| Description | Printed reports, with manuscript correspondence and press cuttings. Printed reports include printed images and manuscript annotation and highlighting. Includes manuscript [copy and draft] letters, 11 Feb-4 Jun 1885, from Joseph Hooker [in the hand of Thiselton-Dyer] and Arthur Elibank Havelock [Governor of Trinidad, 1885] regarding the style and contents of the reports prepared by the Government Botanist H Prestoe, and subjects including preventing the introduction of coffee leaf disease from Mauritius, Camoensia, the enlargement of the Herbarium, the creation of a 'permanent collection of authentically named indigenous plants', sugar cane sent by Kew, and requesting that Prestoe create a list of the known plants of the island.
Includes press cuttings, 4 Jun 1887-1 Sep 1890, from GALL'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER, NEW ERA, PUBLIC OPINION and THE PORT-OF-SPAIN GAZETTE praising and critiquing the reports, and on playing 'sacred' instrumental music in the Gardens on a Sunday afternoon, and objections from Protestant Clergy.
Printed reports comprise:
- 'Botanic Gardens. [Extract from the 'Trinidad Royal Gazette', 7th May, 1879]'
- (COUNCIL PAPER NO 71) REPORT ON THE BOTANIC GARDENS, TRINIDAD, FOR 1880 (Port-of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1881)
- 'Botanic Gardens. [Extract from the Trinidad Royal Gazette of 29th November, 1882.]
- 'Botanic Gardens, St Ann's. [Extract from the 'Trinidad Royal Gazette', 11th July, 1883]'
- 'Notice of Economic and Other Plants for Distribution at the Botanic Gardens, St Ann's', 1885
- 'List of Fruit and Other Useful Trees', 1886
- 'Council Paper. Report on the Botanic Gardens for 1882, together with returns for, and observations relating to, 1881'
- 'Trinidad. Council Paper. Report on Botanic Gardens, 1883'
- 'Trinidad. Council Paper. Report on the condition and operations of the Botanic Gardens Department for 1884'
- REPORT ON THE BOTANIC GARDENS, TRINIDAD, WEST INDIES, FOR 1882, TOGETHER WITH RETURNS FOR, AND OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO, 1881 (Port-Of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1883)
- J H Hart, TRINIDAD. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, AND THEIR WORK FOR 1887 (Port-Of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1888)
- J H Hart, TRINIDAD. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, AND THEIR WORK FOR 1888 (Port-Of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1889)
- J H Hart, TRINIDAD. JUNE, 1890. ANNUAL REPORT ON THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, AND THEIR WORK FOR 1889 (Port-Of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1890)
- J H Hart, TRINIDAD, 1890. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, TRINIDAD. AUGUST, 1890. ANNUAL REPORT. (Port-Of-Spain: Government Printing Office, 1891). |