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32. 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)
33. 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
34. 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)
35. 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)
36. 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)
37. 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)
38. 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)
39. P.P.1931.k, 1(37)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- P.P.1931.k, 1(37)
- Title:
- Remarkable block of double-refracting spar. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Scientific Photography Stereoscopic view: 'We are enabled, by the kindness of Professor Tennant, to present our readers with a stereograph of a very remarkable specimen of Double-refracting Calcareous Spar, which has lately been imported from Iceland.' A label reading 'Stereoscopic Magaz...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item
40. P.P.1931.k, 1(49)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- P.P.1931.k, 1(49)
- Title:
- Interior of the Museum of Practical Geology. Photographer: Unknown
- Scope & Content:
- Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view of the domed interior of the Geological Museum, opened in May 1851, with text description, pp. 49-52. The museum is now the Earth Galleries of the Natural History Museum. Published in part no. 3, September 1858.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- c 1858
- Extent:
- 1 item