| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, printed documents, press cuttings, illustrations and specimens regarding economic products in China and Korea, including their cultivation, manufacture, trade, and the acquisition of samples for the Kew Museum. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Morris, with letters and notes by Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson and Oliver. Includes correspondence with the Imperial Institute, Foreign Office, and consular officials, and letters from Hance. Folio numbers begin at f256, with this volume being an extension of MR/88.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
---- Camphor ----
(Ff256-274) Includes:
- THE CAMPHOR TRADE (1896), relating to trade in Formosa [Taiwan] and Japan.
-- Ngai camphor --
(Ff275-299) Papers including letters by Augustine Henry and M Fraser [HM Consul, Pakhoi]. Includes:
- D Oliver (ed.), 'Blumea balsamifera', HOOKER'S ICONES PLANTARUM (1891)
- AI CAMPHOR (1895).
Handwritten papers, letters and typed report by A Hosie on ai camphor in Formosa [Taiwan], including local names.
---- Varnish ----
(Ff300-307) Comprises:
- THE CREMONA PIANOFORTE (1887).
-- Rhus verniciflua [Toxicodendron vernicifluum] --
(Ff308-311) PRINTED CONSULAR REPORTS, Greater Britain (15 June 1891), regarding rhus vernicifera in Hankow [Hankou], the tea trade in China, India and Russia; sugar in Formosa [Taiwan].
-- Aleurites cordata [Vernicia cordata] [Chinese varnish tree] --
(Ff312-339) Includes:
- Dr Macgowan, SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE ON CERTAIN CHINESE PLANTS ACCLIMATISABLE IN THE UNITED STATES (1883). Concerning plants in China and Annam [Vietnam] including for varnish, oil and fruits.
- E M Holmes, NOTES ON SOME JAPANESE OILS. Concerning brassica, camellia and wool oils by the Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society following the International Health Exhibition at South Kensington.
- THE CHINESE OIL TREE (1897).
-- Eucommia --
(Ff340-345), papers regarding rubber extraction, and cultivation at Kew.
---- [?Talo [Tallow]] ----
-- Stillingia sebifera [Triadica sebifera] --
(F346).
---- Soaps ----
-- [?ningpo] soap --
(Ff347-349) Papers regarding gleditsia sinensis, and use in resucitating drowning people.
-- Native soap --
(Ff350-360) Includes:
- ALKALI LANDS IN NORTH CHINA (1894).
---- Drugs ----
-- Musk seed --
(Ff361-362) Papers regarding Abutilon indicum.
-- Evodia glauca [?Euodia glauca]--
(Ff363-365) P H Squires, 'The Identification of the Chinese Dye Bark Hwang-Peh', PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS (1888)
-- Ginseng --
(Ff366-373), papers regarding ginseng in China, Korea and Manchuria. Includes letter to W Thistleton-Dyer from Rev C T Collyer, Korea Mission, Methodist Episcopal Church (1903).
-- Star anise --
(Ff374-388)With letter from Charles Ford [Hong Kong Botanic Garden]. Includes:
- J D Hooker, 'Illicium', CURTIS'S BOTANICAL MAGAZINE (1888) [with illustration].
---- Dyes ----
-- Lam yip --
(F389) Newspaper cutting regarding 'Chinese Blue Dye' in Canton called Lam Yim (blue leaf) (1881).
-- Shu lang --
(Ff390-392) Handwritten papers from A Henry regarding shu-lang, specimens sent to Kew from Formosa [Taiwan] and printed report about shu-lang root.
Papers regarding Dioscorea rhipogonoides [Dioscorea cirrhosa] (1894).
-- Sophora [Erodia] --
(Ff393-401) Includes:
- J J Hummel, A G Perkin, THE TINCTORIAL PROPERTIES OF SOME INDIAN DYESTUFFS. - PART II (1895).
-- Gelsemium elegans --
(Ff402-409) Includes report from Government Civil Hospital Hong Kong about testing for poisons (1885) and colour illustration.
-- Vigna Catiang --
(MCR/4/2/3, ff185-192) Papers regarding yellow beans used in dying native cloth, identified by Kew as 'Vigna sinensis or Vigna Catiang'. For this section, see MCR/4/2/2.
---- Tea ----
(Ff410-418) - includes papers regarding tea industry in Formosa [Taiwan].
-- Formosa --
(F416).
-- Log Tea --
(F417).
-- Jasmine --
(F418).
---- Tobacco ----
(F419) newspaper cutting 'A Primitive Tobacco Factory', THE GARDENER'S CHRONICLE (1895), describing a Chinese tobacco factory in Macau.
---- Silk gut ----
(Ff420-450) Papers regarding liquid amber silkworm gut. Includes sample.
---- Curiosities ----
-- Polyporus lucidus [Ganoderma lucidum]--
(Ff451-454).
-- Tea root carving and Carved fruit stones --
(Ff455-474) Includes:
- 'Chinese Curios', CONSULAR REPORTS ON COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, ETC. (1892).
- Letters regarding specimens purchased for the Kew Museum [see Economic Botany catalogue 55509, 66437, 66438, 66439, 66445] |
| Toxicodendron vernicifluum |