File S&C 14/1881 - Correspondence on a proposed international conference at Washington to discuss the sanitary condition of ports likely to be infected with cholera or yellow fever
File S&C 16/1881 - Draft letter to agents regarding the sale price of volume 3 of the Rajputana Gazetteer
Scope & Content:
Includes a letter from the Royal Geographical Society, dated 6th January 1881, acknowledging the present to it of a copy of volume 3 of the Rajputana Gazetteer
File S&C 19/1881 - Letter from Leopold Videcoq enquiring as to whether a prize had been awarded by the Government of India for a machine for preparing rhea fibre
File S&C 21/1881 - Appointment of Dr Birdwood as Visitor to the India Museum for the purpose of keeping the Secretary of State for India informed as to the condition of the Museum, and as a channel of communication between the Museum and the India Office
File S&C 23/1881 - Letter from the Colonial Office acknowledging receipt of the works on irrigation transmitted for the use of the Public Works Department in Cyprus
File S&C 24/1881 - Request by John H Bell for copies of the printed notification concerning the rhea prize competition issued by the Government of India in 1877, and for a few pieces of dry rhea stems