Mss Eur F252/48

Diary includes:

• Folio 1 verso: untitled photograph showing results of tree felling
• Folio 1a: handwritten notes with the heading “Gold Coast, February 1949” on miscellaneous subjects including species of plants [loose item]
• Folio 2 verso: untitled photograph showing a paved area with steps leading to archways of a white building
• Folio 3 verso: photograph of Forest Officer’s House in Koforidua
• Folio 4 verso: photograph of a double headed Oil-Palm tree near Koforidua
• Folio 5 verso: photograph of ferrying across the Volta River at Senchi
• Folio 6 verso: two photographs at Togoland Plateau showing (1) a view of Amedzofi from the road out of Vane and (2) the same view from the plains at Fumi
• Folio 7 verso: photograph of Mango Avenue at Kpandu
• Folio 8 verso: photograph of Fesi village, Togoland
• Folio 8 verso: photograph of Akrosi ferry, north Togoland
• Folio 9 verso: photograph of Otisu ferry, north Togoland
• Folio 9 verso: photograph of the Round-House at Keti (Kete) Krachi
• Folio 10 verso: photograph of Wood Ibis nesting in cotton trees (Bambli village, Togoland)
• Folio 10 verso: photograph of children in Bambli village, Togoland
• Folio 11 verso: photograph of Eucalyptus (?) citriodora 40 year old plantation (Yendi, north Togoland)
• Folio 12 verso: photograph of 5 year old cotton wood (Hartado’s Estate, Tamale N.T.)
• Folio 12 verso: photograph of 40 year old Khaya senegalensis tree plantation (Yendi, north Togoland)
• Folio 13 verso: photograph of a reservoir at Tamale (and showing vultures)
• Folio 13 verso: photograph of an avenue of Khaya senegalensis trees, Yendi
• Folio 14 verso: photograph of contour ridging on the Navrongo planning area
• Folio 14 verso: photograph of a chief’s home (Navrongo N.T.)
• Folio 15 verso: photograph of the home of Chief Adda Navropio at Navrongo
• Folio 15 verso: photograph of Chief Adda Navropio
• Folio 16 verso: photograph of the Sissli River bed on Navrongo-Lawra road showing Diospyrus, Anogeissus, and Mimosa asperata species of trees
• Folio 16 verso: photograph showing the preparing of the N.A. Estimates at Tumu near Lawra N.T.
• Folio 17 verso: photograph on the Navrongo-Lawra road showing Acacia albida, Acacia Rehmanni, Blighia, and Adansonia trees at Han, 40 miles east of Lawra
• Folio 17 verso: photograph of a Melia azedirach (azedarach) tree
• Folio 20 verso: photograph of denuded country on schist (Farfara, Nangodi)
• Folio 20 verso: photograph of Acacia Rehmanni, Campylocarpa and Butyrospermum species of trees (Navrongo-Bawku road)
• Folio 21 verso: photograph of Combretum scrub along the Red Volta near Nangodi N.T.
• Folio 21 verso: photograph of semi-terraced cultivation on weathered schist (Farfara village, Nangodi)
• Folio 22 verso: photograph of 10 year old plantation with Cassia trees (Bawku N.T.)
• Folio 22 verso: photograph of a view over intensively farmed land on the denuded Teshi Hills (1000ft.) (Kussasi village near Bawku)
• Folio 23 verso: photograph of J Lawrie and his horse “Tumtum” at Bawku N.T.
• Folio 23 verso: photograph of a tree (Parinari S.P.) on a riverbank 60 miles north of Tamale on the main road
• Folio 24 verso: photograph of a view of Manpong Scarp with rain forest on road north from Kumasi
• Folio 24 verso: photograph of a motor vehicle on the Manpong Scarp road
• Folio 25 verso: photograph of a motor car on the Mantong (Mamtong) Scarp road
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of Lake Bosumtwe near Kumasi
• Folio 26 verso: photograph of Khaya ivorensis planted as a 4ft. transplant two seasons ago (Bobiri, near Rest House)
• Folio 27 verso: photograph of Bobiri Rest House, showing Kinloch, Taylor and Gordon standing on the balcony
• Folio 28 verso: photograph of Royal Palm Avenue (Kumasi)
• Folio 29 verso: photograph of a view along the main road at Afram Headwaters forest reserve showing Ceisa, Triplochiton and Chlorophora trees
• Folio 30 verso: photograph of farmed semi-deciduous forest on the Kumasi-Bibiani road
• Folio 30 verso: photograph of Kumasi sawmill viewed from "C.F.’s" house
• Folio 31 verso: photograph of research rangers camp, Afram Headwaters
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of Entandro-phragma, Macrophyllum and Triplochiton species of trees in R.H. Dhankwa
• Folio 32 verso: photograph of Triplochiton ½ inch box wood in drying racks (Gliksten’s Dhankwa)
• Folio 32a: handwritten note showing the words “Barrett would like notes on Gmelina in the Gold Coast” (31st March 1949) [loose item]
• Folio 33 verso: photograph of shifting farming (1 season old plantain, Enchi Road)
• Folio 33 verso: photograph of a sawmill site at Samraboi
• Folio 34 verso: photograph of Royal Palm Avenue with Citrus and Rubber trees behind (Tarkwa)
• Folio 35 verso: photograph of Musanga trees, 6 years old with Lophira seedlings ‘once (1947) cleaned’ (Subri R.F.)
• Folio 36 verso: photograph of the felling area of 1943, cleaned 1944 (Lophira seedlings under Cynometra) (Subri R.F.)
• Folio 36 verso: photograph of logs of mahogany beside a railway track (Takoradi)
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of Gold Coast Elmira ‘larger’ Fort
• Folio 38 verso: photograph of Gold Coast Cormatin Fort at Abaazi
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of a scene from a balcony at Kristiansborg, Accra
• Folio 40 verso: photograph of a coastal scene looking inland at Kristiansborg, Accra
• Folio 41 verso: photograph of old cannon (4 cannons) at Kristiansborg, Accra
• Folio 42 verso: photograph of the ‘smaller fort’ at Elmira
• Folio 42a: handwritten note on “Africa termites” [loose item]
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of 40 year old teak trees at new R.H. site at Kpandu, Togoland
• Folio 43 verso: photograph of one year old transplants of palm plants at Kpandu, Togoland
• Folio 44 recto: photograph of a rubber plant at Kpandu
• Folio 44 recto: photograph of grass bundles at Fesi village
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of a market at Otisu Ferry, north Togoland
• Folio 44 verso: photograph of a village scene at Bambli, north Togoland
• Folio 45 recto: photograph of an oil palm plantation (CA. 1909, Yendi, north Togoland)
• Folio 45 verso: photograph of New Forest Guards quarters (Zawse, Bawko)
• Folio 45 verso: photograph of 1939 nim plantation on the River Levee
• Folio 46 recto: photograph of a typical village scene at Tili near Nangodi, N.T.
• Folio 46 verso: photograph of a termitarium on the main road 60 miles north of Tamale
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of a stock of timber of Entandro, Khaya and Triplochiton (Dankua)
• Folio 47 verso: photograph of A.Y.M.E. (Swiss) sawmill on Mamiri R.F.
• Folio 48 verso: photograph of Old Hammock Road, Tarkua
• Folio 48 verso: photograph of Mimusops heckeli plants of 2 seasons old and pruned (Subri Nursery)
• Folio 49 verso: two photographs showing a wooded area of serious recurrent wind damage
• Folio 50 recto: photograph of the Entandrophragma utile species of tree (30 miles north of Kumasi)
• Folio 50 verso: photograph of Savannah woodland in F.G.O. high forest beyond and looking south from Nkaranza-Ejura Road
• Folio 50 verso: photograph of Savannah woodland with Cussonia, Terminalia SP., Daniellia, Khaya senegalensis, Lophira and Butyrosp
• Folio 51 recto: photograph of Anogeissus schimperi species of tree (Nkaranga, Gold Coast)
• Folio 51 verso: two photographs showing a motor vehicle positioned between two logs of the sawn trunk of a felled Khaya Ivorensis tree named “Biggest mahogany known to Cansdale”
• Folio 52 recto: photograph showing the sawn trunk of a felled Khaya Ivorensis tree “Biggest mahogany known to Cansdale”
• Folio 52 verso: photograph of unusual felling damage to Entande utile
• Folio 52 verso: photograph of excessively buttressed Entande utile (30 miles north of Kumasi)
• Folio 53 recto: photograph showing the task of clearing a large fallen Ceiba tree from the road (Ejura)
• Folio 53 recto: photograph of roadside erosion in Savannah woodland (50” rain), Ashanti
• Folio 59 verso: photograph of the Kasewe Road at M50 from Freetown, Sierra Leone
• Folio 60 verso: photograph of farming on excessively steep slopes (Kasewe)
• Folio 61 verso: photograph of the trunk of a tall Ceiba tree at Kasewe
• Folio 63 verso: photograph of Hevea Avenue near Kenema
• Folio 64 verso: photograph of a view down the Sewa River at Kenema Ferry near Bo
• Folio 65 verso: photograph of Forest House (King’s) with old farmed hills behind (Kenema)
• Folio 66 verso: photograph of the Uapaca guineensis species of plant with stilt roots (F.G. Kanebu)
• Folio 67 verso: photograph of extraction devastation in Kambui Hills, R.F., Kenema
• Folio 68 verso: photograph of Koyiema Hill (proposed protected forest) from the road at Nyangoi R.F.
• Folio 69 verso: photograph of the Moa River from the ferry looking towards Kambi Hills Forest
• Folio 69 verso: photograph of a wattle and daub house under construction near Kenema
• Folio 70 verso: photograph of an area of secondary bush burnt for farming (Kenema/Bo road)
• Folio 70 verso: photograph of a bridge at M30 from Bo
• Folio 72 verso: photograph of village houses at M52 from Bo
• Folio 72 verso: photograph of the coastline at Lungi Airfield, Freetown
• Folio 73 recto: photograph of a Dove aircraft at Abidjan (Cȏte d’Ivoire)
• Folio 73 verso: photograph of Mongeri Ferry on the Bo/Freetown road
• Folio 73a: Intercolonial Service timetable showing departures and arrivals at airports from Lagos to Dakar and back to Lagos [loose item]
• Folio 74 recto: photograph of the river at M30 from Bo