Proceedings relating to Assam (Naga and Garo Tribes)
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[pp 135-172] Papers on the expedition to the Angami Hills by Captain John Butler, Principal Assistant Agent to the Governor General in charge of Nowgong, and J W Masters, Sub-Assistant Commissioner. The papers consist of the following: [pp 135-136] letter from Major F Jenkins, Agent to the Gov...
Minute by the Governor General of India [Marquess of Dalhousie], 29 May 1851, approving the establishment of an Agri-Horticultural Society at Lahore in the Punjab and the dedication of a public garden for the Society’s use, and approving a monthly donation of 200 rupees to further its aims, on c...
Botanical writings of George Gardner, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Ceylon
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Table of contents. [p 1] Extract from a Despatch, No.17, from the Government of India, Home Department, to the Court of Directors, dated 23 April 1850, regarding the Government of India's willingness to subscribe to Dr Gardner’s elementary work on botany. [pp 3-14] Extract from the Proceedin...
Table of Contents. [pp 1-4] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors in the Public Department (No.16 of 1850), dated 17th April 1850, regarding a proposal to establish an experimental garden at Darjeeling for the cultivation of certain medicinal pla...
Saharanpur Botanic Garden, including papers re tea cultivation
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[ff 1–19] extracts from Proceedings of the Revenue Department of the North Western Provinces between February and July 1851, mainly re discharge of an elderly Chinese tea manufacturer, Dawa Saw, at Pooree: free passage to Canton granted to him, and Ajeen, another tea manufacturer, permitted to a...
Table of Contents. [p 1] Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, No.49 of 1852, dated Fort William 17th September 1852, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, transmitting a copy of a communication received from the Government of the North Western Provinces, reporti...