File R 803/1881 - Letter from Mr T P Peake, dated 24th October 1881, regarding his intention to return to Nancy ‘this week’ owing to the Medical Board appearing to be favourable
File R 808/1881 - Recommendation by the Surgeon General Edward Balfour regarding an application to the Foreign and Colonial Office for obtaining, from each of the British Colonies and Consulates, the seeds of all the indigenous economic plants of temperate and tropical countries for experimental cultivation in India
File R 810/1881 - Letter from Thomas Wardle, dated 27th October 1881, requesting 100 copies of his Handbook of the Wild Silks of India for distribution purposes
File R 819/1881 - Papers on the subject of land revenue settlements in the temporarily settled parts of British India
Scope & Content:
File includes a general summary forming the introduction to a Memorandum on land tenures of India by Mr E Stack, late Officiating Under-Secretary in the Government of India Revenue and Agricultural Department, and a Government of India Resolution on the merits of the Memorandum, and on the gener...
File R 820/1881 - Papers on the subject of legislation relating to forests in the Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:
File includes Despatch No.20 from the Government of India, dated 10th October 1881, communicating remarks regarding the Forest Act proposed to be introduced into the Madras Presidency, and to which the Governor General is unable to give his consent