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Project / Collection India Office Records Name Royal Geographical Society, 1830- Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/135
Title:
File 758/1908 'Arabia: Travellers - Mr G W Bury'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the movements of the explorer and naturalist, George Wyman Bury. The majority of the correspondence is between Bury himself, the India Office, the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and the Political Residency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1915
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/122
Title:
PZ 7769/1934 'Supply of maps to the political resident in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes, supply notes, and an air consignment note, relating to the supply of maps to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It includes correspondence between Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and John Gilbert Laithwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1934-9 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/6/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27
Title:
File XXIII/1 British Consulate Muscat, Travels in Oman, 1894-1900
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed journey from Muscat across southern Arabia to Hadhramaut in Yemen by the explorer, James Theodore Bent. The correspondence focuses on Bent's request for an Indian surveyor in the employ of the Government of India to accompany him on the tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1894-25 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

4. IOR/X/12049

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12049
Title:
[Composite map from the International Map of the World at 1:1,000,000 comprising parts of: I.37 Damascus, I.38 Baghdad, and I.39 Tehran] GSGS 2555
Scope & Content:
A composite topographical map composed of at least three sheets glued together to cover a contiguous area from present-day Syria and eastern Turkey to Iran, and northern Iraq to Georgia. Manuscript additions in black ink indicate 'suggested new Southern boundary of Kurdistan', 'Western Frontier, ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 sheet

5. IOR/X/12166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12166
Title:
Persia and the adjacent countries, Map and Index, 1892
Scope & Content:
'Map of Persia with a Memorandum and Index.' by George Curzon, MP. Appendices list maps used directly or referred to in the compilation of the map. The index of place names includes map grid references. The map is titled 'Persia, Afghanistan & Beluchistan'. A small glossary of 'Signification...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1892
Extent:
1 volume memorandum and index (46 pages) with 1 folded map

6. IOR/X/12188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12188
Title:
Lists compiled by the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use
Scope & Content:
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, published on their behalf by the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London, S.W.7.:First General List of Names in the Empire of India, May 1924 Second General list of European Names, January 1923 Second General list of ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1924
Extent:
6 pamphlets (16 or fewer pages), 16 slips of torn paper

7. IOR/X/12189

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/12189
Title:
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use - Lists
Scope & Content:
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, published on their behalf by the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London, S.W.7.: First List of Names in 'Iraq (Mesopotamia), August 1922First General List of Oceanic Names, May 1922First List of Names in Tanganyika ...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1922
Extent:
6 pamphlets (each 16 or fewer pages)

8. IOR/X/14750

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/14750
Title:
Photocopies of a map of Quetta and Environs
Scope & Content:
Two overlapping photocopies of a map of Quetta and Environs with a note on a compliment slip from the Map Room, Royal Geographical Society. Each photocopy has a stamp 'Reproduced from documents in the Royal Geographical Society' on verso. There is no production information from the original map o...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1980
Extent:
2 sheets and 1 compliment slip