| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding training and working arrangements for curators in West Africa, with particular reference to Lagos [now Nigeria]. Includes papers regarding the training of two African curators at Jamaica and Kew, and discussion regarding the administration of botany and agriculture in Nigeria, and West Africa in general. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Nicholson, Prain and Hill; with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Watson and Prain. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, and Governor Alfred Maloney.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Training young gardeners --
(Ff1-97) Papers regarding arrangements for the training of Ferdinand G Leigh and T B Dawodu ('two young Africans'), at Jamaica and Kew. Includes papers regarding their progress, financial arrangements, and position on return to Lagos, with letters from W Fawcett, Leigh and Dawodu.
-- General Conditions of Service --
(Ff100-195) Papers regarding general conditions of service for curators sent to West Africa, including discussion of first and second class passages on West African steamers, and arrangements for study at Kew and elsewhere (including the Koloniaal Museum, Haarlem, and the Hamburgische Botanische Staatinstitute) during periods of leave. Includes specific reference to J Anderson and W Don, and the following printed documents:
- WEST AFRICA. VITAL STATISTICS OF NON-NATIVE OFFICIALS. RETURNS FOR 1912 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913)
- NORTHERN NIGERIA GAZETTE. PENSION SCHEME FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF EUROPEAN OFFICERS SERVING IN THE WEST AFRICAN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES (1913)
- WEST AFRICA. VITAL STATISTICS OF NON-NATIVE OFFICIALS. RETURNS FOR 1913 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1914)
- COLONIAL REGULATIONS. CHAPTER II.- OFFICERS (1913)
- WEST AFRICAN PENSIONS LAWS (1913)
- PENSION SCHEME FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF EUROPEAN OFFICERS SERVING IN THE WEST AFRICAN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES (1913)
- WEST AFRICAN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES. GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS (1913)
- WEST AFRICA. VITAL STATISTICS OF NON-NATIVE OFFICIALS. RETURNS FOR 1914 (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1915).
-- Previous conditions, West African service --
(Ff196-318) Papers regarding conditions of service for curators in West Africa, including first and second class passages, and visits to other botanic gardens during periods of leave. Includes papers regarding technical education and the development of the botanic station system, and the 1893 Conference of West African Governors. Includes memorandums regarding West African botanical establishments, the Gold Coast [Ghana] rubber industy, and cotton cultivation, with letters from the British Cotton Growing Association. Includes reference to the appointment of Gerald Dudgeon as Superintendent of Agriculture for the British West African Colonies and Protectorates, and (ff266-271) correspondence between Thiselton-Dyer and Alfred L Jones regarding cotton in West Africa and a proposed commercial museum in Liverpool.
Volume also includes (ff98-99) papers regarding death of Sir Alfred Jones. |