246 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL AFRICA. 
Report of Committee appointed to inquire into the present state of knowledge 
of the Human Geography of Tropical Africa and to make recommenda- 
tions for furtherance and development (Prof. P. M. Roxsy, Chairman ; 
Prof. A. G. Ocitvis, O.B.E., Secretary; Mr. S. J. K. Baxer, 
Prof. C. B. Fawcett, Prof. H. J. FLeureE, Dr. A. GeppEs, Mr. E. B. 
Happon, Mr. R. H. Kinvic, Mr. J. McFariane, Col. M. N. 
MacLeop, D.S.O., M.C., Prof. J. L. Myres, F.B.A., Dr. R. A. 
PeLyaM, Mr. R. U. Sayce, Rev. E. W. Smitn). 
In the Report for 1932-33, which summarised the past activities of the 
Committee, it was pointed out that the Government of Northern Rhodesia 
had responded to the request for answers to the questionnaire in respect of 
most of the Districts of the Protectorate. Two further reports have been 
received, making a total of thirty, while only two are now outstanding. 
During the past year it has been decided that the Committee should 
undertake the compilation of a small volume based upon these reports and 
comprising an account of the Social Geography of Northern Rhodesia. 
Considerable progress has been made towards this end by the Secretary, 
and a forecast of part of the content of the work is indicated in the Presidential 
Address to Section E (Geography) for the present year. At the same time 
the Committee felt that the original reports themselves constitute valuable 
documents which should be preserved and be made available to facilitate 
other research work in the fields of geography and anthropology. ‘At its 
request, a special grant of £5 was made by the Council to enable the 
Committee to copy the originals by the photostat process on a reduced 
scale. But unfortunately this grant has been found to cover only half of 
the cost of copying. The Committee is therefore including a like sum in 
its present application, to complete the work. 
Contact has now been established with other bodies interested in its 
work and mentioned in its previous Report, and there is every prospect of 
close co-operation. 
The visit of Mr. S. J. K. Baker to East Africa has already borne some 
fruit by his publication of a paper interpreting the population map of 
Uganda (in the Uganda Journal, 1934) ; while Mr. Baker has also prepared 
a general population map of East Africa based upon all available material. 
The Committee has decided to approach the various Governments with a 
view to obtaining more detailed material for the compilation of population 
density maps of all the British territories. 
In the past year the paper by Messrs. E. A. Leakey and N. V. Rounce 
on the Kasulu District of Tanganyika has been published in Geography 
(1933). 
The Committee has spent £3 6s. 2d. of its grant of £5, while a profit 
from sales of the pamphlet amounting to £1 5s. 3d. has been handed to the 
General Treasurer. 
The Committee asks for reappointment with the addition of Mr. W. 
Fitzgerald, and applies for a grant of £25 for the following purposes : (a) to 
complete the photostat copying of the Northern Rhodesia reports ; (6) to 
cover expenses to be incurred in preparation of the work on the Social 
Geography of Northern Rhodesia with a view to publication ; (c) for the 
purchase and distribution of separate copies of articles communicated to 
societies for publication ; and (d) for secretarial expenses during 1934-35. 
