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These materials consist primarily of the African, Furley and Folio collections which are being kept at the Africana section of the Balme Library, University of Ghana. Furley and Folio were Dutch writers in the colonial period in the history of Ghana

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The collection includes documentary materials relating to the history of Ghana, old books, maps, engravings, pamphlets and manuscripts but most of all archival material. Some portions of the Furley collection contains essays on the local history, customs histories and constitutions of the various tribes of the Gold Coast which was later published in two slim volumes by Welman on Ahanta and Peki

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Furley presented his enormous collection of documentary materials of various kinds to the library of the University College of the Gold Coast. After his death, his widow added to this collection some materials which Furley had collected in the last years of his life

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    Papers on the subject of the Accra Sisal Plantation in continuation of Sessional Paper No. IX 1922 – 1923.
    (Government Printer, Accra, Gold Coast, 1927) Government of the Gold Coast
    I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 874 of the 21st of December, forwarding copies of the Report of a Committee appointed to enquire into the working of the Sisal Plantation at Accra. At the time that this project was originally conceived you anticipated a profit of at least £ 15 10s. 0d. on each ton of sisal produced. This estimate was based upon a price of between £35 and £40 a ton at the port of export, representing approximately £65 a ton in England. The price, however, of sisal has dropped since that date to an average of about £25 a ton at the present time. At this price the Committee estimates that the annual profits of the plantation will amount to a maximum of about £5,500 a year, in which event the capital expenditure of £35,000 which will, according to the estimate, be required before the plantation is in full bearing, be paid off in about seven years.
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    Despatches relating to Colonial Veterinary Services.
    (Government Printer, Accra, Gold Coast., 1929) Government of the Gold Coast
    With reference to my Circular despatch of the 26th January, 1929, I have the honour to inform you that I have now considered the recommendations of the Committee which I appointed to enquire into the question of the organisation and efficiency of the Colonial Veterinary Services. The Committee preface their Report (Cmd. 3261) with an introduction in which they urge the importance of veterinary activities in the Colonial Empire and the need for strengthening the Colonial Veterinary Services and improving the standard of recruitment for them. They state their conviction that the Services should be made more attractive, particularly by the provision of higher salaries in .the senior grades and by an improvement in the status and prestige of Veterinary Departments, but they recognise that almost equally important is the provision of better training facilities in this country, and they refer especially to the condition of the Royal Veterinary College at Camden Town.
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    Report by the Conservator of Forests on Plantations in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
    (Government Press, Accra, Gold Coast., 1922) Government of the Gold Coast
    Three plantations or Agricultural Stations were inspected, viz: at Tamale, Yendi and Wa. The largest is at Yendi and was begun by the Germans many years ago, but there is no record as to when, there are three large Teak trees in the plantation which appear to be between 25 and 30 years old so it may be assumed that the age of the plantation is not more than 30 years.
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    Report and Recommendations of the Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor in March, 1928, to consider the problems created by the closure of Inefficient Schools.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, 1929) Government of the Gold Coast
    At a meeting of the Board of Education held in the Council Chamber, Accra, on the 12th March, 1928, various motions were brought forward by the representatives of Missionary bodies aiming at dealing with the situation which had arisen in certain schools through the introduction, of the Education Ordinance, No. 21 of 1925, and the Rules made thereunder.
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    Report of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of the State for the Colonies to formulate a scheme for the establishment in Britain West Africa of a College for the training of Medical Practitioners and the creation and training of an Auxiliary Service of Medical Assistants.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, Gold Coast., 1928) Government of the Gold Coast
    The establishment of a Medical School in British West Africa has been contemplated for many years. It has been stated that at the beginning of the century the late Sir William MacGregor, Governor of Lagos, was responsible for first advocating the desirability of such a scheme. Since that date, the subject has been under consideration from time to time and in 1921 Dr. J. M. O'Brien, Senior Medical Officer, visited Dakar and submitted a report on the School of Medicine there, on the lines of which it was suggested that a School of Medicine should be established in British West Africa. The formulation of a detailed scheme was, however, at that time considered to be premature, as the facilities for general education up to the required standard were lacking.
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    Correspondence relating to the Proposal to Close down the Gold Coast Commercial Intelligence Bureau
    (Government Printing Office, 1931) Government of the Gold Coast
    I have the honour to refer to the Governor's despatches No. 491 dated the 3rd July, 1929 and No. 26 dated the 7th January, 1930 on the subject of the Gold Coast Commercial Intelligence Bureau in which various arguments for and against the continuation of the Bureau were discussed at some length. Although measures have been taken to reduce the expenditure of the Bureau, the question of its continuance must now be further considered owing' to the need for drastic reduction of the Colony' s expenditure.
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    Report of the Gold Coast Mines Boards of enquiry 1959
    (Government of the Gold Coast, 1956) Government of the Gold Coast
    We sat in public in Takoradi on the 20th, 21st, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 30th and 31st days of January, 1956 and on the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th days of February, 1956 to hear the submissions of the parties to the dispute. On Sunday, 5th February 1956, we visited the Amalgamated Banket Areas Ltd. mine and the Taquah and Abosso Mines Ltd. mine (which had then just closed down) and inspected some of the companies' houses for employees and the Amalgamated Banket Areas Ltd. hospital. Both of these mines are in the Tarkwa area. On Saturday, 11th February 1956, we visited the property of Consolidated African Selection Trust Ltd. at Akwatia, and as some of the company's employees weri!not on strike we saw some of the company's mining operations. We also visited some of the houses of the company's employees and inspected the hospital. On both days we were accompanied by representatives of the Employers and of the Union. One member visited the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Ltd. on the 5th April, 1956, accompanied by the Secretary to the Board, and was shown some of the employees' housing, the hospital and the Eaton Turner development shaft
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    The Gold Coast Review Vol. 1. No I June-December
    (William Clowes and Sons Limited, 1925) Government of the Gold Coast
    His Excellency the Governor and Commander-m-Chief Of the Gold coast has been pleased to sanction an attempt to sustain in the Gold Coast the periodical issue of a journal or review or historical and scientific interest on the lines of the admirable Bulletin du comite d’ Etudes Histiques et Scientifique de l’ Afrique Occidentale Francaise or of such publication' in parts of the British Empire as, for example, Sudan Notes and Records or of the numerous I' 'cords 0[' the proceeding' of County Archreological Societies in England.
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    The Gold Coast Review Vol. II. No. 2. July-December 1927
    (Government of the Gold Coast, 1927-07) Government of the Gold Coast
    This third number of the Cold Coast Review marks a distinct advance in the range from which the material is derived. Out of ten contributors four are Africans and of those four two are outside the Government Service. Attention is specially invited to the first instalment of a History of the Adangme People, a contribution of rare ethnological interest, the writer of which was trained from boyhood as a fetish priest and afterwards educated by the Basel Missionaries . This history was written in the Adangme language and has been translated by one of The author's sons. Publication will be completed in three instalments and an edition will then be available in book form. Authors of articles and notes appearing in the Cold Coast Review are solely responsible for their statements and expressions of opinion.
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    The Gold Coast Review
    (Government of the Gold Coast, 1931) Government of the Gold Coast
    It is conceivable that the elaborate suggested for the guidance of those who might wish to send in contribution which appeared in the first two numbers of the GOLD COAST REVIEW may have been responsible for the small number of articles hitherto received for publication In order to remove the impression that only scientific articles are required and to make the Review more popular with a larger class of writer, I wish to say that I shall be glad to receive for publication in the REVIEW any short accounts on any of the following subjects Animals and animal life: wild domesticated and domestic: bird and bird life: trees, plants shrubs,flowers,their usefulness as medicine,etc fishes and fishing industry:laggons:rivers:forest:moutains and hill ranges:groves:customs and usages:customary laws:istitutions and the various constitutions in the Gold Coast: Monographs on fetishes: Castles of the Coast: interesting African personalities