File R 143/1880 - Draft copy of a letter from Edward Stanhope, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office, dated 18th February 1880, regarding the selection of W R Thompson, Deputy Conservator of Forests in the Central Provinces, for deputation to Mauritius
File R 144/1880 - Quarterly statement of despatches from the Secretary of State remaining unanswered in the Revenue Department on the 31st December 1879
File R 145/1880 - Minute paper listing British Burma Proceedings for July, August and September 1879 which were regarded as being of particular interest
File R 146/1880 - Correspondence regarding the calisaya bark grown at Sikkim
Scope & Content:
The correspondence includes an account by Dr George King, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, of his visit to Java to investigate the conditions of growth of cinchona calisaya at the Dutch cinchona plantations
File R 148/1880 - Papers regarding the transmission to the India Office, for the London market, of 728 bales of cinchona bark from the Government plantations on the Nilgiris per Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Hydaspes, which left Madras on the 6th January 1880