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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Locusts Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 531-539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/270, ff 531-539
Title:
The Turkish Expedition to Nejd
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a secret despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 41 of 1872, dated 24 June 1872. The enclosures are dated from 3 March to 5 June 1872, and concern affairs in Nejd [Najd] in relation to the Tur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1872
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/657
Title:
Ext 6705/41(1) 'Locusts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the organization of anti-locust controls in India, East Africa and the Middle East, especially Persia [Iran], where international conferences of locust experts were held. Support for scientific research and international cooperation between the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Oct 1941-28 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (530 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/658
Title:
Ext 6705/41(2) 'Locusts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams, drafts, extracts, and notes concerning efforts to control locust outbreaks in India, Iran, and parts of the Middle East. Included within the file: Monthly reports on locust outbreaks from the Political Agent, Muscat, sent to the Imperial Agricultural Resear...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1946-27 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3403

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3403
Title:
Coll 28/8 ‘Persia; Diaries; Sistan & Kain, April 1927 – 1933’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of monthly reports submitted by the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Clarmont Percival Skrine; Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly). The reports provide information on: the region’s trade; locust observations and movements (occasionally appearing as an appendix to the main rep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1927-25 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (213 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4760

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4760
Title:
Coll 54/4 'British Middle East Office Development Division Quarterly Reports'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of a report sent by the Foreign Office to Robert (William Doughty) Fowler of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), and a folio at the back of the file recording the receipt of the report by the CRO, with some CRO notes. The report is by the British Middle East Offic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1949-1 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/238
Title:
File 13/276 I & II (B 61 & 67) Locust Campaign Arab Side
Scope & Content:
This file consists of several telegrams and a letter relating to the proposal and planning of locust reconnaissance trips in southern Arabia, as part of a wider Middle East Supply Centre (MESC) effort to prevent food shortages caused by locust swarms in the region. The correspondence is between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1945-4 Jun 1945
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/379
Title:
File 22/16 II (A66) Gwadur
Scope & Content:
The file covers political, economic and general matters at Gwadar (which is referred to throughout as ‘Gwadur’). The file includes Annual Report of the British Agency, Gwadar for the year 1928, written by the British Agent, M Waris Ali, which includes sections on ancient history; area and popula...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1929-13 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (188 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/582
Title:
File 61/14 VI (D 50) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and reports relating to affairs between the British Mandate of Iraq and the Kingdom of Najd. The majority of the correspondence is between Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary (both in London), Henry Dobb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1928-29 Jul 1928
Extent:
1 volume (413 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/732

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/732
Title:
‘File 28/38 Troop movements’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, instructions and other papers relating to: troop numbers in Bahrain; troop movements through the Gulf into and out of Bahrain; military movements and military transportation in the wider region; Ministry of War Transport operations at Bahrain. Principal correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1942-24 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1542

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1542
Title:
‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, submitted by the Political Agency in Bahrain, at the request...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1933-2 Jan 1945
Extent:
1 file (304 folios)