Record

Ref NoMCR/15/3/17
Alt Ref NoMR/674
geographical classification 15.4
TitleJamaica: Cultural Products etc
DescriptionManuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, and press cuttings with ten black and white printed images of the Spring Garden and Chepstow Tramway in Portland, Jamaica, 1880 (ff99-108).

Volume contains following index:

-- Bamboo --
(Ff44-)

-- Black Pepper --
(Ff156-)

-- Cinchona --
(Ff111-)

-- Cocoa --
(Ff52-)

-- Coffee --
(Ff1-)

-- Herbarium (determination fund) --
(Ff165-)

-- Tramway --
(Ff97-)

Volume also contains the following index with additional detail:

-- Coffee --

---- Description of culture by G Thomson, Superintendent of Botanic Garden, 1874 ----
(Ff1-5)

---- Liberian. Notes by Morris on its cultivation in Jamaica (includes history of its introduction by Kew) 1881 ----
(Ff7-15)

---- and Cinchona, Lecture by Morris ----
(Ff16-17, 20)

---- Miscellaneous ----
(Ff21-43)

-- Grass for papermaking --
(Ff44-47)

-- Bamboo for papermaking --
(Ff48-51)

-- Cacao, mainly dealing with proposals for expending a grant of £600 on instruction in curing; also brokers' reports on cured cacao --
(Ff52-96)

-- Photographs of tramway privately constructed by W B Espent --
(Ff98-108)

-- Printed memorandum by Morris on seeds and plants introduced by him from Kew, St Helena and Madeira 1883 --
(Ff109-110)

-- Cincona [cinchona] particulars of trees from which herbarium specimens of Cinchona [officinalis], C, succirubra, C. hybrid, C. calisaya, C. ledgeriana, C. micranta were sent to Kew --
(Ff111-119)

-- Eupatorium villosum (Jamaica bitter bark)
(Ff120-121)

-- Jalap notes by Morris --
(Ff122-125)

-- Cacao notes by Morris --
(Ff126-128)

-- Tea notes by Morris --
(Ff129-130)

-- Cinchona, Carthegena bark in Sikkim and Nilgiris --
(Ff131-136)

-- Cardamoms --
(Ff137-138)

-- Cinchona officinalis, broadcasted in a new clearin [?] --
(Ff138-139)

-- Teak --
(Ff140-141)

-- Fruit exports --
(Ff142-)

-- Guinea corn from seed imported from Bechuanaland --
(Ff143-147)

-- Olive --
(Ff147-)

-- Cinchona febrifuge from Jamaica --
(Ff148-152)

-- Elephant Sugarcane --
(Ff153-155)

-- Pepper, introduction of Balamcotta, Calluvully and Kew var. --
(Ff156-160, 162-164)

-- Sechium edule --
(Ff161-)

-- Herbarium, payment to Kew of £15 per annum for naming Jamaica plants --
(Ff165-232)

-- Jamaica Flora, proposals for --
(Ff233-243).
DateOct 1874-28 Nov 1899
FormatManuscript papers
Typescript
Press cuttings
Published documents
Collection TitleMiscellaneous Reports
LevelFile
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
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