File S&C 868/1880 - Account for 7 shillings from Edward Stanford, Map and Bookseller and Stationer, 55 Charing Cross, London, for drawing railways on a map of India
File S&C 869/1880 - Receipt by The Royal Society of copies of Volume 5 of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India containing pendulum observations, presented by the Secretary of State for India, and a suggestion that Lord Rayleigh should be one to whom the volume would be useful to him in his scientific observations
Scope & Content:
Volume 5 of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India is not present in the file
File S&C 870/1880 - Proposed distribution lists of the work The Cave Temples in India, by Messrs. Fergusson and Burgess, and letters acknowledging the receipt of copies of the work
File S&C 871/1880 - Letter from W W Hunter, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh, dated 16th July 1880, submitting for sanction proof slips 2011-2110 of the Imperial Gazetteer (Shamshábád-Sudásna) and 2111-2206 (Sudhárám-Tirtháhalli)
File S&C 873/1880 - Letter from Her Majesty’s Office of Works, Whitehall Place, London, to the India Office, dated 16th July 1880, stating that the enlargement of Museum No.1 at Kew Gardens for the accommodation of the India Museum is so far advanced that a third instalment of £504 is now due to the contractor
File S&C 874/1880 - Request of Mr H B Medlicott, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, for Mr F R Mallet of the Geological Survey of India to obtain, during his stay in England, technological specimens for the Geological Museum at Calcutta
File S&C 876/1880 - Letters from Her Majesty’s Consulate at Jedda, and related observations, regarding concerns as to a decree issued by the Turkish authorities requiring the production of passports by all passengers and pilgrims arriving at Jedda
File S&C 877/1880 - Note, from W G Pedder to Mr Saunders, dated 19th July 1880, regarding the impossibility of retaining the services of Mr Tinsley in the map room after December 1880 and insisting on Mr Jones completing his arrears of map mounting by that time in order for him to be able to take over the work in the map room
File S&C 878/1880 - Covering letter to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26th June 1880, and related minute paper, regarding the transmission of twelve copies of the last issue of the History of Services of Gazetted Officers in the Civil Department serving in the Bombay Presidency