| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, and press cuttings, with printed black and white images of bananas being shipped from Jamaica to England, c1900 (duplicates on f123 and f322) and black and white photographs taken in Jamaica of possible Agave Karatto plants, 20 Feb 1884, (f202). Volume includes information relating to economic [also called 'cultural products'] in Jamaica, beginning with ‘a’ to ‘f’, including the fruit industry, exchange of plants, crop experiments, and pharmaceutical properties of plants.
Includes letters to Sir Joseph Banks, Joseph Chamberlain, Joseph Hooker, John Smith, and William Thiselton-Dyer; with letters from Henry Blake, William Fawcett, and Joseph Chamberlain. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, the Zoological Society of London, and the Board of Trade. Includes newspaper cuttings from GALL’S WEEKLY NEWS LETTER, THE DAILY GLEANER, THE SUPPLEMENT TO GALL’S PACKET NEWS LETTER, and THE JAMAICA POST.
Volume contains the following index:
-- Akees --
(Ff1-)
-- Andropogon nardus --
(Ff9-)
-- Bananas, preserved, and banana meal --
(Ff11-)
-- Bananas, fibre --
(Ff124-)
-- [Birds], insectivorous -- [?]
(Ff129-)
-- Bitter Bush --
(Ff133-)
-- Borassus flabelliformis --
(Ff137-)
-- Brya ebenus --
(Ff138-)
-- Carob --
(Ff141-)
-- Cassava --
(Ff160-)
-- Castilloa elastica [?] --
(Ff161-)
-- Cinnamomum Cassia --
(Ff162-)
-- Cloves --
(Ff165-)
-- Cocoanuts, Copra, Cocoanut Oil [coconuts]--
(Ff166-)
-- Contra yerva --
(Ff168-)
-- Cotton --
(Ff173-)
-- Cyphomandra betacea etc --
(Ff177-)
-- Divi-divi --
(Ff192-)
-- Eucalyptus --
(Ff196-)
-- Fibres --
(Ff124, 198-)
-- Forsteronia floribunda, G Don --
(Ff252-) Rubber.
-- Fruit industry --
(Ff294-)
Volume also contains papers regarding:
-- Coca leaves --
(Ff189-190)
-- Sicana spherica --
(Ff181-183, 186-188)
-- Sisal hemp --
(Ff237-251). |