Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, and printed images, regarding economic and botanic subjects relating to the Congo region. Includes papers regarding the cultivation and trade of economic products, including rubber, and the sending of botanical specimens, including for the Kew Museum. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Hill, Prain, Jackson, Watson and Nicholson; with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson, Oliver, Stapf, Watson, Hillier, Wright and Chipp. Includes correspondence with the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Government of the Congo Free State.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Botanic Gardens -- (Ff127-129) Papers regarding the promotion of botanic gardens in the Congo Free State and Belgium. Includes:
- BULLETIN OFFICIEL DE L'ÉTAT INDÉPENDANT DU CONGO. JARDIN BOTANIQUE ET JARDIN D'ESSAI DANS LE DISTRICT DE L'ÉQUATEUR (Mar-Apr 1900).
-- Caoutchouc -- (Ff42-56) Papers regarding cultivation, and replanting. See sections on 'Gutta Percha' (ff14-39), 'Root Rubber' (ff57-97) and 'Rubber, Cultivation and Preparation of' (ff98-106).
-- Coffee -- (Ff107-126) Papers regarding coffee disease and cultivation, including coffea robusta. Includes:
- Émile Laurent, LE CAFÉIER ET SA CULTURE AU CONGO (1898).
-- Gossweiler, J -- (Ff136-137) Papers regarding dried plants sent by John Gossweiler from the Portuguese Congo.
-- Gutta Percha -- (Ff14-39) Papers regarding trade, and introduction to the Congo. See sections on 'Caoutchouc' (ff42-56), 'Root Rubber' (ff57-97) and 'Rubber, Cultivation and Preparation of' (ff98-106). Includes:
- MESURES CONSERVATRICES: PLANTATION D'ARBRES ET LIANES À CAOUTCHOUC (1899).
-- Hirschberg, C W von -- (Ff139-143) Papers regarding identification of orchids collected in Katanga by C W von Hirschberg.
-- Iboga -- (Ff1-13) Papers regarding 'Bocca' [Tabernanthe Iboga]. Includes:
- TABERNANTHE IBOGA (1895) [with printed illustration].
-- Lugard, Sir Frederick -- (Ff144-148) Papers regarding investigation of medicinal plants in the Congo, and introduction of Indian medicinal plants.
-- Purdon, L -- (F135) Letter from Lindsay Purdon regarding sending specimens.
-- Pynaert, L -- (Ff130-134) Papers regarding visit of L Pynaert, Curator of Eala (Equator) Botanic Station, to other botanic gardens.
-- Root Rubber -- (Ff57-97) Papers regarding Carpodinus lancelolatus and Landolphia tholloni, with papers regarding John Holt. See sections on 'Gutta Percha' (ff14-39), 'Caoutchouc' (ff42-56), and 'Rubber, Cultivation and Preparation of' (ff98-106).
-- Rubber, Cultivation and Preparation of -- (Ff98-106) Papers regarding preparation of rubber in the 'Free State of the Congo'. See sections on 'Gutta Percha' (ff14-39), 'Caoutchouc' (ff42-56), and 'Root Rubber' (ff57-97).
Volume also includes (f138) letter from M T Dawe regarding the roots of Ecanda, or Turnip-rubber plant. |