FROM 7th to 20th July, representatives of the Geological Surveys of Southern Equatorial Africa met at Kigoma to discuss the compilation of a geological map of this part of the Continent. The Conference constituted the first meeting of the Sub-Commission of African Geological Surveys formed at the XVth International Geological Congress at Pretoria in 1929, and the countries represented at Kigoma were as follows: French Equatorial Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, Uganda, Tanganyika Territory, and Nyasaland.