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78 x 98 mm. A view showing a sickly ten year old tree covered with fruit at Mamu.

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78 x 99 mm. A view showing the leaves of a sickly young tree with profuse flower development.

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Contains 29 pages of detailed case notes for five patients from 1898.

Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...

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78 x 95 mm. A view showing the deep scars (two-and-a-half year old) caused by excision tapping with the old V-shaped knife.

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75 x 99 mm. A view showing a forest clearing with felled timber in one of the Funtumia plots.

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77 x 96 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees.

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78 x 97 mm. A view showing a young African standing beside a rubber tree growing without early pruning or side shade.

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79 x 100 mm. A view looking along a pathway lined with rubber trees. Photograph probably by Christy.

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76 x 98 mm. A studio photograph showing various parts of Funtumia Africana trees grown in Benin City, Southern Nigeria, including leaves, flowers, fruit, galls and empty pods.

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78 x 99 mm. A view showing Cocoa, palm-oil trees, hevea and Funtumia elastica growing in a mixed plantation.

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77 x 99 mm. A view showing Christy's tent erected among a plantation of nine-year-old Funtumias.

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101 x 77 mm. A view showing a plantation of young trees and illustrating the method of shading the plants.

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100 x 77 mm. A view showing a plantation of young trees and illustrating the method of shading the plants. Photograph probably by Christy.

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100 x 76 mm. A view showing a plot of recently pruned four-year-old rubber trees on a communal plantation.

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75 x 95 mm. A view showing Funtumias growing in a communal plantation.

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78 x 100 mm. A view showing an African tapping a wild Funtumia tree with the aid of climbing slings and a gouge.

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78 x 100 mm. A view showing an African tapping a wild Funtumia tree with the aid of climbing slings and a gouge.

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78 x 103 mm. A view showing an African tapping a wild Funtumia tree with the aid of climbing slings and a gouge. Photograph probably by Christy.

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This diary (circa 80 pages) was kept by Christy during a tour of Nigeria and Benin to survey rubber trees growing in the wild and cultivated in plantations.

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The diary (circa 75 pages) records Christy's service as senior medical officer of the Second Battalion West African Field Force in northern Nigeria.

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The diary (circa 75 pages) records Christy's service as senior medical officer of the Second Battalion, West African Field Force in northern Nigeria. It includes accounts of campaigns.

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Diaries and medical notes written by Christy during his service in Nigeria.

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101 x 75 mm. A view of a plantation of seven-year-old Funtumias showing the effects of close planting and late thinning. With an African youth seated in the foreground.

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78 x 101 mm. A view showing the leaves of a sickly young tree with profuse flower development. Photograph probably by Christy.