| Description | Manuscript and typescript papers, printed reports and press cuttings from TIMBER NEWS AND SAW MILL ENGINEER, THE TIMES, JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE, HOME GROWN TIMBER TRADE, WILTS AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE STANDARD, and the HERTFORDSHIRE AND STRATFORD OBSERVER. Includes manuscript annotation by Joseph Dalton Hooker and William Thiselton-Dyer. Includes printed images, and leaf specimens.
Volume is arranged as follows:
-- General --
(Ff1-93) Newspaper cuttings, and printed reports regarding British forestry and afforestation, titled:
- AFFORESTATION. REPORT OF A CONFERENCE PRESIDED OVER BY THE RIGHT HON THE EARL CARRINGTON, K G, PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, SUPPORTED BY THE RIGHT HON JOHN BURNS, PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD, ON THE SUBJECT OF AFFORESTATION. 25TH JUNE, 1907. (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1907).
- ROYAL COMMISSION ON COAST EROSION AND AFFORESTATION. VOLUME II. (PART I.) SECOND REPORT (ON AFFORESTATION) OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION APPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO AND TO REPORT ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS AFFECTING COAST EROSION, THE RECLAMATION OF TIDAL LANDS, AND AFFORESTATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. (London: Wyman [and] Sons for His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1909).
-- British Forestry Exhibition --
(Ff93-94) Letter from the Royal Agricultural Society of England regarding the British Forestry Exhibition.
-- Bath and West and Southern Counties Society --
(Ff95-120) Correspondence regarding forestry specimens for the Society's exhibitions.
-- London. Surveyors' Institution --
(Ff121-141) Letters to Kew from the Surveyors' Institution requesting help with the formation of a Forestry Collection, and assistance with the collection's rearrangement and classification. Includes letters from the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and from A B Rendle, British Museum (Natural History).
-- Diseases --
(Ff142-153) Letters and reports regarding the treatment of pests and diseases, including 'slime flux' and '[beech] coccus'. Includes letters from J Gilbert, and the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and letters regarding the use of the 'aspirator' [hoover], from International Aspirators Limited, for the 'treatment of insect pests'. Includes printed colour image of the aspirator.
-- Nomenclature --
(F154) Letter regarding the classification of fir trees and conifers as abies and picea.
-- Products; telegraph poles --
(Ff155-165) Letters regarding the General Post Office's recruitment of Assistant Pole Inspectors, and printed report titled 'Tender for the Supply of Telegraph Poles for His Britannic Majesty's Postmaster General'. Includes letter from Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
-- Tree transplanting --
(Ff166-175) Papers regarding 'transplanting machines', and report with printed images on 'Tree Moving'.
-- Woods for gunpowder charcoal. Rhamnus Frangula. Carpinus Betulus --
(Ff176-195) Correspondence from the Royal Gunpowder Factory and others regarding the woods used in gunpowder making, including dogwood, rhamnus frangula, carpinus betulus, and hornbeam. Includes manuscript diagram (f188) of medullary rays of rhamnus frangula and hornbeam.
-- Ash --
(F196) Newspaper cutting regarding the use of ash.
-- Eucalyptus? --
(Ff197-199) Letters regarding identification of Australian timber samples as eucalyptus wood.
-- Spindle-tree --
(F200) Annotated newspaper cutting regarding the spindle-tree.
-- Walnut --
(F201) Letter from Joseph Gardner and Sons regarding stocks of walnut wood used for army rifles.
-- Willows --
(Ff202-221) Correspondence regarding the India Office's request for Kew's assistance acquiring osiers and sallows to plant in the Nilgiri District, and notes regarding the cultivation of willows.
-- Lancashire [Willow] Farm --
(Ff222-223) Report on a 'Lancashire Willow Farm'.
-- Pharmacy --
(F224) Printed article titled 'Willows Used in Pharmacy', by E M Holmes.
-- Cricket bat willows --
(Ff225-232) Report titled 'The Cricket Bat Willow', by W J Bean, with printed images, and letters regarding Government development of Skye including planting of the Cricket Bat Willow.
-- Osiers --
(Ff233- 241) Papers regarding cultivation.
-- White Willow --
(Ff242-254) correspondence regarding salix alba and identification of white willow, and its uses for bat making. Includes letters from E R Pratt, Ryston Hall, Downham, Norfolk, with leaf samples in envelopes labelled 'the Right sort' and the 'wrong sort'.
-- Bark litigation --
(Ff255-256) Printed proceedings of the Court of Session, Edinburgh, regarding 'the Willow Bark Litigation'.
-- Poisoning by acorns --
(F257) Printed document by the Board of Agriculture titled 'Acorn Poisoning'.
-- Local --
-- Cambridge --
(Ff258-260) Report of the Forestry Committee.
(Ff261-265) letters from Augustine Henry regarding the appointment of W L Wood and Price.
-- Cirencester --
(Ff266- 270) Newspaper cutting regarding a speech by Dr Schlich on forestry, with letter from William Somerville.
-- Forest of Dean --
(Ff271-272) Papers regarding rules for the admission of students to the School of Forestry, Forest of Dean.
-- Gloucester --
(Ff273-278) Papers regarding the Royal Agricultural Society of England's Forestry Exhibition at Gloucester.
-- Hampstead --
(Ff279-281) Papers regarding the Hampstead Heath Protection Society, including report by W Goldring on 'some trees on the heath'.
-- Richmond, Surrey --
(Ff282-287) Letters regarding trees on Corporation Island and report by Thiselton-Dyer on their condition.
-- Richmond View --
(Ff288-293) Report on Richmond View by Thiselton-Dyer.
-- Rotherham --
(Ff294-295) Letter regarding disease in trees in Clifton Park.
-- Watford --
(Ff296-297) Newspaper cutting regarding 'Burnt Oak' and Notable Trees'.
-- Windsor --
(Ff298-310) Report on Windsor Park and Forest, by T W Webber, Forest Department, India, with printed diagrams. |