File R 356/1881 - The search for gold deposits in the sand in the Malabar coast and a suggestion of Mr Francis Mason of 2 Burton Crescent, Russell Square, for the Government of India to investigate matters
File R 358/1881 - Minute papers listing Government of Madras Proceedings of November and December 1881 which were regarded as being of particular interest
File R 359/1881 - Papers, including a letter from London Drug Brokers Jenkin & Phillips to the Under Secretary of State for India, regarding a consignment of 490 bales of government cinchona bark which arrived from Madras per ship ss. Ancona
File R 360/1881 - Results of the Agricultural Show and Cattle Fair at Wadhwán, February 1881
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a letter from the Political Agent, Káthiáwár, No.75 giving cover to a report by Major H L Nutt, President of Wadhwán Agricultural Show, on the results of the Agricultural Show and Cattle Fair held at Wadhwán on the 10th, 11th and 12th February 1881
File R 361/1881 - Papers regarding the proposed deputation of an officer of the Forest Department of India to visit the Crown Forests of Ceylon, and advise the Colonial Government as to their future management
Scope & Content:
File includes Government of India letters relating to a separate application from the Ceylon Government applying for the services of an officer of the Forest Department in India
File R 362/1881 - Responses to a complaint of Messrs. Howard, Britannia Iron Works, Bedford, regarding the construction of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm
Scope & Content:
File includes printed letters showing that the manufacture and sale of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm is ‘merely experimental’
File R 363/1881 - Request to be furnished with a copy of the report of the War Office Committee appointed in 1872 to investigate the causes of the gun cotton explosion at Stow Market
File R 365/1881 - Covering letter from the officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of Bengal, forwarding, with a list, three copies of rules having the force of law, issued in the Lower Provinces of Bengal during the month of March 1881