File R 647/1880 - Correspondence regarding a letter from a tea planter to the Calcutta Englishman complaining of the actions of the Chief Commissioner in Assam in granting licenses for the sale of spirits in the province
File R 651/1880 - Papers regarding the prevention of famines and improved agriculture in India
Scope & Content:
Includes a pamphlet titled The Famine in India: its causes, remedies and cure by A Montclar, Civil Engineer (Madras, 1878); and a pamphlet titled Soil Diseases are the principal causes of the coffee tree diseases in Ceylon and India by Monsieur A Montclar, Paper No.1
File R 654/1880 - Letter from the India Office to W H R Phillip, dated 6th September 1880, requesting that he procure six southdown rams for transmission to India for the Hissar cattle farm
File R 656/1880 - Correspondence with Sir Joseph Hooker regarding the transmission to India of Santa Fe cinchona plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in the charge of Robert Cross
File R 657/1880 - Correspondence with Colonel G Pearson regarding a bill for the allowance due to Messrs Brown, Bryant, Fowler and Hauxwell, students at the School of Forestry at Nancy
File R 658/1880 - Letter from Colonel G Pearson reporting that students A F Brown, F B Bryant, M S Fowler and T A Hauxwell had passed their final examination at the School of Forestry at Nancy