File S&C 555/1880 - Letter from Mr W W Hunter, Edinburgh, dated 5th May 1880, and related minute paper, regarding the sanctioning of an extended period of eight months for the completion of the Imperial Gazetteer, and his preparedness to return to India for the Census
File S&C 556/1880 - Report, by WW Hunter, Director General of Statistics to the Government of India, on the progress of the Statistical Survey and Imperial Gazetteer for the financial year ending 31st March 1880, and related minute papers
File S&C 559/1880 - Letter from Sir William Muir, India Office, and related minute papers, regarding his wish to submit copies of his book Extracts from the Coran for distribution
File S&C 560/1880 - Claim for £20.16s.8d. for landlord’s income tax, for the year ending 5th April 1880, in respect of the Galleries occupied by the India Museum
File S&C 561/1880 - Request of Horace Brown, Salem, Massachusetts, USA, for a copy of the work by Henry H Cole entitled Illustrations of Ancient Buildings in Kashmir
File S&C 562/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding to the Army Sanitary Commission a copy of the Medical and Sanitary report on the Native Army of Madras for the year 1878
File S&C 563/1880 - Correspondence regarding cases of inconvenience experienced by the India Office as a result of the transmission of enclosures in original by the Foreign Office
File S&C 565/1880 - Enquiry of Mr P N Bose, newly appointed as a Third grade Assistant in the Geological Survey, as to the possibility of receiving the value of his passage ticket to Calcutta on account of his wish to study geology on the continent before proceeding to India, together with a request for the grant of “outfit money”
File S&C 566/1880 - Papers regarding the agreement between the India Office and the Museum Committee of the Town Council of Glasgow, to provide botanic-economical collections of Indian products to Kelvin Grove Museum, Glasgow
Scope & Content:
File includes a summary (from the Town Clerks Office, Glasgow) of specimens received in December 1879 from the Director of Kew, together with details of the collection for Glasgow Industrial Museum