File S&C 1510/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade, dated 23rd December 1880, regarding the funding of a proposed lighthouse in the vicinity of Cape Guardafui
File S&C 1512/1880 - Request from Joseph Baer & Co of Frankfurt for a copy of "The Textile Manufactures of India" by Dr Forbes Watson to show to their customers
File S&C 1514/1880 - Enquiry by John H Bell of Huddersfield regarding a reward for the invention of a machine for making thread or yarn from the fibre of the nettle plant
Scope & Content:
Includes a copy of the notification issued by the Government of India, dated Simla 31st August 1877, No.45, of a prize offered to the inventor of the best machine or process for the preparation of the fibre of the Bohmeria nivea (Rhea, Ramie and China grass)
File S&C 1516/1880 - Letter from the Government of India, Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, No.6 of 1880, dated 8th December 1880, acknowledging the receipt of the plates of the Indian Atlas referred to in the Marquis of Hartington's despatch No.114 (Statistics and Commerce), dated 19th August 1880
File S&C 1517/1880 - Annual report of the progress of the Archaeological Survey of India during the year 1879-1880 by Major-General A Cunningham, Director General of the Archaeological Survey
File S&C 1518/1880 - Copy of a report by Henry C Armstrong on the samples of turpentine from the India collection at the Royal Gardens, Kew, which had been sent to him for analysis
File S&C 1519/1880 - Letter from the Government of India, Department of Finance and Commerce, No.64 of 1880, regarding rules in force in Calcutta under which Hospital Authorities in Calcutta and Howrah report to the Shipping Office the admission of any seaman unprovided with an admission order from the Master of his ship
File S&C 1521/1880 - Letter from the Director of the Zoological Museum in Florence, dated 25th December 1880, acknowledging receipt of a copy of Day's "Reports on Sea Fish and Fisheries" and "Freshwater Fish and Fisheries" for the Institute's library