| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, printed documents and press cuttings regarding subjects of economic and botanical interest relating to China. Includes letters to [?William Jackson Hooker], Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Morris; and includes letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson, Stapf, and Hemsley. Includes correspondence with the Foreign Office, London Office of the Inspectorate General of Chinese Maritime Customs, and consular officials. Includes illustrations and specimens of seeds and fibre.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
General
-- China and Japan. Vegetable Productions --
(Ff1-52) Papers regarding vegetable products, including medicinal usage, and on specimens from North Formosa sent by J Watters to the Kew Museum. Includes illustration of Gymnocladus chinensis, Baill.
-- Ichang Products --
(Ff53-69) Includes printed black and white illustrations of people, objects, transportation and packaging including tea; and the following printed document:
- 'Animal, Fossil, Mineral and Vegetable Products of the Ichang Consular District' (1884).
-- South Manchuria; Newchwang --
(Ff70-79) Papers regarding hemp, jute and indigo (Polygonum tinctorium [Persicaria tinctoria], perilla ocymoides [Perilla frutescens] and abutilon avicennae).
-- Wenchow --
(Ff80-85) Printed document regarding agricultural products in Wenchow, including oil cabbage and China jute.
Special
Fibres
-- Chinese jute, Hemp skins --
(Ff86-125) Papers regarding cultivationn and on specimens sent to Kew. Includes report on cultivation of Abutilon and the extraction of its fibre, and the following printed document:
- CHINA. IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS. CHINESE JUTE (1891) (Ff100-105). Report prepared by A Henry following enquiries by W Thistleton-Dyer discussing Chinese textile plants including abutilon, hemp, ramie.
-- Kiungchow Pineapple --
(Ff126-135). Letters regarding export of pineapple fibres initially mis-identified as pandanus and hemp, and specimens sent to Kew.
-- Pueraria [Thunbergiana] --
(Ff136-180) Corresponednce regarding cloth made from Pueraria in Corea [Koera] and China. Includes fabric sample (f159) with report on its manufacture, and papers regarding cloth made from the 'Ko plant'.
-- Agave vivipara --
(Ff181-184). Correspondence from A Hosie regarding identification of agave species in Formosa [Taiwan].
-- Native Cloth --
(Ff185-192) Includes:
- FOREIGN OFFICE. REPORTS ON SUBJECTS OF GENERAL AND COMMERCIAL INTEREST. CHINA. REPORT ON THE MANUFACTIRES OF NATIVE CLOTH IN THE CONSULAR DISTRICT OF PAKHOI (London: Harrison and Sons for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887), regarding local cotton cloth production in Pakhoi [Beihai].
-Correspondence regarding obtaining yellow beans used for indigo dyeing.
-- Formosa Phoenix --
(Ff193-197) Letters from George Phillips, HM Consul in Taiwan, regarding sending specimens of Phoenix farinifera [Phoenix pusilla] to Kew falsely thought to be Cycas specimens.
-- Chamaerops excelsa par M J Gay --
(Ff198-209) Includes:
- LE CHAMAEROPS EXCELSA (THUNB.) SA PATRIE, LE CLIMAT QUI LUI CONVIENT, SON INTRODUCTION DANS L'EUROPE OCCIDENTALE, LES CHANCES QU'IL A D'Y ETRE NATURALISÉ, SON FIBRILLITIUM, LES USAGES ECONOMIQUES AUXQUELS IL PEUT SERVIR (1861).
-- Matting --
(Ff210-244) Papers including letters from Cooper, Hance, and E Bretschneider, with sample (f230) [?of palm fibres from Chamaerops fortunei [Trachycarpus fortunei] or Caryota] and seed specimens. Includes:
- H F Hance, ON THE SOURCES OF THE "CHINA MATTING" OF COMMERCE (1879)
- H F Hance, ON A NEW CHINESE CARYOTA (1879)
- (Ff232-241) STRAW MATTING FROM CHINA AND JAPAN [with illustrations]. Promotional catalogue for matting by Treloar and Sons, London. Includes printed colour illustrations depicting production stages in China, including harvesting reeds, weaving and packing.
-- Paper: Broussonetia [papyrifera] --
(Ff251-255) Papers regarding paper making in 'Corea' [Korea].
-- Paper: Khotanese --
(Ff245-250) Papers regarding method of making 'old Turkestan Paper'. |
| Abutilon avicennae var. chinense |
| Pueraria montana var. lobata |