791: Papers regarding the proposed alteration in the arrangements of the Overland Mail Service
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the following Post Office letters received from India: No.2 of 1861, dated 14 January 1861 Post Office letter from the Government of India to H Merivale, Under Secretary of State for India, No.1 of 1861, dated 8 February 1861 The correspondence also includes l...
859: Collection to Public Despatch, No.77 of 1861, dated 29 June 1861
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: (Coll 1) Annual Report of the Geological Survey of India and of the Museum of Geology, Fourth Year, 1859-60 (Calcutta: 1860). Includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.5 of 1861, dated 9th January 1861. (Coll 2) Public letter from...
874: Correspondence regarding the introduction of the Cinchona plant into India from Java
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.25 of 1861, dated 26 April 1861. Also includes a report by D MacPherson, Inspector General of Hospitals, on Special Duty at Ootacamund, on his visit to the Nilgiri Hills to inspect the sites selected for an experimenta...
1332: Collection to Public Despatch, No.3 of 1863, dated 16 January 1863
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: Correspondence relating to a case in which some labourers when on their way to the Mauritius Emigration Depot were intercepted by a person in the employment of the Agents for Emigration to Bourbon, and were fraudulently conveyed to the Depot for tha...
1394: Collection to Public Despatch, No.29 of 1863, dated 30 March 1863
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: Proceedings regarding the provision, at the expense of Government, of a suitable building for the residence of the Lieutenant Governor of the North Western Provinces Correspondence on the subject of the mortality on board the Emigrant ships Scoresby...
2264: Papers regarding the famine in Orissa and the Lower Provinces of Bengal
Scope & Content:
Contained within the papers are: Narratives (Nos 15 to 19) of the Proceedings of the Board of Revenue and the several Local Officers and Committees for the relief of distress arising from the scarcity of food in Orissa and in other parts of Bengal Weekly Narratives (Nos 13 to 18) of the Governm...