CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920 — Page 93

MEMORANDUM OF MR.DAWE'S CAREER.

Service in Uganda,

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Appointed in 1902 by the Foreign Office as Assistant in the Botani- j

cal Forestry and Scientific Department of the Uganda Protectorate;

promoted Head of that Department in 1903.

While in Uganda controlled agricultural, forestry,botanicalmeteoro-

logical and hydrographic services. Directed the Botanic Gardens at

Entebbe, and established Experimental Flantations,Model Farma and

Cotton Seed Farms in different parts of the castry. Initiated rubber,

Bacao and coffee planting, as well as the system of cotton planting

anongst the natives which has proved so successful, and forms to-day

the principal planting industry and most important export from the

country.

Hr.Dawe was the first agricultural official to undertake the sys-

topatic investigation of the agricultural and forest resources of

the Protectorate. In the year 1905 he undertook a tour through the

country, visiting little and unknown parts,which occupied eight months.

An account of the results of this journey was published in the fore

of a blue book (Cd.2904), and also in the Linnean Societies' Journal

(Vol.37 November 1906). On this journey Mr.Dawe discovered three

new species of Landolphią rubber vines,viz.,L.Dave), I ugandengis and

b. turbinata, the former being a most important source of rubber.

Mr.Dawe was also the first to discover in Uganda the existence of the

Lagos Silk rubber tree,Funtunia elastica. Attempts had,previous to

this discovery, been made to import and establish this tree from

West Africa, and this important find resulted in the formation of the

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