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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.
2466: Annual Report of the Calcutta Police Pauper Hospital and the Calcutta Police Constable Hospital for 1866, together with a copy of the Resolution and Orders of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal thereon
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.89 of 1867, dated 18 May 1867
2537: Precautionary measures adopted by the Government of Bengal to prevent the introduction into the Ports of the Bengal Presidency of the yellow fever prevailing at Mauritius
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.128 of 1867, dated 12 July 1867
776: Report by H B Riddell, Director General of the Post Office of India, on the subject of the transmission by post of letters on the public service without payment of postage (franking), with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Post Office letter received from India, No.3 of 1861, dated 30 January 1861
2850: Report by the Director General of the Post Office of India on the proposal made by the Post Master General of the United States to the Post Master General, Hong Kong, relative to the transmission of correspondence between China, India, and the United States by means of a line of United States Packets recently established between San Francisco, Yokohama and Hong Kong
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Separate Revenue/Post Office) letter received from India, No.4 of 1868, dated 27 January 1868; and a letter from A M Monteath, Director General of the Post Office of India, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Financial Department, date...
2938: Sanction by the Government of India of a further sum of 3,500 rupees on account of the purchase of a new supply of plated-ware for the Government House Establishment at Bombay
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of a copy of the Financial (Expenditure/Administration and Public Departments) letter received from India, No.288 of 1868, dated 28 October 1868
3086: Report on the Total Eclipse of the Sun as seen at Guntoor [Guntur], August 18th 1868, by Major J F Tennant, Superintending the Observations, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.183 of 1868, dated 19 December 1868. The report contains photographs of the eclipse, the equipment used and the Observatory team, and a plan of part of Guntur showing the position of the instruments.
4006: Papers on the subject of a grant of land held in British Burma by H A Mangles, Accountant General in that Province, the question of forbidding covenanted and military officers from holding land in the Province in which they are employed, and of Government servants abstaining from investments connected with their public duty, as well as from all speculative investments
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.40 of 1873, dated 16 June 1873; a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.48 of 1873, dated 14 July 1873; and a copy of the Despatch, No.99 of 1873, dated 26 August 1873.
