Notebook containing detailed descriptive notes concerning Mende flora, arranged under Mende names in alphabetical order.

This material is held atSchool of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Archives, University of London

Reference
- GB 102 PP MS 59/12
Former Reference
- GB 102 MS 98019
Dates of Creation
- 1927 - [1928]
Language of Material
- Mende (Sierra Leone) English
Physical Description
- 120pp

Scope and Content

In most cases the information given includes the scientific name of the plant and a dated note of the place where found.

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Archive Record|Table of contents

Papers of Frederick William MigeodPP MS 59

Notebook containing manuscript copies of correspondence, vocabularies and miscellaneous notes on the Niger, etc.PP MS 59/01

Notebooks containing manuscript Hausa texts, of a miscellaneous character, transcribed in Arabic script, transliterated and in some cases translated into English.PP MS 59/02

Account book: Manuscript notes on the service numbers, height and other records and identification markes of a number of Mendes.PP MS 59/03

Notebook: Manuscript and cyclostyled notes on the Mende and other peoples of West Africa.PP MS 59/04

Account book: Manuscript transcripts of passages from the New Testament in Mende, with an interlinear English translation.PP MS 59/05

Notebook: Index to African books. Manuscript bibliographical notes on West Africa.PP MS 59/06

Notebook: Manuscript notes on the distribution of a number of Sudanic languages.PP MS 59/07

Publication: Histories of Samory and Babatu, and [other raiders] written in Hausa by Hallam AbuPP MS 59/08

Account book: Manuscript notes of the names, height and head measurements of a number of Africans of the Gold Coast and Congo, followed by a few notes on rainfall.PP MS 59/09

Two notebooks containing manuscript notes on Ejura natural history in diary form.PP MS 59/10

Two notebooks containing descriptive notes of West African flora, arranged under native names in chronological order of finding.PP MS 59/11

Notebook containing detailed descriptive notes concerning Mende flora, arranged under Mende names in alphabetical order.PP MS 59/12

Notebook containing a manuscript English-Fanti vocabulary of words and phrases.PP MS 59/13

Envelope containing manuscript and typescript bibliographical notes on Liberia.PP MS 59/14