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111. IOR/P/241/15 23 Oct 1789 pp 2969-93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/15 23 Oct 1789 pp 2969-93
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens; cochineal insects
Scope & Content:
(2969-73) Letter from James Anderson to Government of Madras, 20 Oct 1789, quoting Hugh Hunter’s account of cochineal insects transported from Barbados to Bristol in 1760 by being attached to living plants. Requests that Court of Directors in London be informed of this method of transportation. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Oct 1789
Extent:
1 file

112. IOR/P/241/15 24 Nov 1789 pp 3251-59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/15 24 Nov 1789 pp 3251-59
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens
Scope & Content:
(3251-54) Letter from James Anderson to Government of Madras, 24 Nov 1789, describing his experiments on nests of red insects found in various trees; when thrown on hot oil, the nests turn the oil into a waxy substance: potential for practical use. (3254-59) Letter from James Anderson to Andrew ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1789
Extent:
1 file

113. IOR/P/241/15 29 Dec 1789 pp 3540-47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/15 29 Dec 1789 pp 3540-47
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens
Scope & Content:
Reports on the Nopalry Gardens
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1789
Extent:
1 file

114. IOR/P/241/20 14 Sep 1790 pp 2334-47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/20 14 Sep 1790 pp 2334-47
Title:
Papers from Dr William Roxburgh regarding a new species of Nerium Indigo
Scope & Content:
Madras Public Consultations, 14 September 1790: [pp 2334-2336] Letter from Dr William Roxburgh to Major General Medows, dated 10th July 1790, transmitting papers containing a description and drawing of a tree, the leaves of which yields a very beautiful indigo, for forwarding along with a samp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1790-Jul 1790
Extent:
1 file

115. IOR/P/241/21 20 Dec 1790 pp 3294-98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/21 20 Dec 1790 pp 3294-98
Title:
Samulcotta Botanic Gardens
Scope & Content:
Letter from William Roxburgh, Samulcotta Garden, to Governor and Council at Fort St George [Madras], 8 Dec 1790, read at Council meeting of 20 Dec, announcing intention to send bread-fruit plants to Madras for onward despatch to Court of Directors in London, together with plants and seeds for Ke...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1790
Extent:

4 folios

116. IOR/P/241/27 2 Dec 1791 pp 3185-90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/27 2 Dec 1791 pp 3185-90
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens
Scope & Content:
Reports on the Nopalry Gardens
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1791
Extent:
1 file

117. IOR/P/241/27 20 Dec 1791 pp 3371-402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/27 20 Dec 1791 pp 3371-402
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens
Scope & Content:
Reports on the Nopalry Gardens
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1791
Extent:
1 file

118. IOR/P/241/31 13 Mar 1792 pp 744-46

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/31 13 Mar 1792 pp 744-46
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Dr James Anderson requests two kinds of bread fruit tree from Sumatra
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1792
Extent:
1 file

119. IOR/P/241/31 17 Feb 1792 pp 597-99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/31 17 Feb 1792 pp 597-99
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Dr James Anderson requests trees from China for the Nopalry to be delivered to Dr Andrew Berry
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1792
Extent:
1 file

120. IOR/P/241/36 25 Jan 1793 pp 331-34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/241/36 25 Jan 1793 pp 331-34
Title:
Madras Public Proceedings
Scope & Content:
Roxburgh provides plants, fever bark and hemp to be sent to England
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1793
Extent:
1 file