| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, photographs, botanical specimens and printed illustrations, relating to economic and botanical subjects in Lagos [Nigeria]. Includes information regarding the sending of botanical specimens, and their analysis and identification, and on the cultivation and trade of economic products including rubber, palm oil and indigo. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Jackson, Morris, and Hillier; with letters and memorandums from Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Stapf, Oliver, Jackson and Hemsley. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office and the Imperial Institute, and the Colonial Government of Lagos including Alfred Maloney, Governor. Folio numbers begin at f331.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Fish Poisons --
(Ff331-342) Papers regarding fish poisons, including specimens collected by T Dawodu sent to Kew for investigation, and on local methods of fishing.
-- Fodder Plants --
(F343).
-- Fruit trade --
(F344).
-- Grasses, pasture --
(Ff345-249).
-- Hevea brasiliensis --
(Ff350-351) Papers regarding Para rubber.
-- Indigo, Yoruba --
(Ff352-378) Papers regarding Yoruba indigo, its identification, and including (f353) leaf specimens, 1879.
Includes:
- HOOKER'S ICONES PLANTARUM (1888) LONCHOCARPUS CYANESCENS [with printed illustration].
-- Locusts --
(Ff379-381).
-- Ogea gum --
(Ff382-390) Papers regarding Ogea gum [identified as 'Daniellia'].
-- Padouk, African --
(F392).
-- Palm oil --
(Ff393-425) Papers regarding Lagos Palm Oil [Elais guineensis], fibre from the oil palm, and machine for cracking palm nuts. Includes manuscript report by Alvan Millson [Assistant Colonial Secretary], 'Notes on the Preparation of Lagos Palm Oil' (1891). Report includes photographs (of (f415) the 'boiling process' and (f416b) the 'mashing process'.
-- Piper guineense --
(F69) See MCR/10/7/14 [MR/489].
-- Produce --
(Ff426-441) Papers regarding report by Maloney on produce of Lagos, and papers on the white mulberry [Morus alba].
Includes:
- AFRICAN TRADE SECTION OF THE INCORPORATED CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF LIVERPOOL. WEST AFRICAN PRODUCE. (INDIGO, ETC.). LETTERS FROM HIS EXCELLENCY SIR ALFRED MOLONEY KCMG (GOVERNOR OF LAGOS) TO THE SECRETARY OF THE CHAMBER (Liverpool: Lee and Nightingale, 1890).
-- Raffia, West African --
(Ff442-493) Papers regarding manufacture of African Bass from the 'Raphia Vinifera' ['Iko'], and piassava. Includes correspondence with Ide and Christie [Ide and Christie, Fibre, Esparto and General Produce Brokers' c 1895, 1890].
Includes:
- RAFIA FROM WEST AFRICA (1895)
- MINUTE BY THE GOVERNOR, SIR ALFRED MOLONEY, ON THE BASS FIBRE OF THE BAMBOO PALM (RAPHIA VINIFERA) (1890).
-- Shea butter --
(Ff494-500) Papers regarding market for shea butter.
-- Yoruba land --
(Ff501-563) Papers regarding soil and cultivation of economic products, and earthworms.
Includes:
- Alvan Millson, 'Notes on the soil and cultivation of Yoruba land, with special remarks on the work of Earth worms in West Africa' (1890). |