First published in 1938, this overlooked classic is still one of the best general works on Africa. E.B. Worthington is among the most fascinating people who worked in the continent. A Cambridge-trained biologist, he quickly took to the young field of ecology, and devoted most of his professional career to its service. In his 90s he is still lively, even dynamic, challenging much younger folks to keep up with him. "Science in Africa" was commissioned along with Lord Hailey, "An African Survey" and S.H. Frankel, "Capital Investment in Africa." Worthington traveled through much of Africa in the 1930s, working closely with Hailey (who saved his life once in an auto-maintenance mishap). "Science in Africa" presents the author's own research (Cf. "Inland Waters of Africa") but draws even more on Worthington's prodigious surveys of nearly all Africanist literature at that time. It defines science very broadly, covering the earth, life and exact sciences but also encompassing public health, agronomy, economics, sociology, geography and the distinctively colonial sciences of anthropology and ecology. It goes beyond summarizing research to make recommendations for applying this accumulated knowledge to improve African life and economic production. The book is both invaluable and inimitable, except by EBW himself, who produced an updated "Science in the Development of Africa" some 20 years later. A liberal, enlightened colonial official and a pioneering tropical ecologist, with a deep love and understanding of the continent. For more information, see his own memoir on "The Ecological Century;" W.M. Adams, "Green Development;" and J.W. Cell, "Hailey: A Study in British Imperialism." T. Bass, "Camping With the Prince," is an enjoyable account of Worthington's 1980s successors at work in the field.