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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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    The Gold Coast 1731 – 1739
    (1731) Government of the Gold Coast
    Extracts from the Journals, Correspondence with Out- Forts, Despatches &c, of the Directors – General of the Netherlands West India Company
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    The Gold Coast 1639 – 1645
    (1639) Government of the Gold Coast
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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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    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, 1925) Government of the Gold Coast
    His Excellency the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gold Coast has been pleased to sanction an attempt to sustain in the Gold Coast the periodical issue of a journal of review of historical and scientific interest on the lines of the admirable Bulletin du Comit" d'Etudes Historiques et Scientifiques de l'Afrique Occidentale Franfaise, or of such publications in parts of the British Empire as, for example, Sudan notes and Records, or of the numerous records of the proceedings of County Archaeological Societies in England. Those coming to the Gold Coast from other parts of the world outside Great Britain have at times thought it a reproach to the Political Service of the Colony in particular that there should be no locally organised publication of studies on points of ethnological, anthropological and archaeological interest. Those of us who have spent some years in that Service know something of the difficulties which have militated against such production, but we know better than to attempt to explain them to an unsympathetic world and can content ourselves with taking the lead now in an endeavour to remedy the defect. It is not intended, however, that the pages of the Gold Coast Review should be restricted to contributions from members of the Gold Coast Political Service or even Government Officers generally, present or past. This first number is almost entirely composed of articles by members of the Political Service, but that is only with the intention encouraging the others. It has also seemed most convenient in the present circumstances of the Colony that the Review should be published under the auspices of the Government and not as a private enterprise, but it is very much hoped that this will not prevent all educated members of the community from regarding the Review as a possession, which with their support may become something of which we may all be proud. Apart from the contributions on subject of scientific and general interest that we may hope to receive from those in Europe with a knowledge of things West African, the Gold Coast itself contains a great variety of persons well qualified to write for the Review. It is hoped that the Administrative Officers of the Government whose duties bring them into close touch with the people of the country, will continue to contribute on points connected with the antiquities, traditions, rites, manners and customs of the Gold Coast: that other Government Officers will write on subjects of local llltere.t that may come under their notice either in a general way or from the point of view of their special professional qualifications: that those who are engaged in mining, agricultural, banking 01' mercantile pursuits will spare time from their engrossing preoccupations either to record for the pages of the Gold Coast Review some special aspects of their business as conditioned by local circumstance or to interest themselves in matters outside their business and, becoming amateurs of science and the arts in accordance with the best tradition of prosperous men of affairs III other communities, give the results of their interest to the world through the pages of the Gold Coast Review: and finally that natives of the country will not shun the Review as a Government publication or a preserve for Europeans, but will give us the advantage of special studies on matters connected with their own country. Such as we see now occasionally and of a "cry good quality III the all too ephemeral setting of the weekly newspapers. The late Mr. J. M. Sarbah und Mr. A. 13. Quartey-Papafio set a good example in contributions of great interest lo the Journal of the African Society, but it has not been followed, and we make a special appeal now to members’ of the Gold Coast Bar and other educated Africa to revive the fashion of making investigations ill a scientific spirit into the customs and institutions their own land and people and to put them on record in the Gold Coast Review.