| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings, with printed images and maps, relating to economic, botanical and forestry subjects in Southern Nigeria. Includes papers regarding the development of forestry, and the rubber and timber industries, and the sending of botanical specimens, including for analysis and identification. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Morris, and Hillier; with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Prain, Stapf, Hill, Watson, Hillier, Holland, Sprague, Rolfe, Massee and Hemsley. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office and the Imperial Institute.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Map --
(F1).
-- Model Farm --
(Ff2-27) Papers regarding experimental model farm, and the development of forestry, including application by Cyril Punch for Inspector of Forests position.
-- Agricultural Department, Pupils for --
(Ff28).
-- Economic Vegetable Products in general --
(Ff29-32) Papers regarding colour plates of economic plants of West Africa for use in identification by 'natives'.
---- Useful Plants of Nigeria -----
(Ff33-35) Papers regarding THE USEFUL PLANTS OF NIGERIA by J H Holland, and other guides.
---- Seeds and Plants, Consignments of miscellaneous, asked for from Kew: to be obtained elsewhere ----
(Ff36-65) Papers regarding requests for seeds and plants, and Kew's position regarding seed distribution.
Includes:
- 1910. ONITSHA INDUSTRIAL MISSION [with printed images].
-- Agbo --
(Ff66-77) Papers regarding identification of 'agbo' ('decoction of leaves and roots') and links to infant mortality.
-- Bananas --
(Ff78-85).
-- Camwood --
(Ff86-90) Papers regarding identification of trees yielding a red dye, including Baphia nitida and Pterocarpus.
-- Cassava --
(Ff91-92).
-- Cocoa --
(Ff93-100) Papers regarding sending of specimens, and on insect attacks on cocoa plantations.
-- Cocoa-nut --
(Ff101-114) Papers regarding import from Ceylon, and the following report:
- REPORT ON THE COCOANUT BLIGHT OF THE BADAGRY DISTRICT (1907).
-- Cotton --
(Ff115-139) Papers regarding cultivation, and fungus and leaf blister mite. Includes newspaper cuttings with printed photograph and map.
Includes:
- COPY OF REPORT ON COTTON CULTIVATION BY MR SMITH, BRITISH COTTON GROWING ASSOCIATION.
-- Drugs (native) --
(Ff140-142) Papers regarding 'tea bush leaf' and 'yellow fever leaf' used for malarial fever, identified as Ocimum viride and Euphorbia prostrata.
-- Eguse --
(Ff144-) Papers regarding 'Eguse' or 'Agusi'.
-- Garcinia kola --
(Ff146-147) Papers regarding 'Bitter Kola'.
-- Indigofera arrecta --
(F150).
-- Jute --
(Ff151-170).
-- Maize and Ground-nuts --
(Ff171-175) Papers regarding maize ('Zea Mays') and groundnuts ('Arachis hypogaea').
-- Mangoes and Oranges --
(Ff176-185) Includes papers regarding breadfruit.
-- Marodi --
(F186).
-- Nsa-Sana --
(Ff187-188) Papers regarding identification of Nsa-sana seeds.
-- Ogeo gum --
(Ff189-194) Papers regarding ogea resin or gum.
-- Orange --
(Ff195-196) Includes:
- REPORT ON INSECT ATTACK ON ORANGE TREES IN OLOKEMEJI GARDENS.
-- Palm oil --
(See separate volume).
-- Rubber --
---- Para ----
(Ff197-213) Papers regarding cultivation and diseases of rubber in general, and regarding para rubber.
Includes:
- REPORT ON RUBBER TAPPING EXPERIMENTS IN THE MAMU RESERVE (1909).
---- Ceara ----
(Ff214-215) Includes:
- SYSTEM OF TAPPING CEARA RUBBER TREES (1909).
---- Hevea Spruceana ----
(Ff218-240) Papers regarding Hevea spruceana and Hevea brasiliensis, including tracing historic information regarding specimens sent from Kew.
---- Landolphia etc. ----
(Ff241-245) Papers regarding rubber latex yielding vine 'otuokpo', identified as Landolphia owariensis; and regarding Manihot dichotoma, Manihot piauhyensis, and Manihot heptaphylla.
---- Mimusops ----
(Ff246-248).
---- Pests ----
(Ff249-251) Papers regarding specimens of para rubber tree infected with fungus disease.
-- Timber and Forestry --
(Ff252-404) Papers regarding commercial value of timber, and preservation and development of timber and rubber industries. Includes information regarding tests of Lagos timber, the work of Cyril Punch, and system of forest reserves including Ibadan Forest Reserve and printed map of potential Ilaro forest reserve. Includes papers regarding the 'iroko' or 'odum tree' [identified as Chlorophora excelsa], 'ekki' or 'eki', and African oak (Oldfieldia africana). With 'list of indigenoous plants of economic importance'.
Includes:
- EXTRACT FROM A REPORT ON THE FORESTRY AND AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, WESTERN PROVINCE, FOR THE HALF YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1909
- FORESTRY REPORT ON THE EASTERN PROVINCE FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1909
- REPORT BY THE CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS ON HIS TOUR THROUGH MEKO AND SHAKI DISTRICTS (1910)
- ANNUAL REPORT ON THE FORESTRYY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1911.
-- Tobacco --
(Ff405-409).
Volume also includes (f143) printed extract from the Kew Bulletin, THE EBEN TREE OF OLD CALABAR (PACHYLOBUS EDULIS), and (ff148-149) papers regarding 'ikpan' seeds. |