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The Southern Margin of the Sahara: Comments on Some Recent Studies on the Question of Desiccation in West Africa

W 5 jrITH these words Professor E. P. Stebbing introduces important problem that he has recently discussed in several papers and a book.2 Professor Stebbing is head of Department of Forestry in University of Edinburgh and was formerly on Indian Forest Service. In 1934 he paid an extended visit to West Africa, in course of which he made a comparative study of forestry work in British and French areas. He was particularly interested in savana or bush forests of lower areas and soon formed opinion that increasing desiccation was causing a rapid southward movement of Saharan margin, a movement tha…