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Lieutenant-Colonel Kyd's proposal for keeping meteorological registers at different stations to examine the physical effects of climate
Scope & Content:
pp 347-49 Suggests that Collectors in the provinces keep a regular meteorological register to provide the administration with information by which to examine the physical effects of the climate. p 354. Encloses a draft scheme for the register, submitted as "an outline for correction".
Results of the experiments for testing Professor Pettenkofer's theory regarding the origin and propagation of cholera
Scope & Content:
pp 429-52. Correspondence and reports regarding the experiments, including tables showing the distance of level of sub-soil water from surface of ground, received from Mysore, Agra, Akola, Jessore, Berhampore, Moorshedabad, and Maldah.
The map tracing shows a sketch of the country between Zaida [Za’idah] and Aden. It was traced to show the location of the Huswah [Al-Huswah, written as Haswah on the map] opposite Steamer Point on the other side of Aden Harbour. The map indicates place names, roads, forts, topography and stylis...