Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, and illustration, regarding economic products relating to Sierra Leone, including sending specimens to Kew for identification or valuation, requesting specimens for experimentation, and on cultivation and agricultural development, particularly rubber. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson, Prain and Hill; and letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Stapf, Jackson, Oliver, Prain and Hill. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office and the Imperial Institute.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Annatto, Pentaclethra -- (Ff1-5) Papers regarding dyes and oils of annatto [Bixa orellana] and Pentaclethra macrophylla.
-- Bananas -- (Ff6-7).
-- Cacao -- (Ff8-22) Papers regarding cacao plants sent from Trinidad to Sierra Leone.
-- Calabar Bean (see Rubber p. 210-) --
-- Coca -- (Ff23-27) Papers regarding leaves of the Erythroxylum coca sent to Kew for examination.
-- Cocoa-nut -- (Ff28-29) Papers regarding planting the 'large cocoanut of Ceylon' in the West Coast of Africa.
-- Coffee -- (Ff30-45) Papers regarding Coffea stenophylla, with extract from CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE (1896) [with colour illustration]. Also includes papers regarding coffee berries from Liberia used to make 'Elephant Berry coffee'.
-- Cola -- (Ff46-52).
-- Cotton -- (Ff53-68) Papers regarding samples sent to Kew, and cultivation of Egyptian cotton.
-- Fai Bean (see also Annatto) -- (Ff69-87).
-- Fibres -- (Ff88-114) Papers regarding fibres including the 'bolobolo' fibre, 'betivo', Agave rigida, wild sarsaparilla, ramie or rhea [Boehmeria nivea and Boehmeria nivea var tenacissima], rafia, and others.
-- Frankincense (see also Lane Poole's Herbarium specimens correspondence of 18 Jan 1911-) -- (Ff115-117) Extract from HOOKER'S ICONES PLANTARUM [with printed illustration] regarding Daniella Thurifera.
-- Ground Nut -- (Ff118-124) Papers regarding cultivation of groundnut [Arachis hypogoea].
-- Kinkélibah -- (F125) Printed extract regarding Kinkélibah, as a remedy for fever.
-- Millions Fish -- (Ff126-144) Papers regarding millionfish [guppy, Poecilia reticulata] sent by Kew.
-- Nutmegs -- (Ff145-148) Papers regarding nutmeg.
-- Oro plant -- (Ff149-161) Papers regarding the 'oro' plant [Euphorbia]. Includes:
- W T Thiselton Dyer, NOTE ON THE "ORO" PLANT (1886).
-- Pentaclethra (see Annatto and Fai Bean) --
-- Pentadesma -- (Ff162-172) Papers regarding the kamoot, or 'butter and tallow' tree. Includes extracts from HOOKER'S ICONES PLANTARUM (1896) [with printed illustration] of Pentadesma butyracea.
-- Pests -- (Ff173-176) Comprises:
- AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE COLONY OF PESTS AND INSECTS DESTRUCTIVE TO TREES, PLANTS AND CROPS (1911)
- AN ORDINANCE TO PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION INTO THE COLONY OF PESTS AND INSECTS DESTRUCTIVE TO TREES, PLANTS AND CROPS (1912).
-- Polygala seed -- (Ff177-) Papers regarding the Polygala butyracea and Polygala oleifera, including:
- LES VÉGÉTAUX UTILES DE L'AFRIQUE TROPICALE. LE MALOUKANG OU ANKALAKI .
-- Rain-tree -- (Ff205-207) Papers regarding the Raintree of Peru [Pithecolobium saman].
-- Rubber -- (Ff208-318) Papers regarding the cultivation of rubber, methods of production, development of the rubber industry, and the preservation of rubber forests. Includes information regarding the Castilloa elastica, Lantunia Elastica, Kickxia Africana, Manihot glaziovii [Ceara rubber], Hevea braziliensis [Para rubber], Landolphia owariensis, and Ficus vogelii. Includes information regarding samples of the calabar bean, and a manuscript report 'Instruction for the planting and growing of Landolphia owariensis "Sierra Leone Rubber Tree" issued to native chiefs', and (f272) illustration of leaf and flower buds of the 'True Lagos Rubber Plant, now called Lantunia Elastica formerly confused with Kickxia Africana'.
Includes:
- AGRICULTURE. THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. INFORMATION FOR THE MERCANTILE COMMUNITY (1896)
- KEWATTIA. KICKXIA AFRICANA, BENTH.
- REPORTS ON RUBBER IN THE GOLD COAST AND SIERRA LEONE (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1904) [with printed photographs].
-- Salikounda -- (Ff319-321) Papers regarding Copaifera salikounda.
-- Tapioca -- (Ff322-327).
-- Tobacco -- (Ff328-330). |