File R 238/1881 - Request by Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the immediate services of an officer acquainted with the Bombay system of survey and settlement, to assist in the land survey of Egypt
File R 241/1881 - Letter from Mr Thisetton Dyer, Assistant Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, dated 31st March 1881, reporting that L J K Brace, Curator of the Herbarium of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, had arrived at Kew for his period of study on the management of a large herbarium
File R 242/1881 - Correspondence regarding the retention of the appointment of Colonel W C Anderson in the office of Survey and Settlement Commissioner, Bombay, for a further period of one month
File R 246/1881 - Proceedings regarding the alleged defective packing of Bengal opium in the Patna factory, and the report of the Committee appointed to enquire into the conditions most suitable for the packing and storage of provision opium
File R 247/1881 - Extract from the diary of the British Joint Commissioner, Ladakh, regarding the competition between Persian and Indian opium in Chinese Turkistan
File R 248/1881 - Papers on the cultivation of opium at Mozambique and on the Zambezi with a view to its export to China, and the failure of efforts made by the opium agent of Benares to re-introduce poppy cultivation in certain parganas of the Allahabad and Mirzapore districts
Scope & Content:
The file also includes the following papers: 'Note on Opium Revenue' a brief sketch of existing facts relating to the Indian opium revenue, of the different changes advocated by those who disapproved of the policy of the Indian Government with respect to it, and of the objections to those changes...
File R 249/1881 - Memorial from Colonel R H Sankey in connection with his removal from the charge of famine relief works in the Mysore Province in 1877