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1. IOR/L/PJ/1/95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/1/95
Title:
Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee Papers
Scope & Content:
Papers re introduction of quinine-yielding cinchona into India, 1836-1859; bound with papers re Madras Observatory, 1855 and Madras School of Art, 1854
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1859
Extent:
1 volume

2. IOR/L/PJ/3/1068 no 63 coll 15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1068 no 63 coll 15
Title:
The medical uses of berberry
Scope & Content:
Copy W S Stiven, Civil Assistant Surgeon at Moradabad, Report on the medical uses of berberry and its preparations (Agra: Secundra Orphan Press;1856). Comprising: Comments thereon by Dr J Grant, Superintending Surgeon at Agra Circule, dated 26 Nov 1855. Memorandum on Dr Stiven's Report... by Joh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 file

3. IOR/L/PJ/3/1073 no 4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1073 no 4
Title:
291: Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
Scope & Content:
Correspondence showing the result of the measures taken by the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, since the augmentation of the Government grant, for the importation and distribution of agricultural seeds, and for the education of a class of native gardeners; with a table of content...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1859
Extent:
1 file

4. IOR/L/PJ/3/1084 no 135 coll 22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1084 no 135 coll 22
Title:
Report on the Saharanpur Botanic Garden for 1858
Scope & Content:
Cover page. Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of the North Western Provinces, General Department, for the 4th Quarter of 1859, dated 21st June 1860. [pp 3-41] Report on the workings of the Botanical Gardens of the North Western Provin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1858-1860
Extent:
1 file

5. IOR/L/PJ/3/1090 No.63

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1090 No.63
Title:
1488: Correspondence regarding the discovery of the presence of febrifuge properties in an infusion of the leaves of Cinchona Succirubra
Scope & Content:
Specimens of tincture made from cinchona leaves chemically tested, T Anderson 1863. The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.34 of 1863, dated 11 June 1863.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1863-Jun 1863
Extent:
1 file

6. IOR/L/PJ/3/1094 No.86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1094 No.86
Title:
1989: Collection to Public Despatch, No.86 of 1865, dated 8 December 1865
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: Report on the state of the Districts of the Jhansi Division with regard to the possible occurrence of famine Reports on the state of the Ajmere and Mhairwarra [Ajmer-Merwara] Districts, and the Districts of the Rohilkhand Division with regard to the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1864-Jun 1865
Extent:
1 file

7. IOR/L/PJ/3/1094 No.86 no 50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1094 No.86 no 50
Title:
Calcutta Botanic Garden: cyclone damage
Scope & Content:
Report by Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, on the damage sustained by the Garden in the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Includes lists of trees uprooted.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865
Extent:
17 folios

8. IOR/L/PJ/3/1346 no 3 coll 19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1346 no 3 coll 19
Title:
Ootacamund Botanic and Horticultural Gardens
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. Extract from Public letter from Fort St George, No.1 of 1858, dated 8th January 1858, regarding the income of the Ootacamund Horticultural Garden, and placing the Garden under the charge of Dr Cleghorn. Extract from Public letter to Fort St George, No.55 of 1854, dated 15t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1858
Extent:
1 file

9. IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 2
Title:
Cinchona: patent for mossing
Scope & Content:
Proposal by Government of Madras to withdraw the patent already granted to William McIvor, Superintendent of Cinchona plantations, for mossing the cinchona tree, because grant will prevent the State from cultivating cinchona for the general benefit and will keep the price of quinine artificially ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 file

10. IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/3/1356 no 3
Title:
Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills
Scope & Content:
Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills for April, May, June, July, August and September. Include lists of people and locations where plants distributed; memo by William McIvor dated 22 June 1866, 'Observations on the germination and growth of seeds of the medicinal chinchona...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
1 file