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Prominent subjects include the extent of Bell's powers as Commissioner of Uganda; descriptions of officials, visitors, and African leaders; Bell's social life, recreation and health; attempts to encourage the development of the railways and water transportation; the cultivation of cotton and rubber; accounts of the sleeping sickness epidemic; and descriptions of Entebbe, Kampala and other places he visited (60 sheets).

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Subjects include financial estimates, building plans and the opening of Government House; entertaining and visitors; the hurricane insurance scheme; development of railways, roads, and a new port for Kampala; support for the cotton industry; visits to a Sleeping Sickness camp and an appeal for relief funds in Britain; the outbreak of famine; a visit to the CMS King’s School at Budo; a tour of the eastern provinces of the Protectorate; and a visit to British East Africa (67 sheets).

Scope and Contents This file contains source material that Bell collected for writing articles. The notes include material on superstition and folklore, tropical sanitation, the encouragement of native arts and crafts, fish, insects and animal behaviour. Among the notes are the published minutes of a joint meeting of the Royal Empire Society and the Royal African Society, held to discuss an address by Elspeth Huxley on the future of East Africa, a brief article on divination from ‘Notes Africaines’, July...