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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 1 - Europe
  - 1 - Great Britain/ British Isles

Ref No	MCR/1/1/31
Alt Ref No	MR/31
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 1.2
Title	Colonial Fruit
Description	Manuscript letters and reports, with printed reports and press cuttings, regarding the current and potential fruit cultivation and trade in each colony. Reports contain frequent manuscript annotation. The reports are in response to se questions circulated in the Secretary of State's Circular Despatch of 30 Nov 1887 [on behalf of Thiselton-Dyer]. Volume is arranged by colony as follows [index is located in the first volume, MCR/1/1/30]: -- Bahama [Bahamas] -- (Ff289-296). -- Barbados -- (Ff297-300). -- St Lucia -- (Ff301-302) Printed report by R P Cropper, Secretary of the Agricultural Society. -- St Vincent -- (Ff303-308). -- Grenada -- (Ff309-316). -- Tobago -- (Ff317-319). -- Trinidad -- (Ff320-322). -- British Guiana -- (Ff323-377) Papers including report by G S Jenman, Government Botanist in British Guiana, and letter from Edward Payne, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, British Guiana Court, regarding packing fruit. Printed documents include: - 'Regarding an Export Fruit Trade' - 'Tropical Fruits for the English Market', PALL MALL GAZETTE , 27 May 1886 - G S Jenman, REPORT ON THE FRUIT RESOURCES OF BRITISH GUIANA (Georgetown, Demerara: C K Jardine, 1888) - PRELIMINARY REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED TO CONSIDER IN WHAT WAY THE BANANA AND GENERAL FRUIT INDUSTRY CAN BEST BE ENCOURAGED. 1890. (Georgetown, Demerara: C K Jardine, 1889). -- Dominica -- (Ff378-428) Papers including report by Henry Alfred Alford Nicholls. -- Bermuda -- (Ff429-439) Papers including report on the fruits of St Helena. -- Sierra Leone -- (Ff440-462) Papers including report on 'West African settlement', and newspaper cuttings from THE SIERRA LEONE FARM AND TRADE REPORT titled 'Colonial Fruits', and 'Kew Gardens Circular on Colonial Fruits'. -- Gold Coast -- (Ff463-468). -- Lagos -- (Ff469-472). -- Natal -- (Ff473-482) Papers including printed report by J Medley Wood, and newspaper cuttings from NATAL MERCURY. -- Malta -- (Ff483-515). -- Cyprus -- (Ff516-539). -- Ceylon -- (Ff540-546). -- Straits Settlements -- (Ff547-556). -- Mysore -- (Ff557-567) [Also labelled 'Madras'].
Date	27 May 1886 -10 May 1890
Subject	Colonies--Administration
	Fruit trade
	Fruit
Format	Manuscript papers
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English

Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/217	Meade; Robert Henry (1835-1898); Sir; civil servant	1835-1898
DS/UK/90	Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William (1843-1928); Knight; British botanist and third director of Kew	1843-1928
DS/UK/228	Jenman; George Samuel (1845-1902); botanist	1845-1902
DS/UK/230	Nicholls; Henry Alfred Alford (1851-1926); Sir; medical officer	1851-1926
DS/UK/229	Medley Wood; John (1827-1915); botanist	1827-1915

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