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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 1 - Europe
  - 11 - Portugal

Ref No	MCR/1/11/1
Alt Ref No	MR/61
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 1.59
Title	Portugal, Azores etc.: Miscellaneous
Description	Manuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, printed documents and press cuttings, regarding Portugal and the Azores. Includes letters to William Hooker and Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Prain, with papers by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Massee and Morris. Includes correspondence between Kew and the Foreign Office, with letters by Enfield, Murray, Lennox Wyke, Dilke, Lister and Macdonnel. Several letters are in French. Includes sections on the following subjects: -- Azores -- (Ff82-86) Papers regarding the transmission of specimens, and on the cultivation of sweet potato in the Azores to produce alcohol. -- Hunt, Thomas Carew, (Herbarium) -- (Ff113-132) Papers regarding donation of dried botanical specimens collected by Hunt [previously H M Consul in the Azores] to Kew through correspondence with Hunt's grandson Captain G A Carew Hunt, Joseph Barber and Co Ld and the Royal Botanic Society of London. -- Landscape Garden at Cintra -- (Ff87-88) -- Madeira sugar cane disease -- (Ff71-81) -- Mason, N H (visit to Cape Verd) -- (Ff1-2) Letter regarding arrangements for botanical and zoological research. -- Phylloxera -- (Ff3-34) Papers regarding spread of pest and on the signing of the Berne Convention 1881. -- St Michael Oranges -- (Ff89-90) Newspaper cutting regarding cultivation and trade of oranges in St Michael Island [São Miguel Island]. -- Vine disease -- (Ff91-112) Papers regarding 'maromba' vine disease in the Aveiro and Douro regions, including sending specimes to Kew, with resulting report. -- Welwitsch's Plants -- (Ff35-70) Papers regarding the botanical collection of Friedrich Welwitsch made from the Azores and Cape de Verd Islands, including legal proceedings regarding the ownership of his estate, and the sending of specimens to the Museu Nacional de Lisboa, and Kew. Includes letters from the Comte de Ficalho, Professor of Botany at the Museu Nacional de Lisboa.
Date	4 Jan 1858-18 Jan 1922
Subject	Botanical specimens
	Plant diseases
	Phylloxera
	Oranges
	Sugarcane
Format	Manuscript papers
	Typescript
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English
Language	French

Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/89	Hooker; Sir; Joseph Dalton (1817-1911); Knight; Botanist and second director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1817-1911
DS/UK/292	Hooker; Sir; William Jackson (1785-1865); Knight; botanist	1785-1865
DS/UK/90	Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William (1843-1928); Knight; British botanist and third director of Kew	1843-1928
DS/UK/187	Prain; Sir; David (1857-1944); Knight; British botanist and director of Kew	1857-1944
DS/UK/402	Massee; George Edward (1845-1917); English mycologist, plant pathologist and botanist	1845-1917
DS/UK/403	Hunt; Thomas Carew (1808-1886)	1808-1886
DS/UK/216	Morris; Sir; Daniel (1844-1933); Knight; British botanist and horticulturalist	1844-1933

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