File R 481/1881 - Account of the sale of 600 bales of East India cinchona bark received per ship City of Carthage, accompanied with a catalogue for the public sale on 8th June 1881, by Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, of 884 packages of cinchona bark, grown in the Botanical Gardens at Mungpoo, Calcutta
File R 482/1881 - Correspondence and related papers regarding the training in France of English students for the Forest Department in India
Scope & Content:
File includes memorandum by Mr D Brandis, Inspector General of Forests, dated Dehra Dun, the 20th April 1881, regarding the professional education in France of English students for the Forest Department in India, and memoranda by Colonel G Pearson on the possibility of educating forest students i...
File R 485/1881 - Reports of Mr Robert Cross on the cinchona (chinchona) plantations on the Nilgiris and American Indian rubber plants at Nilambur, with related correspondence
File R 486/1881 - Covering letter, dated 25th June 1881, transmitting from Her Majesty’s Customs, 22 copies of Supplement No.60 to the List of Works, in respect of which notice had been given on the subsistence of copyright
File R 489/1881 - Papers regarding the effect of a late increase of salt duty on local consumption in Madras and Bombay and the hope of considering a possible further reduction in the salt tax
Scope & Content:
File includes a statistical report from the Commissioner of Salt Revenue, Madras, dated 18th January 1881, regarding salt prices and salt consumption
File R 490/1881 - Government of India paper No.128 of 1881 (dated Simla, 3rd June 1881), with related minute paper, regarding a suggestion that Mr M H Clifford, a trained Forest Officer at Nancy expected to come out to India in December 1881, should remain in Europe for one year to study entomology
File R 492/1881 - Remarks by Mr John Eliot Howard, FRS, of Lord’s Meade, Tottenham, on reports relating to trials of cinchona febrifuge and other preparations in India
File R 494/1881 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India from Jenkin & Phillips, Drug Brokers, dated 2nd July 1881, regarding the transmission of a catalogue regarding 888 bales of cinchona bark