File S&C 178/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper noting financial totals for 1878-79, forwarded by the Accountant General, regarding the amount raised in England on loans, the amount of debt discharged in England and the amount on net receipts from guaranteed companies
File S&C 180/1880 - Request of the Science and Art Department, London, for a Golden Buddhist relic casket and an ancient silver salver, both in the possession of the India Office, to be transferred to the Indian Collection of the South Kensington Museum, for exhibition either permanently or on loan
File S&C 181/1880 - Observations regarding a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Hughes, Honorary Secretary of the Strangers Home for Asiatics, that called attention to the large number of Indian and other native seamen who were discharged at European ports from British and foreign vessels, and were sent from hence in a destitute condition to the United Kingdom
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The letter from Lieutenant Colonel Hughes is not present in the file
File S&C 184/1880 - Directive from the Secretary of State for India to forward, for the Board of Trade, a copy of a letter, with an enclosure from the Government of India, regarding a collision between the ss. Ava and the ship Brenhilda
File S&C 185/1880 - Letter of Messrs. Mark Dawson & Son, Worsted Spinners, Bradford, dated 9th February 1880, expressing a willingness to examine and report on 12 samples of Rhea fibre, and a draft reply by W G Pedder, Secretary, Revenue Department, advising that 12 cases containing Rhea samples have been despatched to Messrs. Mark Dawson & Son
File S&C 186/1880 - Request of Mr W T Thiselton Dyer, Assistant Director to the Royal Gardens, Kew, for any existing catalogues of wood specimens, lately forwarded to Kew, to be sent to him
File S&C 187/1880 - Handwritten unsigned draft letter referring to a letter from the Town Council of Glasgow regarding their liability to pay for the cases to exhibit the collection of Indian vegetable products, and asking for an explanation on the subject
File S&C 188/1880 - Letter from the Science and Art Department, London, dated 9th February 1880, and related minute papers, regarding the preparation of a rough inventory of the collection of examples of Indian art and manufactures which were transferred to the South Kensington Museum
File S&C 189/1880 - Claim of Messrs. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, London, that Thorntons Gazetteer of India value of copyright will become valueless by issue of the forthcoming Imperial Gazetteer