Record

Ref NoMCR/10/6/17
Alt Ref NoMR/476
geographical classification 10.32
TitleGold Coast: Cultural Products I-W
DescriptionManuscript and typescript letters, printed documents, press cuttings and illustrations relating to economic and botanical subjects in the Gold Coast [Ghana], and relating to Lagos. Includes information regarding arrow poison, shea butter, kola, and other products, in addition to sending specimens to Kew for the Museum or for analysis, plant collectors, and on an apprenticeship scheme for 'native youths'. Includes letters to William and Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain and Morris; with letters and memorandums by Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Hillier, Oliver, Morris, Watson, Prain and Stapf. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office.

Volume is arranged in the following sections:

---- Special: continued ----

-- Irvingia Barteri --
(Ff319-320) Papers regarding Irvingia Barteri, also referred to as 'Dika', 'Djika fat', 'wild mango', and 'dika bread'.

-- Krause, Gottlob Adolf --
(Ff321-343) Papers regarding support for plant collecting, specimens for Kew, and reports on his character.

-- Locusts --
(Ff344-349).

-- Medicinal plants (''kola'' etc) --
(Ff350-382) Includes:

- Dr Clarke, MEDICAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1858 [with colour illustrations of the 'emboo shrub', 'cola tree', 'tanta anana plant', 'etua plant', 'empoompoo cruciferous plant' and 'yanchie']

- THE KOLA NUT (1895)

- Carus Sterne, DIE KOLANUSS (1898).

-- Miraculous fruits of West Africa --
(Ff383-398).

-- Otaheite Potato --
(Ff399).

-- Palm nuts --
(Ff400-401) Papers regarding machine for cracking palm nuts.

-- Pentaclethra macrophylla --
(Ff402-408) Papers regarding Pentaclethra macrophylla, also referred to as 'oil bean'.

-- Piper guineense --
(Ff409-411) Papers regarding Piper guineense, also referred to as 'ashantu pepper' or 'dojvie'.

-- Shea butter --
(Ff412-442) Papers regarding Butyrospermum parkii, 'gutta shea' and the 'karita' tree. Includes letters from [?William] Henderson regarding soap making, and references to 'karita' tree in Felix Dubois' TIMBUCTOO THE MYSTERIOUS (1897).

-- Strophanthus arrow-poison --
(Ff443-488) Papers, including illustrations, regarding 'Strophanthus' arrow poison used by the 'Fra-Fras', a tribe in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast [Ghana]. Includes reports on the effects of the poison and treatment, with reports by Chalmers, and medical reports by P J Garland.

Includes:

- Albert J Chalmers, A FURTHER REPORT OF EXPERIMENTS UPON THE FRA FRA ARROW POISON (1899).

-- Wheat --
(Ff489-492).

---- Natural Products ----
(Ff493-512) Papers regarding specimens of natural products collected by Mr G E Ferguson.
Includes:

- G E Ferguson, REPORT ON MISSION TO ATABUBU (1891) [with illustrations].

---- Training natives -----
(Ff512-573) Papers regarding proposed training of 'native youths' at Jamaica and Kew in apprenticeship scheme, with details regarding apprentices Brew and Martinson. Includes papers regarding objections to their studying at Kew.
Date17 Dec 1859-1 Aug 1906
FormatManuscript papers
Typescript
Published documents
Illustration
Press cuttings
Collection TitleMiscellaneous Reports
LevelFile
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
German
French
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