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

Ref No	MCR/10/7/8
Alt Ref No	MR/484
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 10.36
Title	Northern Nigeria
Description	Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, press cuttings, and printed documents, with printed maps and images, relating to botanical and forestry subjects in Northern Nigeria, 'formerly part of Niger Protectorate', including the exchange and analysis of botanical specimens. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Morris, and letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Stapf and Sprague. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, and the Imperial Institute. Volume is arranged in the following sections: -- Reports -- (Ff1-61) Comprises: - NORTHERN NIGERIA. REPORT FOR 1902. (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1903). -- Reports: Economic products -- (Ff62-73) Comprises: - Wyndham Dunstan, NORTHERN NIGERIA. REPORT ON COTTON, GUM, AND OTHER ECONOMIC PRODUCTS (London: Darling and Son for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1905). -- Maps -- (Ff74-75). -- Botanical Specimens -- (Ff76-78) papers regarding request for analysis by Imperial Institute. -- Cola -- (Ff79-86) Papers regarding identification of 'kola' nuts. -- Cotton -- (Ff95-96). -- Forestry Department -- (Ff87-91). -- Grasses for culture -- (Ff92-94). -- Mosquito plant - ocymum viride -- (Ff97-133) Papers regarding basil plant [ocimum viride] claimed to repel mosquitos. -- Seeds from Kew -- (Ff134-135). -- Sugar Cane - Giant variety -- (Ff136-146, 152-155). -- Vines, West African -- (Ff156-175) Includes: - M A Lavallée, LES VIGNES DU SOUDAN (Paris: 1881). Volume also includes (ff147- 151) papers regarding visit of Ebenezer Glen to Kew relating to his visit to the 'Oil Rivers Protectorate'.
Date	3 Nov 1880-10 Apr 1911
Format	Manuscript papers
	Typescript
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English
Language	French

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