| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents (with map), press cuttings, and photographs and watercolour paintings relating to Nyasaland [also referred to as 'British Central Africa', and part of current day Malawi]. Includes papers regarding the cultivation of economic plants including coffee and cotton; the sending of botanical specimens, and plant pests and diseases. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Nicholson and Jackson, with letters and memorandums by Thiselton-Dyer, Watson, Pearson, Massee, Morris and Hemsley. Includes correspondence with the Foreign Office, and letters from J McClounie.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
---- General ----
(Ff1-28) Comprises:
- R J Bernadin, L'AFRIQUE CENTRALE. ÉTUDE SUR SES PRODUITS COMMERCIAUX (1877) [with colour printed map].
-- Show at Mlanje, 1898 --
(Ff29-31) Newspaper cutting regarding vegetable products exhibited.
-- Economic plants at Mandala --
(Ff32-33).
-- Seed selection --
(Ff34-) Comprises:
- Samuel Simpson, THE IMPORTANCE AND NECESSITY OF SEED SELECTION, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF METHODS ADAPTED TO ALL CROPS (1905).
-- Scientific Department, Zomba --
(Ff38-49) Papers regarding plants sent to the Scientific Department, Zomba Botanical Garden, and including two watercolour paintings and two photographs by J McClounie. Photographs (f41) show 'Zomba (Old Residency Gardens)' and 'View from Zomba to Mlanje', 1903. Watercolour paintings (ff40-40a) are titled 'N Kara[?b]wi Peak from Nymkowa', 1902 and 'Mt Waller and Livingstonia from Nymkowa', [c 1902].
Includes:
- BOTANICAL REPORT BY MR ALEXANDER WHYTE ON BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (1895).
---- Special ----
-- Breadfruit --
(Ff50-55) Papers regarding transportation of specimens of breadfruit plants from Jamaica in transit for Livingstonia.
-- Cacao --
(Ff56-75) Papers regarding Theobroma cacao, and introduction of cacao seeds, with reference to George Cadbury, and the Zambesi Industrial Mission.
-- Chillies --
(Ff76-81) Papers regarding Capisum Baccatum seeds sent to Kew for commercial valuation.
-- Coffee --
(Ff82-226) Papers regarding cultivation of coffee in 'British Central Africa, failure of coffee crops, importation of new seed, wild coffee, coffee diseases and coffee shade trees [see sections below].
Includes:
- ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES RESPECTING COFFEE PLANTING IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (1896)
- H D Herd, COFFEE-PLANTING IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (1896)
- THE PROGRESS OF BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (1898).
---- Coffee, wild ----
(Ff158-163) Includes:
- WILD COFFEE IN BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA (1896).
---- Coffee diseases ----
(Ff84, 90-93, 96-102, 110-120, 133-136, 149 164-209) Papers regarding coffee diseases, including the 'empty berry'; regulations for the prevention of the introduction of leaf disease, and Hemeleia vastatrix in German East Africa. With reference to Guatemala.
Includes:
- Kenneth J Cameron, DISCOVERY OF THE CAUSE OF SPOTTED AND LIGHT BERRY (1899).
---- Coffee shade trees ----
(Ff103, 210-226).
-- Cotton --
(Ff227-278) Papers regarding cultivation, and cotton pests including regulations to prevent spread of cotton disease.
Includes:
- Samuel Simpson, INSECT PESTS OF COTTON (1905)
- Samuel Simpson, BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE. REPORT ON THE COTTON-GROWING INDUSTRY. (1905). |