| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, press cuttings and printed documents regarding Hong Kong Botanic Garden, including its administration, recruitment of the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent positions, and the herbarium. Includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Prain, and letters from Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Morris and Prain. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, and colonial government officials in Hong Kong, in addition to letters from Ford, Westland, Tutcher, Dunn and Green.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Appointment of Charles Ford --
(FF1-34) Papers regarding the appointment, and retirement of Charles Ford as Superintendent of Hong Kong Botanic Gardens.
-- Hong Kong Botanic Garden: Mr Ford --
(Ff35-170) Papers regarding administration and governance. Includes:
- CATALOGUE OF PLANTS FOR SALE IN THE GOVERNMENT BOTANIC GARDENS, HONGKONG (Hong Kong: Noronha and Co, 1895).
-- Proposed sale of nursery ground --
(Ff302-308).
-- European Assistant for Garden --
(Ff309-336).
-- Herbarium --
(Ff436-448).
-- Westland, Brenner Alex [Alexander] --
(Ff337-356) Papers regarding recruitment of Westland as Assistant Superintendent, and unsatisfactory performance.
-- Tutcher, William James --
(Ff357-377) Papers regarding recruitment as Assistant Superintendent.
-- Dunn, Stephen Troyte --
(Ff378-405) Papers regarding recruitment as Superintendent. Includes printed document for use in village schools, TEACHING OF FORESTRY METHODS (1909).
-- Green, Harold --
(Ff406-435) Papers regarding recruitment as Assistant Superintendent, following offering of post to Ernest H Wilson.
Volume also includes (ff171-301) reports on the Botanic Gardens, and newspaper cutting regarding publication of the FLORA OF KWANGTUNG AND HONGKONG by Dunn and Tutcher, 1912. Printed reports include:
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1901
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1902
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1903
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1904
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1905 (Hongkong: Noronha and Co, 1906)
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, FOR THE YEAR 1906
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, FOR THE YEAR 1907 (Hongkong: Noronha and Co, 1908)
- HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT, FOR THE YEAR 1908 (Hongkong: Noronha and Co, 1909)
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT (1910)
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT (1911)
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1911 (Hongkong: Noronha and Co, 1912)
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1912
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1913
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1914
- REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1915
Volume also includes loose report at rear of volume titled HONGKONG. REPORT ON THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE FROSTS ON VEGETATION (1893). |