apparatus, and it spread in ventions over the whole range of aci demic objects. For a generation in asistance was freely given and accepted with gratitude and was responsible for a constant flow of original work by members of the staff of the University. By tast in anal granes had passed the 1,000 level.

In recent years, however, it had become clear that the financing of research work would become moes and more & mer for government action and that the role of the Society in this respect would be relatively important. But it was essential that so valuable a link between cry and university should persist and continue to exercise in happy indiance. The Society mnt find some funcion not otherwise provided for the stilley of which should appeal equally to both groups of in numbers. The decision was takm to promote a series of annual symposis. The visitors to these would live together in the agreeable surroundings of a University Hall. They would meet the embers of the Society at a reception. Together they would be addensed by one of the distinguished gn Sock conferences are common today, but no other body is in a position to se responsibility for a series, the subjects for which may be chosen from the whole range of philosophy, arts and science, the particular subject for a given year selected as that most ripe for discusion and most likely to be fertile in result.

The Colton Research Society is therefore promoting, in collaboration with the University, a series of such symposia The contributions are being published in a series of volumes of Calon Papers and of these the present volume is the third.