| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, and printed diagrams and illustrations regarding economic, botanical and forestry subjects relating to the 'Niger Protectorate afterwards styled Southern Nigeria' [Nigeria]. Includes information regarding the Botanic Garden, Old Calabar, and botanical and forestry administration. Includes papers regarding the sending of botanical specimens, including for analysis and for the Kew Museum, and regarding the cultivation and trade of economic products, including rubber. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris and Watson, with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris, Watson, [Charles Henry] Wright, Stapf, Jackson and Hillier. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office and Imperial Institute, and with Sir Ralph Moor. Folio numbers begin at f213.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Botany and Forestry Recommendations --
(Ff213-305) Papers regarding proposals to amalgamate the botany and forestry departments and to appoint a 'trained native of India', and regarding forestry legislation.
-- Reports etc. of Southern Nigeria --
(Ff306-341) Includes:
- SOUTHERN NIGERIA. REPORT FOR 1899-1900 (London: Darling and Son, 1901)
- J H Holland, 'Report on Travelling in Cross River Division' (1900).
-- Wardian cases for Singapore --
(Ff342-355) Papers regarding Wardian cases sent from Singapore to Nigeria, via Kew.
-- Chrysophyllum africanum --
(Ff356-360) Papers regarding leaves of tree yielding gutta percha.
-- "Balata", Ficus platyphylla --
(Ff361-370).
-- Copaiba --
(Ff371-374).
-- Mahogany nut --
(Ff442-451).
-- Rubber (generally) --
(Ff375-396) Includes:
- J H Holland, RUBBER CULTIVATION IN WEST AFRICA (7 Mar 1901) [with printed diagrams and illustrations].
---- Rubber Milk ----
(Ff397-406).
---- Castilloa [elastica] ----
(Ff407-409).
---- Parà ----
(Ff410-441) Papers regarding Para rubber (Hevea Braziliensis) and question of introducing seeds from South America and other areas, and the difficulty of transportation.
-- Shea Butter --
(Ff452-454) Papers regarding trade.
-- Timber --
(Ff455-458).
-- Sundries, of minor importance --
(Ff459-474) Papers regarding sending and requesting of botanical specimens, including arrowroot, 'Dika' fruit, cotton, tobacco, oil beans, Musa and 'Dika or Gaboon chocolate'. |