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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 2 - North Africa and Orient
  - 4 - Egypt and Sinai

Ref No	MCR/2/4/1
Alt Ref No	MR/76
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 2.31
Title	Egypt: Miscellaneous
Description	Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings and illustrations relating to botanical matters in Egypt. Includes sample of seeds. Includes correspondence between Kew and the Foreign Office, Imperial Institute and the War Office. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Oliver, Morris and Prain; with letters and reports by Thiselton-Dyer, Stapf, Jackson, and Prain. Volume includes sections on the following subjects: -- General -- -- Colonisation, etc. -- (Ff1-9) Includes printed map. -- Nile: Irrigation -- (Ff10-11) -- Nile: Sudd -- (Ff12-30) Includes sketch. -- Suez canal; planting on banks -- (Ff31-45) Includes correspondence with Sir Charles Fremantle. -- Horticulture: Alexandria Society -- (F46) -- Horticulture: deterioration -- (Ff47-48) -- Horticulture: growing vegetables -- (Ff49-54) Includes letters from George Russel. -- Horticulture: [Royal] Plantation catalogue -- (Ff55-65) -- Horticulture: mealy bug (Ff66-86) Papers regarding the mealy bug at Alexandria. Includes: - R M Blomfield, THE COTTONINA AND AUSTRALIAN LADY-BIRD (1898). -- Plants disappearance from Desert -- (Ff87-98) Report by Ernest A Floyer, 1892. -- Seeds from Kordofan [Khordofan] and Daifour -- (Ff99-103) Includes list of seeds collected and sent to Kew. -- Special -- -- Acacia Lebbek, cf. 228-229 -- -- Agave -- (Ff104-115) Includes: - E A Floyer, L'AGAVA RIGIDA (1894) - E A Floyer, LA CULTURE DU SISAL EN ÉGYPTE (1896) -- Cotton -- (Ff116-119) ---- Bamia Cotton ---- (Ff120-174) Includes papers regarding seed exchange and supply with various institutions and governments. Includes report on 'Cultivation of Cotton in Egypt' (1893). ---- Disease [in Cotton plants]---- (Ff175-182) ---- [Cotton] Worm ---- (Ff183-190) Includes: - Williamson Wallace, REPORT ON THE OUTBREAK OF COTTON-WORM IN EGYPT IN THE SUMMER OF 1895 (1895) -- Cynerns Papyrus, Cf. Papyrus -- (Ff203) -- Glossostemon Bruguieri "Mooghâat"[Moghaat or Moghat] -- (Ff191-213) Papers regarding medicinal use, and sending plants to Kew. Includes letters by Admiral R M Blomfield and G Mockler. -- Hyoscyamus muticus -- (Ff214-218) Includes: - Wyndham R Dunstan, THE ALKALOID OF HYOSCYAMUS MUTICUS AND OF DATURA STRAMONIUM GROWN IN EGYPT (1901) -- Fibres; (cf agave) -- (Ff219-220) -- Firewood -- (F221) -- Fruits -- (Ff222-227) Regarding trade of oranges and lemons. -- Lebbek -- (Ff228-229) Printed document regarding the lebbek tree (Albizzia lebbek). -- Lettuce oil -- (Ff230-231) -- Lotus arabicus -- (Ff232-240) Includes letter regarding treatment for a poisoned animal, and letters from Wyndham R Dunstan. -- Medemia Argun [palm]-- (Ff241-258) Includes papers regarding their preservation and on sending samples to Kew. -- Moorghâat -- (F191-213) -- Moringa aptera -- (Ff259-277) Includes seed sample. -- Mummy case wood -- (Ff278-280) Papers regarding samples sent for examination at Kew. -- Mummy cloth -- (Ff281-282) Papers regarding samples sent for examination at Kew. -- Papyrus -- (Ff283-284) With printed images. -- Ramie -- (F285) Regarding seed supply. -- Rubber, Assam (Ff286-300) Includes letters by Ernest A Floyer. -- Rubber, [Congo?] -- (F301) -- Senna -- (Ff302-307) Regarding identification of 'Aleppo Senna' as Cassia acutifolia. -- Solenostemma Argel -- (Ff308-314) Includes papers regarding sending specimens to Kew. -- Tobacco -- (Ff314-321) With letter from Major N M Smyth. -- Tragacanth -- (Ff322-333) Regarding acquisition of seeds for Kew. -- Willows -- (Ff334-335).
Date	30 Jun 1871-2 Mar 1909
Subject	Botanical specimens
	Seeds
	Horticulture
	Tobacco
	Commercial products
	Cotton
	Fruit trade
	Rubber
	Ramie
	Colonization
	Lebbek tree
	Papyrus (The plant)
	Senna obtusifolia
	Medicinal plants
	Mealybugs
	Suez Canal (Egypt)
Format	Manuscript papers
	Typescript
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
	Illustration
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English
Language	French
Plant Name	Agave
	Glossostemon bruguieri
	Hyoscyamus muticus
	Lotus arabicus
	Acacia lebbeck
	Albizia lebbeck
	Medemia argun
	Moringa aptera
	Moringa peregrina
	Cassia acutifolia
	Senna alexandrina
	Solenostemma argel
	Solenostemma oleifolium
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Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/321	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Foreign Office; 1782-1968	1782-1968
DS/UK/170	Great Britain; Imperial Institute; 1888-1958	1888-1958
DS/UK/89	Hooker; Sir; Joseph Dalton (1817-1911); Knight; Botanist and second director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1817-1911
DS/UK/90	Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William (1843-1928); Knight; British botanist and third director of Kew	1843-1928
DS/UK/311	Oliver; Francis Wall (1864-1951); palaeobotanist and ecologist	1864-1951
DS/UK/216	Morris; Sir; Daniel (1844-1933); Knight; British botanist and horticulturalist	1844-1933
DS/UK/187	Prain; Sir; David (1857-1944); Knight; British botanist and director of Kew	1857-1944
DS/UK/318	Stapf; Otto (1857-1933); Austrian botanist and taxonomist	1857-1933
DS/UK/224	Bean; William Jackson (1863-1947); botanist and plantsman	1863-1947
DS/UK/439	Russell; George (1857-1951)	1857-1951
DS/UK/440	Fremantle; Sir; Charles (1834-1914); Knight	1834-1914
DS/UK/441	United Kingdom; War Office; 1857-1964	1857-1964
DS/UK/442	Dunstan; Wyndam Rowland (1861-1949)	1861-1949
DS/UK/443	Egypt; The Alexandria Horticultural Society; Fl 1908	Fl 1908

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