File R 653/1881 - Letter from H Cleghorn, MD, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 3rd September 1881, remarking on proposals of Dr Brandis, Inspector General of Forests, regarding the professional education of English students for the Forest Department of India
File R 655/1881 - Government of India letter, dated 12th August 1881, and related minute papers, regarding proposals for the scale and pay of Forest Conservators in India
File R 656/1881 - Application by woollen manufacturers Messrs. Hirst Brothers, Station Road, Batley, to offer a reward of £100 to anyone who could find a commercial outlet for wild silk
File R 657/1881 - Correspondence considering the case of Mr Edward Pratt, late Assistant to the Collector of Salt Revenue in the Bombay Presidency, where proceedings were taken against him for offences of misconduct
Scope & Content:
File includes a handritten memorial of Mr Edward Pratt, to the Secretary of State for India, dated 31st August 1881, appealing for a review of the whole of his case where proceedings were taken against him for offences of misconduct
File R 659/1881 - Letter from Le Chambre de Commerce Du Havre, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 3rd September 1881, regarding a memorandum on dyes of Indian growth and production
File R 661/1881 - Medical Board examination of students who have completed their training at the School of Forestry at Nancy
Scope & Content:
File includes Medical Board reports, dated 20th September 1881, naming Mr E S Carr and Mr F S Barker as physically fit for service in the Forest Department of India
File R 662/1881 - Request of Major Campbell of the India Office Military Department, to be allowed to accompany Colonel G Pearson on a tour to be undertaken with students from the School of Forestry at Nancy
File R 663/1881 - Letter from the President of La Chambre de Commerce de Lyon, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 9th February 1881, regarding a copy of a memorandum on dyes of Indian growth and production
File R 664/1881 - Letter from Thomas Wardle, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 8th September 1881, reporting on the results of an attempt to extend the utility and development of tusser silk while travelling in Germany
File R 665/1881 - Correspondence and related minute papers regarding the collection and exhibition of models and drawings to scale of agricultural implements and appliances, and requests for the Government of India to be supplied with a model “An aloe fibre extractor from Mexico”