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Ref NoMCR/10/3/8
Alt Ref NoMR/446
geographical classification 10.2
TitleWest Tropical Africa: Oil Palm
DescriptionManuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, and printed documents regarding oil palm cultivation in West Tropical Africa. Includes letters to Prain, Hill and Chipp, and letters from Prain and Chipp. With letters from Wyndham R Dunstan of the Imperial Institute, and H J Read of the Colonial Office.

Volume is arranged in the following sections:

-- A.V.R.O.S. --
(Ff121-130) Papers regarding the Algemeene Vereeniging van Rubberplanters ter Oostkust van Sumatra [General Association of Rubber Planters on the East Coast of Sumatra]'s request for Kew's assistance with importing less common varieties of Elaeis Guineensis to the East Coast of Sumatra.

-- British West Africa: Report on Oil Palm Industry in, --
(Ff170-178) Printed document, titled:

- Frederick Montague Dyke, REPORT ON THE OIL PALM INDUSTRY IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA (Lagos: Government Printer, 1927).

-- Destruction of trees for obtaining Palm Wine --
(Ff131-165) Papers regarding the destruction of oil palm for obtaining palm wine and the necessity of prevention measures. Includes copy of letter from 'Kojo Nkum, Omanhene of Gomoah'.

-- Investigation of varieties of Oil Palm --
(Ff1-120) Papers regarding the necessity of an investigation into the varieties of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) in the Gold Coast, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Includes letters and reports by W S D Tudhope, Director of Agriculture, David Prain, H N Thompson [Chief Conservator of Forests], W H Johnson [Director of Agriculture, Nigeria], Hugh Clifford, and A H Kirby [Assistant Director of Agriculture, Nigeria].

-- Smart, Lewis (Attempt to grow Oil Palms in Nigeria from Sumatran Kernels) --
(Ff179-225) Correspondence between Lewis A Smart and Chipp about the possibility of growing oil palms in Nigeria from Sumatra oil palm kernels, and information on germination tests carried out at Kew and at St Lucia, Dominica, Trinidad and Nigeria.

-- Sumatran Palm Oil Industry, Report on --
(Ff166-169) Report by the United States Department of Agriculture on the Sumatra palm oil industry.
DateMay 1916-27 Mar 1928
FormatTypescript
Published documents
Manuscript papers
Collection TitleMiscellaneous Reports
LevelFile
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
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