Heritage Materials

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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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    Congo - Gabon – Cameroun - Dahomey – Togo
    (J. Peyronnet, Paris., 1930) Herviault, A
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    Report of the Committee appointed to investigate the Possibility of Establishing a Permanent Bureau of African Industries.
    (Government Printing Office, Accra, Gold Coast., 1934) Government of Gold Coast
    In the course of their deliberations, the Committee have been impressed by the large number of local crafts and industries the germs of which already exist in the Gold Coast and which need organisation and direction for development. There are in addition many crafts and industries which exist in other tropical countries and which can and should be introduced to the people of the Gold Coast.
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    Despatch relating to the Oil Palm Industry with particular reference to a Subsidy Scheme for Palm Oil Mills
    (Government Printing Office, Gold Coast., 1930) Government of Gold Coast
    I have the honour to address Your Lordship on the subject of the Oil Palm industry in this Colony and to seek your approval of a scheme where under the United Africa Company propose, with the help of a Government subsidy, to make an experiment in developing that industry on modern lines.
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    The Equatorial Nile Project and Its Effects in the Anglo – Egyptian Sudan Being the Report of the Jonglei Investigation Team - Special Investigations and Experimental Data. Volume III
    (Government of Sudan, 1948) Jonglei Investigation Team
    This volume of our report contains the results of special surveys, investigations, and experiments upon which many of our conclusions concerning the effects of the Equatorial Nile Project and our recommendations for remedial measures are based.
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    A Description of the Gold Coast Hospital and a Brief Account of the History of Medical Progress in Accra
    (1923) Governor of the Gold Coast
    The opening of the Gold Coast Hospital marks an important epoch in the history of medical progress in the Gold Coast, and furnishes a suitable opportunity for recording briefly the provision made in Accra for the medical and surgical treatment of sick Africans in the past.
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    The Negro in Greek and Roman Civilization
    (John Hopskins University, 1929) Beardsley, G.H.
    No barbarian race held as continuous an interest for the Greek and Roman artist as the Ethiopian. Realistic portraits of other known races in the classical world are relatively few and belong usually to the Hellenistic and Roman eras. The negro, on the other hand, was rendered with the utmost fidelity to the racial type during the most restrained and idealistic period of Greek art. Attic vase painters who were content to indicate Orientals by their dress with scarcely any distinguishing marks of race, delineated with marked realism the woolly hair and thick lips of the Ethiopian. From its earliest appearance the popularity of the type never waned in any productive period of classical art.
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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.