| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports [with diagrams], press cutting, and printed document, regarding botanical and mycological collections sent to Kew from Southern Nigeria, Lagos, and Nigeria, frequently from the Agricultural and Forestry Departments. Volume includes information regarding specimens sent for analysis and identification, and for the Kew Herbarium, in addition to the labelling and numbering of collections, packaging and transportation, and requests for books. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Prain and Stapf, with letters and memorandums from Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Stapf, Hill, Sprague and Wright. Includes correspondence with the Imperial Institute, and Administration of Southern Nigeria.
Volume includes papers regarding collections made by L A King Church, Christ, Dennett, Dodd, Evans, Farquhar, C O Farquharson, E W Foster, Alexander Hislop, Johnson, John C Leslie, T B Maitland, C Punch, Percy Talbot, Northcote Thomas, H N Thompson, A Harold Unwin and J L Williams, among others. Some of these collectors appear in an index at the beginning of the volume, although papers regarding each collector are often dispersed throughout the volume, in addition to the sections specified below.
Volume includes the following [incomplete] index:
-- Dawodu, T B --
(Ff1-16) Comprises:
- A PROVISIONAL LIST OF THE INDIGENOUS AND NATURALISED FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE TOWN AND ISLAND OF LAGOS AND EBUTE METTA DISTRICT (1902).
-- Dunstan, Rowland Wyndham --
(F210).
-- Foster, E W --
(Ff77-86, 211).
-- Gosling, Mrs G --
(Ff24-26).
-- Jeffreys, M D W --
(Ff213-215).
-- Johnson, Wm H --
(Ff122-125, 216-226).
-- Leslie, John C --
(Ff87-90).
-- Sankey, H J --
(Ff233-234).
-- Talbot, Percy Amaury --
(Ff23, 27-46) Papers regarding botanical specimens and drawings. Includes letters from Dorothy Talbot, and pencil diagrams.
-- Unwin, A Harold --
(Ff55-76, 227, 230-232).
Volume also includes papers (ff126-140) regarding collections of Northcote W Thomas and preparation of his Ibo Dictionary, and letters (ff159-165) from Walter Swingle, United States Department of Agriculture, in addition to papers regarding other collectors dispersed throughout the volume. |