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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1332/52707
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Scope & Content:: Details of sections The item contains a title page and the following elements: extract of letter to the Court of Directors from the Government, 8 Mar 1831 extract of letter to the Government from the Court of Directors, 29 Sep 1830 extract of letter to Parker from Sir C. T. Metcalfe, in charge ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1830-1831
Extent:: 9 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1478/58077
Title:: Board's Collection
Scope & Content:: A small establishment is set up to look after the teak forests of Tenasserim, superintend the felling of timber etc. - observations of Nathaniel Wallich on the forests of Martaban and Tenasserim (pp 8-13), etc. Jul.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1831-Apr 1834
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1546/61487
Title:: Proceedings connected with the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Calcutta
Scope & Content:: Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract of a General letter to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Revenue Department, dated 10th February 1834, regarding the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society. [pp 3-7] Extracts from the Proceedings of the Bengal Govern...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mar 1830-Feb 1834
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1635/65498
Title:: Papers relative to cotton experiments in the Bombay Presidency
Scope & Content:: [pp 1-2] Extract from Revenue letters from Bombay, dated 2nd March (No.5) 1836, regarding an Indian charka and foot roller used for cleaning cotton forwarded by the Bombay Government to London, and Egyptian cotton seed and an Egyptian machine for cleaning cotton to be sent to Bombay. [pp 3-4] ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Mar 1835-Apr 1836
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1667/66696
Title:: Cotton cultivation in Madras
Scope & Content:: Employment of Dr Robert Wight of the Madras Medical Service to collate and condense the information received from the various Collectors of the Madras Presidency regarding the cultivation of cotton, tobacco and other valuable crops. With table of contents.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Nov 1835-May 1836
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1709/69024
Title:: Board's Collection
Scope & Content:: Further papers regarding the promotion of tea cultivation in Upper Assam, Vol 2 (includes, after p 34, a printed copy of Dr William Griffith's report on the tea plant of Upper Assam, and, after p 36, MS coloured drawings of parts of the tea plant, also 3 maps, MS coloured 1) map showing distribut...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Sep 1837-Feb 1838
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1732/69955
Title:: The collection of seeds, bulbs and tuberous roots from the Himalayan range, and the interchange of botanical products between England and India
Scope & Content:: The collection contains the following papers: General Department letter, No.6 of 1838, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated Simla 16th August 1838, regarding an interchange between India and England of plants and vegetable productions indigenous in the one but rare or unk...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Jul 1838-Jan 1839
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1737/70400
Title:: Cultivation of cotton and senna
Scope & Content:: Circulars on the cultivation of cotton and senna are sent by Dr Robert Wight to the Collectors of the Madras Presidency (printed copies of the circulars, dated 15 Apr 1837 and 22 May 1837, are to be found on pp 7-23) - correspondence between Wight and the Madras Chamber of Commerce
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: May 1837-Nov 1837
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1754/71645
Title:: Hemp cultivation in India
Scope & Content:: Paper by Dr John Forbes Royle on the advantages and practicability of cultivating hemp [cannabis sativa] in India with a view to the supply of that article to meet the large demand existing in Great Britain: importance to British Naval and Merchant shipping of hemp in the manufacture of ropes an...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1839?
Extent:: 1 file

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/F/4/1755/71755
Title:: Employment of Robert Wight as agricultural researcher in Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:: 1837 correspondence between Government of Madras and Court of Directors of East India Company re Robert Wight’s continuing employment as agricultural researcher. Wight solicits financial help for illustrations for his book on useful plants [Figures of Indian Plants]; mentions his own purchase of...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Apr 1837-Aug 1838
Extent:: 1 file

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