Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and newspaper cuttings, with printed map and images relating to the Gold Coast [Ghana] Botanical Station. Includes information regarding botanical specimens, and the cultivation and trade of cacao and coffee, participation in International Exhibitions, and on appointments for the Botanic Stations. Includes letters to William Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris, Jackson, Hemsley and Nicholson; with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Stapf, Watson, Hemsley and Massee. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office.
The volume is arranged in the following sections:
---- General ---- (Ff1-144) Papers regarding sending and requesting botanical specimens, identification of specimens, books and reports sent to the Botanic Station, Johnson's visit to Kwahu, 'native' cultivation of coffee, and proposals for the formation of Government Reserves, including copy of lease for land from the King of Kwahu. Includes:
- Louis Gentil, LE JARDIN BOTANIQUE D'ABURI (1901)
- GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST. REPORT UPON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1901 (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1902)
- GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST. REPORT UPON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1902 (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1903)
- GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST. REPORT UPON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1903 (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1904)
- W H Johnson, GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST. REPORT UPON THE BOTANICAL AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1904 (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1905)
- ANNUAL REPORT ON THE GARDEN AT GAMBAGA FOR THE YEAR 1904
- W H Johnson, GOVERNMENT OF THE GOLD COAST. REPORT UPON THE BOTANICAL AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1905 (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1906).
---- Special -----
-- Curators --
-- Anderson, James -- (Ff145-154) Papers regarding appointment.
-- Burbidge, Kenneth George -- (Ff155-163) Papers regarding appointment.
-- Don, William -- (Ff164-178) Papers regarding appointment.
-- Evans, Alfred -- (Ff179-200) Papers regarding appointment, including discussion of Walter Charles Fishlock [who did not pass medical examination] and resignation of T W Brown.
-- Johnson, William Henry -- (Ff201-214) Papers regarding expenses during study at Kew and Cambridge, and application for position of officer considering West Africa agricultural development, including cotton cultivation.
-- Plants for Jamaica -- (Ff215-219) Papers regarding plants sent from the Gold Coast to Jamaica, via Kew.
-- Plants from the Seychelles -- (Ff220-232) Papers regarding plants sent from the Seychelles to the Gold Coast, via Kew.
-- Exhibition; St Louis -- (Ff233-255) Papers regarding arrangements for the exhibit of agricultural and forest products by the Gold Coast, and medal awarded.
-- Exhibition; Crystal Palace -- (F256) Letter regarding medals awarded to the Gold Coast Government.
---- Products ----
-- Cocoa -- (Ff257-315) Papers regarding cultivation of cacao, samples exhibited in the Paris Exhibition [1900], trade, and samples sent for analysis. Includes information regarding coffee cultivation.
-- Coffee -- (Ff316-345) Papers regarding coffee cultivation, including 'Abeokuta coffee', trade, and proposed plan of a pulping house for Aburi Botanic Station. Includes papers regarding sale of a consignment of coffee and cocoa.
-- Hibiscus lunariifolius -- (Ff346-348).
-- Tobacco, etc. -- (Ff349-358) Papers regarding analysis of specimens of tobacco, croton oil [Croton tiglium] and rubber [Funtumia elastica].
-- Mango disease -- (Ff359-360) Papers regarding fungus affecting mangoes. |