File S&C 761/1880 - Reports regarding the search for Sanskrit Manuscripts with lists of Sanskrit Manuscripts in private libraries of Southern India, submitted by Dr Oppert, forwarded to the Government of India
File S&C 764/1880 - Letter from the Prague Observatory dated 18th June 1880, and related minute paper, regarding the forwarding of several Meteorological works for distribution and their subsequent receipt into the Registry Department on 23rd June 1880
File S&C 765/1880 - Enquiry by telegram from the Governor of Bombay asking whether any simple and inexpensive machinery worked by hand is obtainable in England for compressing tea and whether tea so compressed preserves its aroma if packed in cases that are not air tight
File S&C 766/1880 - Letters of explanation to the India Office from Dr Cooke arising from an unintentional delay in reporting himself to Joseph Hooker at the Royal Gardens, Kew, to undertake special duties
File S&C 767/1880 - Enquiry of Mr D Whitehead (junior) as to whether the Government of India still offers a reward of £5000 for a cheap invention for separating the fibre from the wood and bark of “China Grass”
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of Notification No.45, dated 31st August 1877, on the subject of Fibres and Silk, issued by the Government of India Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce
File S&C 769/1880 - Letter from A B Mitford, Secretary to Her Majesty’s Office of Works, Whitehall Place, London, dated 23rd June 1880, advising the India Office that the enlargement of Museum No.1 at Kew Gardens, for the new accommodation of the India Museum, is so far advanced that a second instalment of £225 is now due to the contractor
File S&C 770/1880 - Application to the India Office from the Librarian, Lincoln’s Inn Library, for a presentation copy of the frequently requested book relating to India entitled Imperial Statutes, 1855-70
File S&C 771/1880 - Orders in Council, dated 14th August 1879 and 24th March 1880, regarding revised regulations for preventing collisions at sea, together with instructions for the distribution of copies of the Orders in Council
File S&C 772/1880 - Application from the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, for the transfer to them of all of the negatives of architectural photographs, currently exhibited in the Indian Section of the South Kensington Museum