| Description | Printed documents with manuscript annotation, and manuscript letters and notes, regarding exploration and economic products in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Burmah [Myanmar] and Korea. Printed documents frequently include printed maps, and printed colour illustrations [including chromolithographs]. Includes manuscript note by Charles Ford [Superintendent, Hong Kong Botanical Gardens].
Printed documents comprise:
- (1) CHINA. NO. 4 (1864). COMMERCIAL REPORTS FROM HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL IN CHINA, FOR THE YEAR 1862. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1864) (Pp1-78)
With tables of goods imported and exported including textiles, opium, food, spices, tea; and meteorological tables. Reports for ports at Newchang [Haicheng], Tien-tsin [Tianjin], Hankow [Hankou], Foo-chow-foo [Fuzhou], Kiu-kiang [Jiujiang], Che-foo [Yantai], Swatow [Shantou], Canton [Guangdong], Amoy [Xiamen], Formosa [Taiwan].
- (2) CHINA. NO 2 (1865). CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING DIRECT COMMERCE WITH THE WEST OF CHINA FROM RANGOON. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1865) (Pp1-101)
Includes expedition journals, meterological tables, and discussion of Chinese products being sold in Burma, including textiles andtea.
- (3) REPORTS BY CONSUL SWINHOE OF HIS SPECIAL MISSION UP THE RIVER YANG-TSZE-KIANG, ETC [1869] (Pp1-27)
Includes tables of products traded from 1863-1868 (p20), and map marked with locations where tea is grown (p21b).
- (4) REPORT BY MR ADAMS, SECRETARY TO HER MAJESTY'S LEGATION IN JAPAN, ON THE CENTRAL SILK DISTRICTS OF JAPAN [1869] (Pp1-17)
Expedition to silk-making districts in Mayebashi [Maebashi], Shinshiu, Koshiu and Hachoji, with descriptions of local mulberry and silkwork cultivation, and silk processing methods. Includes map (p12b) and route table (p13).
- (5) REPORTS BY CONSUL LOWDER ON THE TRADE OF THE PORT OF NIIGATA, IN JAPAN [1869] (Pp1-5)
- (6) REPORT RESPECTING INQUIRIES INTO THE CULTURE OF THE SILKWORM, MADE BY AN ITALIAN MISSION INTO THE INTERIOR OF JAPAN [1869] (Pp1-4) Written in French.
- (7) JAPAN. NO 1. THIRD REPORT BY MR ADAMS ON SILK CULTURE IN JAPAN, DATED AUGUST 10, 1870. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1871)
Includes printed diagrams and colour illustrations of mulberry leaves and silkworms, and people producing silk thread, and maps.
- (8) REPORT OF A TOUR IN JAPAN BY MR TROUP [1870] (P1-6)
Discusses journey around Niigata, the eastern part Echigo province, and Iwashio and Uzen provinces, with descriptions of local agriculture and silk production. Includes map (p4b).
- (8b) JAPAN. NO 4 (1871) REPORTS ON THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER IN JAPAN (London: Harrison and Sons, 1871)
Includes printed colour illustrations of people preparing fibres for paper-making at stages from cultivation to packing. With lists of paper articles (pp12, 16-24) makred for specimens sent to Kew Museum, 1870.
- (9) DESPATCHES FROM MR ADAMS, HER MAJESTY'S SECRETARY OF LEGATION AT YEDO, RESPECTING THE DETERIORATION OF SILK IN JAPAN [1871] pp.1-13
Reports on quality of silk production in Japan for the European export markets, with some comparisons to the industry in China.
- (10) REPORT BY MR ROBERTSON, HER MAJESTY'S CONSUL AT KANAGAWA, ON SILK CULTIVATION IN JAPAN [1871] (Pp1-8), with map (p2b).
- (11) JAPAN. NO 1 (1873). REPORTS ON THE PRODUCTION OF TEA IN JAPAN. (ILLUSTRATED WITH COPIES OF DRAWINGS BY A NATIVE ARTIST). (London: Harrison and Sons, 1873) [includes printed colour illustrations of people processing]
- (12) CHINA. NO 3 (1878). REPORT BY MR BABER ON THE ROUTE FOLLOWED BY MR GROSVENOR'S MISSION BETWEEN TALI-FU AND MOMEIN. [WITH THE ITINERARY AND MAP OF ROAD FROM YÜNNAN-FU] (London: Harrison and Sons, 1878) (pp1-33)
Includes 4 maps, and description of textile imports (pp6-7) and opium cultuvation (p26).
- (12b) TAMSUI TRADE REPORT,FOR THE YEAR 1881 [1882] (Pp1-38)
Includes map annotated with location of crops grown (p14b). With report on a journey to the Tamsui mountains to visit indigenous peoples (pp30-38), and illustration of tattoo (p33).
- (13) C Ford, CASSIA LIGNEA [1882] (Pp1-8).
Regarding cultivation and export value, with meteorological tables (pp6-7)
- (14) NOTES OF A JOURNEY BY MR HOSIE THROUGH THE PROVINCES OF KUEICHOW AND YÜNNAN [1882] (pp1-36)
Discusses local cultivation of opium, Includes vocabulary lists of Miao Tzu words (p11 & p31).
- (14b) EXTRACT FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1882 (Pp1-6)
Reports on trade and regulations in Corea [Korea]
- (15) 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) (Pp1-95). [Duplicated in MCR/4/2/11]
- (16) Ford, C. REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT FOR 1883 [1884]. Regarding Botanic Gardens Hong Kong.
- (17) CHINA. NO 2 (1885). REPORT BY MR HOSIE OF A JOURNEY THROUGH CENTRAL SSU'CH'UAN IN JUNE AND JULY, 1884. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1885) (Pp1-37) [Duplicated in MCR/4/2/4)
- (18) Ford, C. REPORT FOR 1884 OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT [1885] Regarding Botanic Gardens Hong Kong.
- (19) CHINA. NO 1 (1888) REPORT BY MR F S A BOURNE OF A JOURNEY IN SOUTH-WESTERN CHINA. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1888) (Pp 1-92)
With maps, vocabulary lists and pronounciation guides for indigenous languages (p8, pp.20.1-20.12, 72, 88, 90-92) and lists of specimens collected for Kew (p92).
- (20) COMMERCIAL. NO 11 (1893). REPORT BY MR HOSIE ON THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ITS RESOURCES AND TRADE. [WITH A MAP]. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1893) (Pp1-25)
Discusses agriculture and economic botany (including textiles, tea, oil, tobacco, sugar). Includes map annotated with places open to foreign trade.
- (21) COMMERCIAL. NO 1 (1896). REPORT ON FORMOSA, BY MR N PERKINS, ASSISTANT IN HER MAJESTY'S CONSULAR SERVICE. (London: Harrison and Sons, 1896). (pp.1-23)
Discusses imports, exports and economic botany; including textiles used by local and indigenous peoples of Taiwan.
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