BOOK REVIEWS123for easy administration, does provide the research worker with a highly re-fined scoring procedure which the author might well be able to utilize infurther research in this field.University of Natal, PietermaritzburgJ. M. Z. MICHAURhodesia's Pioneer Women (1859-1896) Compiled by /Ł M. Lloyd, revisedand enlarged by C. Parry. Bulawayo, The Rhodesia Pioneers' and EarlySettlers' Society, 1974, 105pp., no price indicated.Profiles of Rhodesia's Women Salisbury, National Federation of Business andProfessional Women of Rhodesia," 1976, 176 pp., illustrated, Rh$5,5O.The first of these books is a new edition, enlarged by some 360 entries, of theoriginal edition of 1960. In all there are some 1 100 entries for women whoentered Southern Rhodesia, mainly, of course, in the years 1892-6. The sec-ond book, published to mark International Women's Year 1975, is also anew edition, in effect, of the National Council of Women's publication in1953, Women of Central Africa, which celebrated those who had made theirmark in the first half of the century. The book contains entries of a hundredor so women lately prominent in Rhodesian life and also describes the mainwomen's organisations. Neither book aims at being more than a biographicalrecord, but the diversity of activities described in passing does throw somelight on a situation in which 36 per cent of married European womenaie now actively employed economically.R.S.R.Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Rhodesia, 1924-1950By H. Weinmann. Salisbury. University of Rhodesia. Series in ScienceOccasional Paper No. 2, 1975, 240pp., 29 Tables, Rh$5,00.This is the second volume by Dr Weinmann on this subject; the first coveredthe period 1890-1923 and was published in 1972 as a University of RhodesiaOccasional Paper.Together these two volumes provide a detailed factual and chronologicalrecord of technical development in Rhodesia's agriculture. For this reasonthey can be described as histories but they will be more valuable as a sourceof information for the practising agricultural scientist or student; the his-torian will not find enough speculation or opinion on the causes, effects orimportance of the various technical achievements described, to permit extra-polation in social or political terms and will therefore not be as interested.Dr Weinmann's description of Rhodesia's agricultural development from1890-1923 left me with three main impressions. First, the surprising fact thatin spite of the great disparity in age between European and Rhodesian agri-culture, research in agriculture was started in Rhodesia less than 60 yearsafter its beginnings in Europe. What appears to be the main reason for theearly initiation of agricultural research locally, makes the second impression,namely that as early as the turn of the century it was realised that mineralwealth would not, after all, be the draw card and that settlers would have tobe attracted by the country's agricultural potential. The third impression is