File R 866/1880 - Letter from Alfred Forbes Brown, Indian Forest Department, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 19th October 1880, regarding his passage to India
File R 869/1880 - Correspondence regarding the retirement of J Ferguson as the officer in charge of the Nilambar Teak Plantation in Madras, and the question of the appointment of a successor from England or Scotland
File R 871/1880 - Papers regarding the passage tickets to India and Burma for Alfred Forbes Brown, Frederick Beadon Bryant and Thomas Addison Hauxwell, junior forest officers
Scope & Content:
Includes the Articles of Agreement for the three men
File R 872/1880 - Covering letter from W M Young, Secretary to Government, Punjab, dated 27th September 1880, forwarding two copies of the report on the progress and condition of the Agri-Horticultural Society's garden in the Punjab for the year 1879-80
File R 874/1880 - Draft despatch to the Governor General of India in Council, No.92 of 1880, dated 4th November 1880, informing him of the arrangements for the passages of A F Brown, F B Bryant, T A Hauxwell, and M S Fowler, junior forest officers
File R 875/1880 - Correspondence regarding the appointment of an Agricultural Instructor in the Poona College of Science, Bombay; and the establishment of a Central Forest School for the training of Native candidates as Forest Rangers
Scope & Content:
Includes an extract from a report by Dr Cleghorn on the six candidates for examination in January 1881 for the Forest Service in India: Harold Martin Reed, George Homfray, Hugh Murray, Herbert Slade, Henry Jackson Aylmer and Albert Wyndham Lushington. Also included is a letter from the India O...