[Warren Fisher], Report of a Committee on the System of Appointment in the Colonial Office and the Colonial Services (1930)

I. e Colonial Empire. e territories which fall within the sphere of the Colonial O ce cover an area of about two million square miles – nearly twice the size of British India – and contain a population of nearly y millions – nearly twice the total population of the oversea Dominions. Except for some 160,000 square miles with four millions of people, these territories lie wholly within the tropics.