| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding economic botany, plant collecting, and botanical training and recruitment, relating to China, Tibet, Bhutan, Korea and Hong Kong. Includes material regarding specimens sent to Kew. Includes letters to William Jackson Hooker, Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Stapf and Nicholson, and letters and notes from Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill, Oliver, [William] Watson, Jackson, [William Botting] Hemsley and [Charles Henry] Wright. Includes correspondence between Kew and the Foreign Office, India Office, and the London Office of the Inspectorate General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
China
-- General --
(Ff1-173)Papers including regarding botanical exploration by Alexander Hosie, botanical training of C W Campbell and E C C Wilton, and on specimens given by W R Carles to Kew. Printed documents comprise:
- (Ff7-55) CHINA. NO 2 (1884). REPORT BY MR HOSIE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH THE PROVINCES OF SSU'CH'UAN, YÜNNAN, AND KUEI CHOU: FEBRUARY 11 TO JUNE 14, 1883. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1884) [Duplicated in MCR/4/2/8]
Describes the cultivation and trade of local crops and economic products, including vegetables, tea, cotton.
- (Ff70-123) CHINA. NO 5 (1904).REPORT BY CONSUL-GENERAL HOSIE ON THE PROVINCE OF SSŬCH'UAN. [WITH TWO MAPS] (London: Harrison and Sons, 1904)
- (Ff124-169) CHINA. NO 1 (1905). REPORT BY MR A HOSIE, HIS MAJESTY'S CONSUL-GENERAL AT CHENGTU, ON A JOURNEY TO THE EASTERN FRONTIER OF THIBET [TIBET] [WITH A MAP]. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1905).
Discusses cultivation of local products including tea, tobacco, woods, and export of tea.
-- General: Ichang --
(Ff174-175). Letters between the Foreign Office and Kew, sending a proof of a consular report on Ichang [Yichang] on November 9 1908, and asking the Director of Kew to comment on it prior to publication.
-- General: Shanghai --
(Ff176-197) Papers regarding employment of Alec Arthur, Donald Macgregor and William Henry Etterley by the Municipal Council of Shanghai. Includes letters from A R Burkill.
-- General: Weihaiwei --
(Ff198-218t) Papers regarding report by Dunn on agricultural development and reafforestation in Weihaiwei, and recruitment of J Gibbons as fruit grower. Printed documents comprise:
- John J Gibbons, REPORT ON THE GROWING OF FRUIT, TREES, SHRUBS, FLOWERS, AND VEGETABLES, AT WEIHAIWEI, FROM 1905 TO 1909 (Weihaiwei: Weihaiwei Mission Press, 1909)
- S T Dunn, REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL AND AFFORESTATION POSSIBILITIES OF WEIHAIWEI (Hongkong: Noronha [and] Co, 1904).
-- Plant Collections --
(Ff218w-219).
---- Bhutan ----
(Ff220-224b) Letters from A K Bulley regarding proposed arrangements for Ronald E Cooper to collect plants in Bhutan.
---- Canton ----
(Ff225-230) Papers regarding specimens collected by Vice Consul [W R] Carles. With multiple copies of specimen lists discussing botanical names, local Cantonese names, romanisation, and corrections.
---- Ch'ungch'ing ----
(Ff231-238) Papers regarding transmission of specimens to Kew from Chongqing and Szechuan.
With list of plants with Chinese names and uses, and letter from Frederick S A Bourne, 13 October 1885
---- Corea ----
(Ff239-244). Papers include list of seeds and uses as food, dye and cosmetics.
---- Fokien ----
(Ff245-248). CENTRAL FOKIEN. A TRIP UP THE RAPIDS. South China Morning Post (1908), Newspaper cutting regarding a journey by S. T. Dunn to collect flora, undertaken by colonial administrators and Chinese plant collectors.
---- Formosa ----
(Ff249-251) Includes:
- LIST OF PLANTS FROM THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA, OR TAIWAN.
---- Kansu ----
(Ff252-253) Papers regarding specimens sent for identification by a missionary at Sining, Kansuh province, North West China.
---- Newchwang ----
(Ff254-266) Includes:
- REMARKS ON THE BOTANY OF SOUTH MANCHURIA BY DR MORRISON, ACTING MEDICAL OFFICER, HER MAJESTY'S COUNSULATE, NEWCHWANG [1885].
---- Peking (Bretschneider) ----
(Ff267-279) Papers regarding collections by E Bretschneider, with letters from Bretschneider.
---- Turkestan -----
(Ff280-288) Letters from M Aurel Stein [Indian Archaeological Survey] requesting Kew's assistance in identifying fabric samples excavated in 1906-1908, with an interest in cotton.
---- Yunnan ----
(Ff289-298) Papers regarding George Forrest's Yunnan plants, with letters by Forrest.
-- Products --
---- Camphor ----
(Ff299-305) Papers regarding the Camphor Industry in Formosa.
---- Eucommia [ulmoides]----
(Ff306-324) Papers regarding Chinese rubber plant, experimentation, acquiring samples of seeds and live plants, including from New South Wales, and on prospect of cultivation in Britain.
---- Green dye, Sophora japonica ----
(Ff325-338) Includes request for specimens for Kew Museum, and the following report:
- Edward Schunck, THE YELLOW COLOURING MATTER OF "SOPHORA JAPONICA" [1894].
---- Fruit growing ----
(F339)Article regarding fruit growing at Weihaiwei.
---- Primula [obconica] injury to skin ----
(F340-341) Includes:
- Prof Dr A Nestler, HAUTREIZENDE PRIMELN. UNTERSUCHUNGEN UBER ENTSTEHUNG, EIGENSCHAFTEN UND WIRKUNGEN DES PRIMELHAUTGIFTES [with printed images].
---- Ramie stems ----
(Ff342-345) Papers regarding growing of ramie stems for experimental purposes at Kew.
---- Rhus, Chinese lacquer [Rhus oeinicifera sylvestris]----
(Ff346-357) Papers regarding analysis of specimens, with letters by K J Crow, Caledonian Varnich and Color Works.
---- Soap trees ----
(Ff358-365) Papers including information from Augustine Henry, and SOAP TRADE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, Special Consular Report (1898) regarding local ways of using soap and assessing the potential in trading foreign soap.
---- Sorghum ----
(F366) Paper from 'Indian Planting and Gardening' (1908) regarding manufacture of 'Samshu' from Sorghum vulgare [Sorghum bicolor] comparing North China and Manchuria to West China and Szechuan.
---- Tallow, vegetable ----
(Ff367-368). Papers discussing vegetable tallow tree ‘mu-tze-shu’ in Hankow. Includes information about its use in white wax, and export to Europe.
---- Trade vegetable products ----
(Ff369-401) Papers regarding Machilus thunbergii, trade reports, specimens of timber used in China, and of Chinese and Tibetan drugs, sent by Bretschneider to Kew. Includes:
- (Ff370-385) E Bretschneider, NOTES ON SOME BOTANICAL QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE EXPORT TRADE OF CHINA.
Printed document and newspaper cuttings from 'North China Daily News' (1881).
---- Wood oil ----
(Ff402-412) Papers regarding Aleurites Fordii and samples sent for identification. |