File S&C 352/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper referring to the forwarding for the Board of Trade a copy of the proceedings of an investigation into the circumstances attending the grounding of the ss. Escambia on the Dahalak (Dahlak) Bank in the Red Sea on the 28th November 1879
File S&C 353/1880 - Extract from a report by Dr. Günther, Keeper of the Department of Zoology, dated 8th March 1880, with related letter from the British Museum, dated 17th March 1880, regarding the transfer of Zoological Collections from the India Museum to the British Museum
File S&C 354/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper referring to the publication of the Statistical Account of Aden, which was never sanctioned by Government, and a request for an explanation of the circumstances under which it was printed
File S&C 360/1880 - Letter from the Church Missionary Society dated 10th May 1880, and related minute paper, regarding the willingness of the Secretary of State for India to subscribe for six copies of the Suahili Dictionary, a work in course of preparation by the Church Missionary Association
File S&C 361/1880 - Report of the Geological Survey of India and of the Geological Museum for the year 1879, together with a copy of a Government of India Resolution No.70, dated 13th February 1880, briefly reviewing the year’s work
Scope & Content:
Report includes a map of India (scale 4cm = 400 English miles), compiled by J O N James, showing the present state of progress of the Geological Survey, 1880
File S&C 362/1880 - Comparative tabular return showing the monthly and total rainfall of India in 1879, together with a chart from the Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta, illustrating rainfall subdivisions in India
File S&C 363/1880 - Letter from John Healon, Parkfield House, Bradford, dated 18th March 1880, requesting to be supplied with a copy of the book Anwari Suheli, in connection with his work as an Indian Civil Service probationer