Memorandum by the Controller of Steam Vessels [[Captain James H Johnston] on trials made on 13 Mar 1840 on board the Jumna, of specimens of Chapra and Palamau coal and of Palamau anthracite - he is ordered to carry out further experiments
Jamsetjee JeeJeebhoy [given as Jamsetji Jijibhoy] informs the Bombay Government that he has paid into the General Treasury his donation of one lakh of rupees towards the establishment of a medical college, general hospital and dispensary at Bombay.
Success of the dromedary dak established for the conveyance of English mails across the Syrian desert - inconvenience caued by the detention of the mails at Baghdad and Basra
Further papers regarding the treatment of eye disease in the Bombay Presidency
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Further papers regarding the treatment of eye disease in the Bombay Presidency - instructions given by the Bombay Medical Board to the Itinerant Oculist [Matthew Stovell] (includes returns of patients treated by the Oculist in the latter half of 1839).