| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings and photograph, relating to economic, botanical and forestry subjects in Northern Nigeria. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Prain and Hill, with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Stapf, Wright, Watson, [Nicholas Edward] Brown, Sprague, Holland, Skan and Hillier. Includes correspondence with the Imperial Institute, and the Colonial Office. Folios 1-366 are followed by a section relating to Forestry Officers, with folio numbers 1-88.
Volume includes the following index:
-- Miscellaneous --
(Ff1-235) Papers regarding botanical specimens sent to Kew and requested from Kew, and the cultivation of economic products, including shea nuts, Liberian coffee seed, rubber, cotton, kola [or 'cola'], a ground bean [Kerstingiella geocarpa], Macadamia ternifolia, Pentaclethra macrophylla, among others. Also includes information regarding the fungus disease of yams, and establishment of Laboji Kola Plantations.
Includes:
- Wyndham Dunstan, NORTHERN NIGERIA. FIRST REPORT ON THE RESULTS OF THE MINERAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN NIGERIA, 1904-1905 (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906)
- NORTHERN NIGERIA. REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1912
- NORTHERN NIGERIA. REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1913
- NORTHERN PROVINCES. REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PROVINCES, FOR 1914
- REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PROVINCES, NIGERIA, FOR THE YEAR 1915
- ANNUAL REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, SOUTHERN PROVINCES, FOR THE YEAR 1915
- NIGERIA. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT NORTHERN PROVINCES FOR THE YEAR 1916
- NIGERIA. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PROVINCES, FOR THE YEAR 1917
- NIGERIA. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PROVINCES, FOR THE YEAR 1918
- NIGERIA. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FOREST ADMINISTRATION FOR THE YEAR 1918.
-- Botanical Collections --
---- B E B Shaw ----
(Ff236-239).
---- J M Dalziel ----
(Ff169-170, 205-206, 240-289) Papers regarding botanical specimens collected by Dalziel.
-- Cheyi Seed --
(Ff347-352) Papers regarding 'Cheyi' seed identified as Polygala butyracea, and also known as 'Maloukang' and 'Maluuku'.
-- Palm Disease --
(Ff321-346) Papers regarding disease of coconut and oil palms. [F321 and f322 are the same page].
-- Plants sent out from Kew --
(Ff353-366) Papers regarding Wardian case of ornamental plants sent from Kew for the Government House Grounds.
-- Forestry Officers: see File at end [after 366] --
---- Elliott, W A -----
(Ff1-51) Papers regarding appointment, reports on botanical and forestry subjects, aand death. Includes diagram.
---- McKee, A M ----
(Ff52-74) Papers regarding appointment, studies at Kew, and transfer to Police as Assistant Commissioner.
---- Shaw, B E B ----
(Ff75-88) Papers regarding studies at Kew.
Volume also includes (ff290-321) papers regarding the shea tree and shea butter, with report by Captain H O Mance with (f308) photograph, 2 Apr 1911, illustrating different stages of development of shea trees, Baro, Nigeria [with unidentified man]. |