File S&C 857/1880 - Request of the Liverpool Salvage Association in salvaging the steamer Duke of Lancaster that had run ashore at Jubal Zooghur
Scope & Content:
File includes a press cutting on the loss of the steamer Duke of Lancaster and a copy of correspondence arising from the case of the wreck of the steamship Penguin in the Red Sea, together with an extract of a letter from the Salvage Association, dated 27th February 1880
File S&C 909/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding an instruction on the flags to be used by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay
Scope & Content:
The instruction on the flags to be used by the Trustees of the Port of Bombay is not included in the file
File S&C 931/1880 - Despatch from the Chief Commissioner, British Burma Revenue Department, to the India Office, of copies of the British Burma Lighthouse Report for 1879/80, the Lock Hospital Report for 1879, the British Burma Police Report for 1879, and Volume II of the British Burma Gazetteer
Scope & Content:
The reports and gazetteer are not present in the file
File S&C 970/1880 - Submission to the India Office, by Major H G Raverty, Bombay Army (retired), of Part Two of the Third Section of his “Notes on Afghanistan”
Scope & Content:
The Notes on Afghanistan are not present in the file
File S&C 1031/1880 - Application of Mr B F Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square, London, to consult the early records of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a publication, consisting of 7 pages, entitled The Platform of the Hercules Club and Prospectus of its Publications (printed by Charles Whittingham for the Hercules Club, 1877)
File S&C 1050/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade forwarding for transmission a copy of the Report of the Formal Investigation into the supposed loss of the sailing ship Essex with a cargo of rice, and calling attention to the improper storage of the cargo, the extreme hast with which these vessels are sometimes laden, and the nature of the ventilation
Scope & Content:
The Report of the Formal Investigation is not present in the file
File S&C 1115/1880 - Papers relating to discussions at the Egyptian Board of Health as to measures to be adopted for giving effect in Egypt to recently passed Turkish pilgrim traffic rules
Scope & Content:
File includes a report by Dr J Mackie on Turkish Traffic Pilgrim Rules, dated 2nd August 1880 (Alexandria)
File S&C 1188/1880 - Request for sanction for the distribution of copies of Volumes 7 and 8 of the work People of India, received from the later Director of the India Museum, Dr Forbes Watson, and also the remaining copies of Volumes 1 to 6 of the work which remain in stock
Scope & Content:
File includes a list showing the manner in which copies of Volumes 1 to 8 of the work People of India has been distributed
File S&C 1254/1880 - Letter to the India Office, from Mr A Derinck of Lille, forwarding a small sample of an unknown vegetable fibre for identification
Scope & Content:
The vegetable fibre sample is not present in the file