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Subject Geology Digitised Content Platform Qatar Digital Library Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/54
Title:
Geology of Mesopotamia and its Borderlands. London: Intelligence Div, Admiralty Naval Staff, May 1918
Scope & Content:
A printed volume regarding the geology of Mesopotamia and the surrounding region. The volume was prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and printed by the Admiralty Naval Staff, Intelligence Department. The volume contains five maps and nine diagrams. The volume is divided up into the following ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/C32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C32
Title:
Report on the North-Eastern Frontier of Persia and the Tekeh Turkomans
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is a report authored by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, dated 4 July 1881. Its purpose being to convey the results of his intelligence gathering mission to the North-Eastern Frontier of Persia. The report largely consists of a narrative detailing St...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jul 1881
Extent:
25 folios

3. IOR/R/15/1/398

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/398
Title:
File 35/64 Mineral deposits in Dhofar
Scope & Content:
The file contains two items. The first is 'A note on the Dhufar Province, Southern Arabia' by Gordon Noel Jackson dated 23rd June, 1943, Kuwait. This typed note is 8 pages and has sections on topography; climate; people; economy and finance; agriculture; administration; airport; security; of sci...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 volume (54 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/160
Title:
File 2/8 Kuwait water supply from Shatt al-`Arab
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the supply of water to Kuwait from the Shatt-al-Arab estuary which lies within the territory of Iraq. The papers contain incidents relating to the payment of customs duties, the customary drawing of water from populations surrounding the estuary, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1932-17 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (232)

5. IOR/R/15/6/439

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/439
Title:
File 14/5 Mineral deposits in Dhufar
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the search for and potential development of mineral deposits in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. Correspondence in the file includes the discussion of the following issues: The availability of reports...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1940-17 Dec 1948
Extent:
1 file (202 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/6/440

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/440
Title:
File 14/6 EXPLOITATION IN MUSCAT TERRITORY BY GEOLOGISTS
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence on two matters in 1937 and 1940 respectively: Correspondence (includes copy of original letter in Arabic, folio 3) in 1937 concerns a complaint from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman about the arrival in Buraimi of a relative (Sultan bin Zaid) of the Shaikh of Abu D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 May 1937-9 Aug 1940
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

7. IOR/X/10309

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/10309
Title:
‘Persian Gulf single charts.–Memoir.–Lieut. Houghton’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a ‘memoir’ written by Lieutenant Michael Houghton, draughtsman on board the Honorable Company’s ship Discovery, which consists of a description of places encountered during the East India Company’s survey of the Persian Gulf during the 1820s. The memoir covers the survey’s jo...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1822
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)