| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding subjects of botanical and economic interest relating to China and Tibet, including individuals and organisations exchanging botanical specimens with Kew. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Stapf and Cotton; with letters from Hill and Prain. Includes correspondence with the Foreign Office and Colonial Office, and letters to Joseph Hooker from Colman Macaulay regarding Tibet.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
-- Canton Christian College --
(Ff50-54) Papers regarding a botanical survey of South China and on botanical specimens, including the McClure collection of Hainan plants.
-- Cowdry, N. H. --
(Ff55-59, 86-89) Includes letters regarding seeds sent to Kew from the Peking Union Medical College for identification.
-- Dunn, S. T. [Stephen Troyte Dunn] --
(F71-72).
-- Hu, H. H. [Hu Xiansu or Hu Hsien-Hsu] --
(Ff73-) Papers regarding establishment of the Department of Botany, National Southeastern University, Nanking, China; and ON sending specimens to Kew.
-- Learner, The Rev. F. D. [Frank Doggett Learner] --
(Ff137-139).
-- Sericulture --
(Ff1-49) Includes papers regarding specimens of cocoons and acorns sent to Kew, and 'questions and answers on the rearing of silk worms and the cultivation of the mulberry'. Includes:
- E Bretschneider, ON CHINESE SILKWORM TREES (1881).
-- Skrine, C. P. --
(Ff90-92) Letters regarding visitng Kew and plant identification, Apr-Jul 1925.
-- Tibet, Memorandum on relations with, --
(Ff103-121).
-- Tibet, Mission to, --
(Ff122-134) includes newspaper articles reporting on the tea trade (1886).
-- Tibet, Trade between India and, --
(Ff93-102) includes newspaper article from LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS, 10 Aug 1861.
-- Tibet, Wool regions of, --
(Ff135-136) includes article from CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL, 6 Dec 1886, concerning trade in wool and tea.
-- Wei hai wei [Weihaiwei] waste areas, planting of, --
(Ff60-70) includes letters between A P Blunt, Government House and A W Hill discussing planting for waste areas and sand dunes with grasses and acacia. |