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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 10 - Tropical Africa
  - 7 - Nigeria

Ref No	MCR/10/7/7
Alt Ref No	MR/483
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 10.36
Title	Lagos: Rubber
Description	Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, and diagrams and illustrations, regarding rubber cultivation, preparation and trade in Lagos, including the exchange and analysis of botanical specimens. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson and Prain; with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Stapf, Watson, Skan, Hill Prain, Hillier and Pearson. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, and the Imperial Institute. Volume is arranged in the following sections: -- Lagos Rubber - Kickxia africana, Funtumia elastica; 1894-1908 -- (Ff1-200) Papers regarding the cultivation, preparation and trade of rubber, including 'Indiarubber'. Includes information regarding the adulteration of Lagos rubber, method of tapping trees, and papers regarding a bill to establish a forestry department and regulation of forests. Includes report of F G R Leigh and T Dawodu [also written Bawodu] ['Native' Assistant Curators who trained at Kew]. Includes: - NEW RUBBER INDUSTRY IN LAGOS. (KICKXIA AFRICANA, BENTH.) (1895) - SOUTHERN NIGERIA. ACCOUNT OF A VISIT MADE TO THE FEDERATED MALAY STATES BY MR N C MCLEOD, DEPUTY CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS, SOUTHERN NIGERIA, IN ORDER TO STUDY AND REPORT ON RUBBER PLANTATIONS THERE AND THE METHODS OF COLLECTION AND PREPARATION OF THE LATEX FROM RUBBER PRODUCING PLANTS IN USE IN MALAYA (1908). -- Ceara Rubber -- (Ff201-215) Papers regarding Ceara Rubber [Manihot Glaziovii]. -- Funtumia leaves -- (Ff216-220) Papers regarding analysis. -- Landolphia Heudelotii -- (Ff221-223) Papers regarding Hancornia Speciosa and Landolphia Heudelotii. -- Tabernamontana crassa -- (Ff224-226). -- Fungoid diseases and Parà Rubber -- (F227) Paper regarding treatment of fungoid disease of parà rubber plants. -- India rubber cutting grooves -- (Ff228-231) Papers regarding method for cutting grooves in rubber trees. -- Root rubber -- (Ff232-270) Papers regarding 'root rubber' including drawings of white and black hevea, and discussion of Landolphia. -- Soil for Parà rubber -- (Ff271-276).
Date	30 Jun 1894-27 Oct 1909
Format	Manuscript papers
	Typescript
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
	Illustration
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English
	German
	French

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