File R 602/1880 - Correspondence reporting that the Santa Fe cinchona plants taken to India by Mr Biermann had all died, and urging Robert Cross to take the utmost care to ensure the safety of the remaining cinchona plants on the journey to India
File R 604/1880 - Correspondence regarding the collection of rules and circulars in force in the Bombay Presidency for transmission to the Secretary of State for India
File R 606/1880 - Reports on the operations of the Survey Department in the Bombay Presidency for 1878-79
Scope & Content:
Includes the General Annual Progress Report on the Surveys of the Bombay Presidency for the year ending 31st October 1879; and progress reports for the same period for the revenue surveys in Sind, Gujarat, Poona and Nasik, Ratnagiri, and Southern Mahratta Country
File R 609/1880 - Telegram from the Governor of Bombay, dated 3rd August 1880, requesting orders on the Government of Bombay's revenue despatch, No.9, 15th May 1880, on the subject of village officers in Sind
File R 610/1880 - Report on the wild silks of India by Thomas Wardle, for which the grand prix was awarded to the Viceroy of India at the Paris Exhibition, 1878
Scope & Content:
Also included is a letter from Thomas Wardle to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 30th July 1880; and a list of the best known species of wild silk worms in India