1072: Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, communicating remarks on the subject of the defacement of postage stamps on letters previous to posting them
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.15 of 1861, dated 12 November 1861
1080: Papers regarding the London Exhibition of 1862
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a Report on the progress and result of the arrangements for the forthcoming exhibition, submitted to the Central Committee for Bengal at the meeting held on the 18th November 1861
1074: Correspondence regarding the time fixed by law for the cessation of Emigration to the French Colonies differing from that laid down for the British West Indian Colonies; the date fixed in the former case being the 15th March, whereas in the latter it was the 1st of March
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.86 of 1861, dated 12 November 1861; and a letter from J D Gordon, Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal, to W Grey, Secretary to the Government of India, dated 10th October 1861
1089: Letter from Joh. Ambr. Barth, Bookseller and Publisher at Leipzig, Saxony, to W Grey, Secretary to the Government of India, suggesting that a set of ethnographical heads representing principal races and tribes of India and High Asia, which formed a portion of the collections made by Messrs Schlagintweit during their employment in India, should be purchased for the Great Exhibition
1073: Correspondence on the subject of a proposed relaxation of the existing law in regard to the mode of remunerating Emigration Agents to the smaller West India Colonies
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.83 of 1861, dated 12 November 1861
1093: Correspondence relating to the deputation to Java of Dr Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, to take charge of Cinchona plants and seeds from the Dutch Government
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.97 of 1861, dated 21 December 1861; and a report by Dr Anderson, dated 4th December 1861, on the results of his visit to Java
1108: Correspondence on the subject of the augmentation of the Staff of the Geological Survey Department, and the creation therein of a grade of Deputy Superintendents
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.94 of 1861, dated 12 December 1861