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Ref NoMCR/10/6/16
Alt Ref NoMR/475
geographical classification 10.32
TitleGold Coast: Cultural Products B-I
DescriptionManuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, illustrations and a plant specimen, relating to economic and botanical subjects in the Gold Coast [Ghana]. Volume includes information about seeds and specimens sent to Kew for the Museum or for analysis, and material regarding the cultivation and of economic products including cotton, cola [or kola] and cocoa among others, the distribution of seeds, and on plant pests and parasites. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris, Jackson and Nicholson; and letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Watson, Morris, Jackson and Oliver. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office.

Volume is arranged in the following sections:

---- General ----

-- Economic Agriculture, 1889 --
(Ff1-65) Includes:

- GOLD COAST. ECONOMIC AGRICULTURE ON THE GOLD COAST, 1889 (1890)

- GOLD COAST. FURTHER REPORTS RELATIVE TO ECONOMIC AGRICULTURE ON THE GOLD COAST (1891).

-- Commission on same --
(Ff66-70).

-- Sundries --
(Ff71-72) Comprises:

- GOLD COAST. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1896 (1897).

---- Special ----

-- Borers; see Insect Pests --
(Ff267-318).

-- Coca --
(Ff73-75) Papers regarding analysis of specimens.

-- Cocoa nuts; (cf Sundries) --
(Ff76-79) Papers regarding cultivation and trade.

-- Cocoa --
(Ff80-87) Includes:

- W H Johnson, REPORT ON COCOA AND COLA INDUSTRIES IN THE GOLD COAST (1906).

-- Cola (cf. med. pl. cocoanuts)
(Ff80- 148) Includes:

- KOLA-NUT TREE (Cola Acuminata) [with printed images of Sterculia Acuminata].

-- Copal --
(Ff149-150).

-- Cotton --
(Ff151-231) Papers regarding cotton and Raphia seeds, with reports by W H Johnson.
Includes:

- E Fisher, HINTS ON THE CULTIVATION AND HARVESTING OF COTTON (Liverpool: 1904).

-- Cyperus esculentus, "Tiger nuts" --
(Ff232-239).

-- Dye plant --
(Ff240-246) Includes (f241) plant specimen.

-- Encephalartos Barteri --
(Ff247-249) 'Papers regarding Encephalartos Barteri, the 'Ghost palm'.

-- Erythrophloeum --
(Ff250-257) Includes papers regarding use of Erythrophloeum guineense [Tallin baro tree] as test for witchcraft.

-- Fibres --
(Ff258-266).

-- Insect pests (Borers etc) --
(Ff267-318) Includes papers regarding insects relating to coffee, with report by Walter F H Blandford containing hand drawn illustrations.
Date8 Jan 1876-1906
FormatManuscript papers
Typescript
Published documents
Press cuttings
Illustration
Specimen
Collection TitleMiscellaneous Reports
LevelFile
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
French
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