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1. IOR/L/MAR/B/698A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/698A
Title:
Dartmouth: Journal
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of a journal (log book) of a voyage to Madras [Chennai] and Bengal in the East India Company ship Dartmouth, recorded by the Captain of the ship Thomas Beckford. The journal entries are dated 14 October 1710 to 17 August 1713. The inscriptions on folio 2 of the journal s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1710-18 Sep 1713
Extent:
1 volume (131 folios)

2. IOR/L/MAR/C/901

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/901
Title:
Miscellaneous Marine Papers
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of various documents mostly relating to East India Company shipping. The documents include the following: Correspondence relating to surviving passengers who had been on board the shipwrecked Dutch East India Company ship Woestduyn, and various receipts for related expens...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
c 1723-c 1810
Extent:
1 volume (368 folios)

3. IOR/P/186/79 27 Sep 1837 nos 24-28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/186/79 27 Sep 1837 nos 24-28
Title:
On the subject of Dr Stewart's proposed remodelling of the Vaccine Department, and the establishment of provincial dispensaries
Scope & Content:
No. 24. Bengal Medical Board to the Governor General in Council, regarding the remodelling of the Vaccine Department and forwarding letter from the Superintendent General of Vaccination in Bengal. Includes communication from the Superintending Surgeon at Benares regarding the artificial dissemin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1837-Sep 1837
Extent:
19 pages

4. IOR/P/186/95 16 Dec 1840 nos 19-20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/186/95 16 Dec 1840 nos 19-20
Title:
Reports from various superintendents of vaccination in the hill districts of Bengal concerning the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine
Scope & Content:
No. 19. Communication from the Bengal Medical Board to the Government of India, requesting that they be sent lymph and crusts taken from children vaccinated with fresh lymph from England during the months October - December. Enclosing the following reports on vaccination: Dr Stewart, Superintend...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1840
Extent:

8 pages

5. IOR/X/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/376
Title:
A companion atlas to those published by Major James Rennell in 1779 and 1781, containing reprints of existing maps made by Rennell not published in his atlases nor in the Surveyor General's reprint (1910) of the 1781 atlas, illustrated by a memoir by F.C. Hirst and F.D. Ascoli, describing all the extant remains of Major Rennell's Surveys.
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Bengal, Government Press, 1914. The text accompanying this atlas was published as: A Memoir upon the maps of Bengal constructed from 1764 onward by Major James Rennell. Calcutta, Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1914 (catalogued separately)
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 volume

6. IOR/X/431

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/431
Title:
'Survey of Hooringottah and Mudomuty Rivers. No title. Surveyed in the years 1768 and 1769 by John Ritchie.' - India Office map catalogue.
Scope & Content:
Covers the Hooringottah and Mudomuty rivers in Bengal, India. Portrays hydrology including tidal sands and soundings, generalised vegetation, settlements and place names, and includes topographical notes, one of which refers to an expedition of 1773.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1773?
Extent:

1 map sheet

7. IOR/X/432/1-5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/432/1-5
Title:
Mutlah River in the vicinity of Canning
Scope & Content:
Maps, plans and cross-sections relating to a 5-mile stretch of the River Mutlah at Canning in Bengal, north-east India in connection with the proposed construction of Port Canning. Sheets portray hydrology including sands and soundings, river banks including details of slippage and sites requiri...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866?
Extent:

5 map sheets

8. IOR/X/12005

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12005
Title:
Map of Proposed Extensions of The Bengal Central Railway, to illustrate the proposal contained in the Bengal Central Railway Board letter No. 828B dated 3rd November 1886
Scope & Content:
A composite of four 'Indian Atlas' map sheets dissected and pasted together, with manuscript additions showing existing and proposed railway routes. A slip providing map title and references in manuscript is pasted in the upper left corner of the map.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866-1886
Extent:
1 sheet

9. IOR/X/12086

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12086
Title:
'Bengal and Assam' O.R. 5682
Scope & Content:
O.R. outline map 5682 covering present-day Bangladesh, with parts of Myanmar and other adjacent countries, produced by Geographical Section, General Staff, (W.O.) 1942.
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
1 sheet

10. IOR/X/12087

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12087
Title:
'Bengal and Assam, India/Pakistan Boundaries as fixed by the Boundary Commission, 17 Aug 47' O.R. 5682
Scope & Content:
Fourteen copies of an outline map covering present-day Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar and other adjacent countries, with overprints in red ink showing two different sets of boundaries between India and Pakistan as fixed by the Boundary Commission 17 Aug 1947. Base map O.R. 5682 produced by Geogr...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1947
Extent:
14 sheets