File R 519/1880 - Request from the South Kensington Museum, Science and Art Department, for a coloured drawing of Major Coussmaker's tasar plantation, and for duplicate cards of the Indian Dyes prepared by J Wardle to be sent for exhibition
File R 520/1880 - Correspondence regarding the arrangements that it was proposed to make for the future conduct of the duties performed by the office of the Survey and Settlement Commissioner in Bombay on the retirement of Colonel W C Anderson
File R 522/1880 - Letters from the India Office to the Government of India, and to Thomas Wardle, regarding the Eria silk resources of Bengal and Assam
File R 524/1880 - Papers regarding the steps taken and the progress made towards completing arrangements with the Native States of Kathiawar and Cutch, with reference to salt manufacture, with a view to the abolition of the Northern Salt Preventive Line
Scope & Content:
Includes a colour map: Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, Index Chart of the Kattywar [Kathiawar] Topographical Survey, December 1878 (scale: 1 inch = 24 miles)
File R 525/1880 - Papers regarding the decline in the consumption in the City of Bombay during the year 1878-79 of the Mowra liquor manufactured at Uran, and the consequent decrease in the abkari revenue