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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme 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. Mss Eur F126/64

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/64
Title:
Papers relating to Pelly's expedition to Riyadh, including a draft of a talk given by him to the Royal Geographical Society
Scope & Content:
The papers relate primarily to the Royal Geographical Society who published Pelly's account of his journey to Riyadh and invited him to submit a talk to be read on his behalf at a Society event. There is also correspondence relating to the botanical specimens collected during the expedition an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:

1 file, 7 items (12 folios)

5. Mss Eur F126/67

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/67
Title:
Material concerning Papers presented to Meetings of the Royal Geographical Society by Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Material includes extracts from a letter by Pelly regarding questions relative to the interior of Arabia discussed by the Royal Geographical Society 22 February and 14 March 1864 and the published copy of Pelly's full report of his visit to Lingah, Kishm [Qeshm] and Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas], ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb-Jun 1864
Extent:

1 file, 3 items (10 folios)