File S&C 507/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper referring to the forwarding to the Board of Trade a copy of papers received from the Government of Bombay regarding the desertion of a seaman named Davis from the ss.Wilton
File S&C 508/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers and a letter from the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, London, regarding the distribution of copies of Mr W Egerton’s catalogue of the arms exhibited in the India Museum
File S&C 509/1880 - Request from the Secretary of The Vegetarian Society, Manchester, for a copy of Sacred Books of the East to be supplied to Mr W Axon, one of the Vice-Presidents of the society
File S&C 511/1880 - Covering letter from the Home Office, London, to the Under Secretary of State for India, transmitting a copy of the General Orders and Regulations of the Metropolitan Police on the subject of smoke nuisance and a copy of the Liverpool Sanitary Act, Section 126
Scope & Content:
File consists of covering letter and related minute paper
File S&C 512/1880 - Application of Major G J Van Someren, 47 Chepstow Place, Bayswater, London, for the loan of a copy of the Mysore Administration Report, 1878-79
File S&C 514/1880 - Nomination of Mr P N Bose to fill a vacancy in the Geological Survey of India
Scope & Content:
File includes a description by P N Bose of Fossil Carnivora from the Siválik Hills in the collection of the British Museum (from the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for February 1880)
File S&C 515/1880 - Request of Mr W W Hunter, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh, to Mr W G Pedder Secretary to the Revenue Department, for the loan of certain accounts and vouchers
File S&C 516/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding a request for the sanction of the payment of certain bills for materials supplied to the Map-mounter during the fourth quarter of 1879