Employment of Captain Robert Shortreed of the Bombay Native Infantry to assist Professor A B Orlebar in putting up a large transit instrument at the Bombay Observatory
Bombay Government expend the sum of 1100 rupees in purchasing 25 copies of the 'Alif Laila' ('Arabian Nights Entertainments')in the original Arabic and 20 copies of its translation into English by H W Torrens
Bombay Government purchase, at a cost of 1000 rupees, 50 copies of a Persian work published at Calcutta entitled 'Sharaya-ul-Islam' - the work relates to the application of Muhammadan law to the Sunat sect of Muslims
Papers regarding the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India - complaint of the Surveyor General of India [Lieut Colonel George Everest] regarding the inadequate resources at his disposal - the triangulation of the Ganges-Jumna Doab and Rohilkhand still to be completed etc (includes lists of Survey...
Further proceedings regarding the progress of the Great Trigonometrical Survey - questions regarding the remaining operations required for the completion of the Survey, etc