File R 756/1880 - Payment of the bill for a consignment of mahogany seed which had been sent to the Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta
File R 757/1880 - Reports by Thomas Wardle on the wild silks and dyestuffs of India
Scope & Content:
Includes a manuscript copy of "Handbook of the Collection illustrative of the Wild Silks of India" South Kensington Museum, India Section (without index, illustrations or catalogue of specimens in the collection) by Thomas Wardle; and a printed copy of The Wild Silks of India, Principally Tusser ...
File R 758/1880 - Letter from the Britannia Iron Works, Bedford, to the India Office, dated 13th September 1880, on the subject of the manufacture of ploughs for India
File R 760/1880 - Correspondence regarding the transmission to India of copies of the report by Dr Aitchison on the collections made by him illustrating the vegetation of the Kuram Valley
File R 761/1880 - Papers regarding correspondence with Dadabhai Naoroji on the subject of statistical information regarding the agricultural, mining, and manufacturing produce of India
Scope & Content:
Includes a memorandum by F C Danvers, Revenue Department, dated 4th January 1879, on the subject of the gross value of the agricultural produce of India
File R 762/1880 - Correspondence regarding a supply of seeds of the Brosimum Galactodendron or cow tree for transmission to the Superintendent of Victoria Gardens, Bombay
File R 766/1880 - Memorial by Chittoor Butchiah, formerly a Shroff in the Taluk Treasury at Kandukur in the Nellore District, appealing against his removal from the service by the Sub-Collector of the District
File R 767/1880 - List of the despatches received by the Government of Bombay from the India Office, which remained unanswered at the end of the second quarter of 1880
File R 770/1880 - Draft Despatch, No.81 of 1880, from the India Office to the Governor General of India in Council, dated 30th September 1880, regarding the termination of the Indian Famine Commission