| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cutting relating to the Botanic Garden, Old Calabar, and other economic and botanical subjects relating to the 'Niger Protectorate afterwards styled Southern Nigeria' [Nigeria]. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer and Morris, and letters and memorandums from Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Watson and Hillier. Includes correspondence with the Foreign Office.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Botanic Garden, Old Calabar --
(Ff1-153) Papers regarding the establishment of the Botanic Gardens, Old Calabar, including reports on its progress, cultivation of economic products, and appointments of H W L Billington and John Henry Holland. Includes papers regarding sending botanical specimens, books, and study at Kew. Includes:
- REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, AUGUST 1891 TO AUGUST 1894 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1895)
- REPORT ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, 1894-1895 (London: Harrison and Sons, 1895)
- NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL GARDENS, OLD CALABAR, FOR THE YEAR 1895-1896 (Old Calabar: Government Press) [1896]
- NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL GARDENS, OLD CALABAR, FOR THE YEAR 1896-1897 (Old Calabar: Government Press) [1897]
- NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE. LIST OF PLANTS GROWN IN BOTANICAL GARDENS, OLD CALABAR. 1899. (Old Calabar: Government Press)
- 'Report on the Botanical Gardens Old Calabar, Niger Coast Protectorate. From April 1st .1898. to March 31st. 1899'
- 'Report on Botanical Gardens for the Year 1899 to 1900'
- 'Report on the Botanic Garden, Old Calabar, April 1st. 1900 to March 31st. 1901'
-- Assistant Curator. Course of Instruction at Kew --
(Ff154-212) Papers regarding recruitment of John Henry Holland, and Harold Buchan Lloyd. Includes information regarding provision for study at Kew for F S James and A Turner, Travelling District Commissioners, and Captain E P S Roupell. |