Papers of the Agricultural and Economic Research Institute at Amani, Tanganyika

This material is held atBodleian Library, University of Oxford

  • Reference
    • GB 161 MSS. Eng. misc. c. 714-16; Eng. lett. c. 479-80
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1920-28
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 5 shelfmarks

Scope and Content

Papers of the Agricultural and Economic Research Institute at Amani, consisting of:

  • Copies of reports sent to the administration in Dar-es-Salaam by the Director of the Institute, Alleyne Leechman, 1920-1
  • Papers of the Director, including monthly reports submitted to him by the head gardener, 1921-5
  • Monthly reports of the head gardener, 1926-8, with lists of seeds available from the Institute, 1922-6, n.d.
  • Correspondence of the Director concerning the distribution of seeds, 1920-3

Administrative / Biographical History

Agricultural and Economic Research Institute at Amani, Tanganyika.

Access Information

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk).

Acquisition Information

The papers were given to the Library anonymously through the Colonial Records Project (Oxford) in 1967.

Note

Collection level description created by Emily Tarrant, Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts.

Other Finding Aids

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 44719-23.

Subjects

Agriculture