52 SCIENCE IN AFRICA 



Belgian 



The Belgian administration has carried out a large-scale pro- 

 gramme of map production, the results of which are of high value. 

 A 1 :5, 000,000 map of the whole Congo, for instance, is published 

 in five editions, political, communications, orographical, hydro- 

 graphical, and geological. The whole Congo is covered also on the 

 scale of 1 : 1,000,000, and a new series on 1 1500,000 compiled from 

 all sources is in production. There is a rough topographic series 

 on 1:100,000 of the lower Congo and a provisional 1:100,000 of 

 Ruanda- Urundi. All of these are published by the Ministry of 

 Colonies, Brussels. 



The C omit e Special du Katangais publishing an excellent contoured 

 1:200,000 series of their territory. The topographical, geological, 

 soil, and vegetation work is published in maps and separate leaf- 

 lets as well as in the magnificent Atlas du Katanga (1929 onwards). 



Italian 



Tripoli and vicinity is mapped on 1:200,000, 1:100,000, and 

 1:25,000; Benghazi and the adjoining country on 1:200,000, 

 1:50,000, and 1:25,000. For the whole of Libya there are com- 

 piled series on 1:800,000 and 1:400,000, neither of which is com- 

 plete. The Instituto Geografico Militare, the Ministero delle 

 Colonic and the local services of Tripolitania and Cirenaica have 

 all participated in the mapping of Libya. 



Eritrea is mapped by the Instituto Geografico Militare and the 

 Ministero delle Colonic. For the whole country there is a compiled 

 1:400,000, and contoured 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 series exist for 

 small areas. 



For Italian Somaliland the Ministero delle Colonic is publishing a 

 compiled series on 1:400,000; about one-third of the colony is 

 completed. A small area in the Lower Juba Coastal region is 

 covered by topographic maps on 1:200,000, 1:100,000, and 

 1:50,000. Various small-scale maps are prepared by the local 

 geographic office at Mogadishu. 



Abyssinia 



There are no maps published in Abyssinia. General maps have 

 been published by the British War Office and the Italian Colonial 



