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Item A geographer’s retrospect and note on the Mpwapwa land-use experiments and achievements(1942) Gillman, C.For years I have paid careful attention to the many progress reports on the Mpwapwa experiments by Messrs. H. E. Hornby and R. R. Stables which have formed so interesting a feature of the Tanganyika Territory Veterinary Department's Annual Reports; and I have visited Mpwapwa five time during the last nine years, the last occasion, in May, 1942, offering me an opportunity for gauging the achievements.Item Man, Land and Water in East Africa(1938) Gillman, C.The agricultural and pastoral occupation and exploitation of the land by man is a complicated function of a number of variables. These are based primarily on the structure and configuration of the earth's crust, comparatively stable if measured in terms of human life, and on the much less stable atmosphere, the daily, seasonal and longer period fluctuations of which we try to grasp by the study of climate and its variations in space and time. The interaction of these two prime movers, structure and climate, creates that fascinating pattern of soil, water, life and markets which likewise changes not only from place to place, usually gradually but in certain localities with almost awe – inspiring abruptness, but also, though perhaps less conspicuously, with time. For the earth's surface slowly readjusts itself to the great heavings of the crust and, probably largely caused by periodic or non-periodic alterations in the quantity and quality of forces that pour on to our little globe from the vast expanses of our own solar system and of the cosmos beyond, great and small climatic changes creep backward and forward over land and sea. It is therefore good if homo sapiens, who uses this pattern to fill his belly and improve his mind and soul, pauses every now and then to ponder on the constant flux which is the main attempt!, if not to solve her laws, at least to grasp their tremendous complexity and to adapt himself, as well as his indomitable will permits him to do, to the exigencies of his very unstable environment.Item Modern Methods of Water-Finding(1946) Gillman, C.Gillman has emphasized in numerous lectures and articles that the key factor in the expansion of agriculture in Tanganyika is the supply of domestic water, and J. Glover, in the previous number of this Journal, showed that by choosing t:he most suitable crops, even the semi-arid areas can be agriculturally productive. It is therefore of particular interest that we publish in this issue an article by Dr.E. Parsons on the principles of water-finding. In looking for underground water supplies the geologist has only a few pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, and he has to put these in their proper, places in order to find the general picture and to know the shape of the missing pieces. At first sight there appears to be a certain amount of guess-work in water-finding, but it is really a specialized form of acute reasoning which permits a geologist to work out the relations and characteristics of the underground rock formations and to judge the most likely places for well-boring.Item Population problems of Tanganyika Territory(1945) Gillman, C.In this article a set of East African problems will be discussed which are thought much more fundamental to the development of Tanganyika Territory than mere white settlement: problems of our native population, its present distribution, and its future better adjustment to the dictates of an environment that is, on the whole, difficult and in places almost grim. For do not let us forget that, as the great British geographer Sir Halford Mackinder told us forty years ago, "Man initiates but Nature in large measure controls".
