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Ref NoMCR/10/5/7
Alt Ref NoMR/459
geographical classification 10.28
TitleSierra Leone: Forestry and General
DescriptionManuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and a photograph, relating to forestry, botanical, geological and economic subjects regarding Sierra Leone. The volume includes information regarding training provided at Kew, and botanical specimens sent to Kew for identification, including for the Kew Museum and Herbarium. Includes letters to William Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris, Jackson, and Hemsley, with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hemsley, Jackson, and Morris. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, Admiralty, and Imperial Institute, with letters from J P Quinton.

Volume is arranged in the following sections:

-- Agriculture (in general) --
(Ff1-3) Printed reports.

-- Botanic Station: its progress: importance of Reports --
(Ff4-33) Includes papers regarding employment of Quinton as Curator of Botanic Station, Freetown, and sending specimens from Grenada.

-- Botany and Geology. Report on --
(Ff34-72) Comprises:

- G F Scott Elliot, Catharine A Raisin, SIERRA LEONE. REPORTS ON BOTANY AND GEOLOGY (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1893).

-- Commerce, Population, etc. --
(Ff73-80) Comprises:

- SIERRA LEONE - ITS COMMERCE, POPULATION ETC (1894)

- DEVELOPMENT OF SIERRA LEONE (1896).

-- Forestry --

---- Reports ----
(Ff81-148) Comprises:

- SIERRA LEONE. REPORT ON THE FORESTS AND FORESTRY PROBLEMS IN SIERRA LEONE. (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1909) [with printed photographs]

- SIERRA LEONE. REPORT ON FORESTS OF SIERRA LEONE (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1911).

---- Correspondence on Reports ----
(Ff149-158).

---- Forestry Ordinance ----
(Ff159-174) Comprises:

- AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF FOREST RESERVES IN THE COLONY AND PROTECTORATE (1912)

- AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE IMPORTATION OF TRADE SPIRITS (1912).

---- Kayea ----
(Ff177-178) Papers regarding Khaya senegalensis gum.

---- Oldfieldia ----
(Ff179-181) Papers regarding the African oak or teak [Oldfieldia africana].

-- Fruit culture --
(Ff182-) Includes:

- SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EDIBLE FRUITS OF SIERRA LEONE. DRAWN UP BY JOSEPH SABINE...FROM THE JOURNAL AND PERSONAL COMMUNICATION OF MR GEORGE DON. READ MARCH 18TH, 1823.

-- Herbarium etc. Specimens for --
(Ff199-264) Papers regarding specimens sent to Kew for identification, including local medicinal plants sent by George Garratt, collections by Mr Aldridge, botanical specimens from Lagos and Sierra Leone, the 'Mendis enyayvi', frankincense tree [Daniela thurifera] and others.

-- Instruction of Officers at Kew --
(Ff265-) Papers regarding instruction at Kew for W Haydon, and Major John Thomas Cramer, and death of Cramer.

Volume also includes (ff175-176) photograph [1893] and papers regarding the 'Ka Pende' tree, locally called 'Mahogany', sent by T J Alldridge.
Date18 Mar 1823-2 Aug 1912
FormatManuscript papers
Typescript
Published documents
Photographs
Collection TitleMiscellaneous Reports
LevelFile
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
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