File R 262/1881 - Letter of request by drug brokers Jenkin & Phillips, for the Madras authorities to send the Policy of Marine Insurance for £30,000, which they effected through Messrs. Arbuthnot Latham & Co. for 1465 bales of cinchona bark, shipped by ss. Eldorado
File R 264/1881 - Documents relating to anamallay [Anaimalai] teak timber forwarded to Charles G Douglas to enable him to complete his report on a visit to Chatham Dockyard
File R 268/1881 - Consumption of Opium in British Burma
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of a Memorandum by C U Aitchison, Chief Commissioner of British Burma, addressed to the Government of India 1880, on the consumption of opium in Burma (accompanied with other papers on measures to discourage the consumption of opium in Burma)
File R 270/1881 - Proposed separation of the Revenue paid Agricultural Departments from the Home Office, and the appointment of an additional secretary
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of printed letter No.19 dated 14th March 1881 conveying the views and recommendations of the Government of India on the proposals of the Famine Commission contained in certain paragraphs of the second part of their Report for the institution of an Agricultural Department in I...
File R 271/1881 - Report of the Indian Famine Commission, Part 1, Famine Relief (London 1880)
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Report of the Indian Famine Commission, Part 1, Famine Relief (London 1880) and correspondence with the Government of India on subjects treated in the Report [Maps, scale 128 miles to 1 inch and dated 1879, enclosed in the Report of the Indian Famine Commission, Part 1...
File R 272/1881 - Application for six copies of Monsieur P Demonstzey’s work entitled Etude sur les travaux de Reboisement et de Gazonnement des Montagnes