| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters, printed documents and press cuttings regarding appointments for the Southern Nigeria Agricultural Department, including for Lagos. Includes information regarding proposed candidates for positions, terms of service, arrangements for study during periods of leave, and the sending of botanical specimens. Each section frequently includes discussion of other candidates that were discounted. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill and Watson, with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Watson and Oliver. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office.
Volume is arranged as follows:
---- Curators ----
-- Bell, Alfred Redmayne --
(Ff370-418) Includes discussion of Robert Service and A H Hoare.
-- Burr, Harvey G --
(Ff316-322) Includes discussion of James Robinson.
-- Culham, Arthur Brook --
(Ff282-315) Includes discussion of Frederick Cave and Albert Richard Gould.
-- Don, W --
(Ff62-72) Papers regarding recruitment, training and death.
-- Farquharson, C O --
(Ff174-240) Papers regarding Charles O Farquharson and his appointment as Mycologist, equipment required and arrangements for study. Includes discussion of other candidates.
-- Farquhar, J H J --
(Ff55-61).
-- Foster, Edgar William --
(Ff2-42) Includes:
- REPORT BY J P QUINTON AND E W FOSTER, CURATORS OF THE BOTANIC STATIONS AT SIERRA LEONE AND LAGOS RESPECTIVELY, ON THEIR RECENT VISIT TO THE WEST INDIES 1902 (London: 1903).
-- Gill, Robert --
(Ff129-173, 326-344) Includes:
- COLONIAL REGULATIONS. CHAPTER II - OFFICERS (1908)
- WEST AFRICAN PENSIONS LAWS (1906)
- WEST AFRICAN COLONIES AND PROTECTORATES. GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SERVICE FOR CIVIL SERVANTS (1908).
-- Hartley, J E T --
(Ff345-369) Papers regarding private study tour, with correspondence with Francis Watts.
-- Hislop, Alexander --
(Ff116-128).
-- Kirby, A H --
(F325).
-- Quinton, J P --
(Ff2-13) Includes:
- REPORT BY J P QUINTON AND E W FOSTER, CURATORS OF THE BOTANIC STATIONS AT SIERRA LEONE AND LAGOS RESPECTIVELY, ON THEIR RECENT VISIT TO THE WEST INDIES 1902 (London: 1903)
-- Maitland, Thomas Douglas --
(Ff241-281) Includes discussion of Robert Oneby Leach.
-- Punch, Cyril --
(F1).
-- Wainright, Austin --
(Ff419-420).
-- Warren, Cyril --
(Ff421-448).
-- Williams, J L --
(Ff73-115) Papers regarding John Lloyd Williams, including dismissal or resignation, and subsequent employment.
Volume also includes (ff43-54) papers regarding further agricultural appointments, and the organisation of an Agricultural Association for the Lagos Colony and Protectorate, and (ff323-324) papers regarding appointment of F J Evans, and appointment of Chief Agricultural Inspector, Federated Malay States. |