A committee appointed, consisting of Captain Foster, Surgeon A Graham and Lt Gaisford, to ascertain whether a botanical garden might advantageously be established at Ahmadnagar in which coffee, tea and other exotics might be grown
Regarding potatoes grown in the garden under Dr Alexander Gibson; requesting the Society to cause a quantity of the best Nilgiri seed potatoes to be purchased and sent to Dr Gibson; quarterly account of the establishment and contingent charges of the botanic garden
Memorandum by Dr Heddle on the cultivation of the tapioca plant and preparation of flour from it; to be published in English and the native languages and distributed with cuttings of the plant
Letter relaying Dr Gibson's trials of Sarsaparilla
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Document No. 5531: Letter dated 19 October 1847 from J. Scott, Secretary of the Medical Board, Bombay, to the Governor in Council informing him of the result of trials of Sarsaparilla [bramble] grown in India supplied by Surgeon Gibson and contrasting it with that grown in England. References R...