Six botanical papers by James Kerr (1738-82), Bengal Medical Service 1770-82, including `Observations on Opium' which contain notes on the culture of the white poppy and the preparation of opium (with rough diagrams), a suggestion that the Company should monopolize the opium trade, and a calculation of the annual sales of Bengal opium.
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Six botanical papers by James Kerr (1738-82), Bengal Medical Service 1770-82, including `Observations on Opium' which contain notes on the culture of the white poppy and the preparation of opium (with rough diagrams), a suggestion that the Company should monopolize the opium trade, and a calculat...
Miscellaneous papers collected by Capt (later Lt-Col) Francis A Daniell (1774-1850), Madras Army 1793-1820, Adjutant and Quartermaster (1800-02) and Commandant (1802-06) of the Governor-General's Bodyguard, including accounts of operations against the Marathas 1803-05, and papers relating to the Bodyguard.
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Miscellaneous papers collected by Capt (later Lt-Col) Francis A Daniell (1774-1850), Madras Army 1793-1820, Adjutant and Quartermaster (1800-02) and Commandant (1802-06) of the Governor-General's Bodyguard, including accounts of operations against the Marathas 1803-05, and papers relating to ...
`Translation of Mir Ghoolam Hossein Khan's History of India': the manuscript published with modifications as `A Translation of the Seir Mutaqharin; or, view of Modern Times, being an History of India, from the year 1118 to the year 1195' [AD 1706-80] (Calcutta 1789).
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`Translation of Mir Ghoolam Hossein Khan's History of India': the manuscript published with modifications as `A Translation of the Seir Mutaqharin; or, view of Modern Times, being an History of India, from the year 1118 to the year 1195' [AD 1706-80] (Calcutta 1789).
Letter from Dr Patrick Russell (1727-1805), Physician to English Factory at Aleppo 1753-71, Madras Medical Service and botanist in the Carnatic to the East India Company 1785-89, concerning his proposal for a natural history survey; also `Catalogue of Plants collected chiefly in the Circars' copied by Russell from a catalogue by Dr John Gerhard Koenig (1728-85), botanist and natural historian to the Company 1778-85.
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Letter from Dr Patrick Russell (1727-1805), Physician to English Factory at Aleppo 1753-71, Madras Medical Service and botanist in the Carnatic to the East India Company 1785-89, concerning his proposal for a natural history survey; also `Catalogue of Plants collected chiefly in the Circars' copi...
`Embassies to China': an anonymous history of European embassies to China with some further remarks on relations with that country, possibly written in connection with Colonel Cathcart's (1787) or Lord Macartney's (1792-94) embassy to China.
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`Embassies to China': an anonymous history of European embassies to China with some further remarks on relations with that country, possibly written in connection with Colonel Cathcart's (1787) or Lord Macartney's (1792-94) embassy to China.
Letter book of James Buchanan containing copies of his correspondence as Agent to the Nawab of Arcot on transactions with the Dutch concerning the pearl and `chank' fisheries, and relations with the English, Dutch and French.
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Letter book of James Buchanan containing copies of his correspondence as Agent to the Nawab of Arcot on transactions with the Dutch concerning the pearl and `chank' fisheries, and relations with the English, Dutch and French.
Itineraries written or collected by Capt (later Sir) Alexander Allan, Bart (d 1820), Madras Army 1780-1804, East India Company Director 1814-20, compiled while serving in the Corps of Guides and containing measurements and other information on various routes in the Carnatic and south India, including `The Field Book of the Marches of the Army under the Command of Major-General Medows...[1790-91]' during the third Mysore War.
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Itineraries written or collected by Capt (later Sir) Alexander Allan, Bart (d 1820), Madras Army 1780-1804, East India Company Director 1814-20, compiled while serving in the Corps of Guides and containing measurements and other information on various routes in the Carnatic and south India, inclu...
`Memoir for illustrating a Geographical Sketch of Nepaul and the Adjacent Countries': account by Capt (later Maj-Gen) William Kirkpatrick (1754-1812), Bengal Army 1773, of his mission to Nepal in 1793, later published as `An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul' (London 1811). [For another manuscript copy of the `memoir' see Mss Eur F 0228/34].
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`Memoir for illustrating a Geographical Sketch of Nepaul and the Adjacent Countries': account by Capt (later Maj-Gen) William Kirkpatrick (1754-1812), Bengal Army 1773, of his mission to Nepal in 1793, later published as `An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul' (London 1811). [For another manuscript...
Copies of official papers recording events leading to the embassy of Capt (later Lt-Col) Michael Symes (c1753-1809), British Army 1787-1809, to Burma in 1795, of which he published an account entitled `An account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava' (London 1800).
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Copies of official papers recording events leading to the embassy of Capt (later Lt-Col) Michael Symes (c1753-1809), British Army 1787-1809, to Burma in 1795, of which he published an account entitled `An account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava' (London 1800).
`Journal of an Expedition to the Molucca Islands under the Command of Admiral Rainier with some account of these Islands at the time of their falling into our hands, etc', by Capt (later Lt-Col) Walter Caulfield Lennon, Madras Army 1782-1810, principal engineer and secretary to the expedition.
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`Journal of an Expedition to the Molucca Islands under the Command of Admiral Rainier with some account of these Islands at the time of their falling into our hands, etc', by Capt (later Lt-Col) Walter Caulfield Lennon, Madras Army 1782-1810, principal engineer and secretary to the expedition.