File R 417/1881 - Letter from Colonel G Pearson to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated Nancy 31st May 1881, and related minute paper, regarding a bill for service postage
File R 418/1881 - Government of India Foreign Department Despatch No.2 dated 8th May 1881, and related minute paper, regarding the Revenue Administration Report of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for 1879-80 and orders passed upon it
File R 419/1881 - Results of the examination and analysis of Malwa opium for export to China
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a letter, dated 26th March 1881, from Major J W Sheppard, Principal Assistant, Behar Opium Agent, reporting the results of the examination and analysis of three samples of Malwa opium as prepared for export to China
File R 421/1881 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India, from Jenkin & Phillips, Drug Brokers, dated 2nd June 1881, regarding 400 bales of cinchona bark shipped from Calcutta per ship Eldorado and expected to arrive in London
File R 424/1881 - Acknowledgment of Mr James Caird, English member of the Indian Famine Commission, of the approval of the Government of India of the manner in which the duties of the Famine Commission were performed
File R 425/1881 - Letter of Colonel George Pearson and related minutes papers regarding the settlement of tour expenses of students studying at the School of Forestry at Nancy
File R 426/1881 - Request of Mr Thiselton Dyer for the office at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to be supplied with reports on cinchona plantations in the Madras Presidency
File R 427/1881 - Letter from Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, dated 7th June 1881, to the Secretary of State for India, regarding a catalogue of 600 bales of cinchona bark for public sale, received per ship City of Carthage