File S&C 924/1880 - Application of Samuel Brown, a recently appointed Engineer to the Government of Cyprus, for a copy of Captain Scott Moncrieff’s report on irrigation in southern Europe
File S&C 925/1880 - Letter from the Bombay Government, Bombay Castle, dated 10th July 1880, in reply to Lord Cranbrook’s despatch No.13 dated 18th March 1880, forwarding for distribution certain bronze medals and diplomas received by His Lordship from the Secretary to the Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition, and pointing out certain inaccuracies
File S&C 926/1880 - Report from the Master of the ship Cedric the Saxon, transmitted by telegram, of a supposed shipwreck apparently on the shore of Inaccessible Island, 23 miles south west of Tristan d’Acunha (da Cunha)
File S&C 927/1880 - Request of the Government of India Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, to be supplied with 100 additional copies of Dr. Forbes Watson’s Report on Cotton Gin Trials, for sale to the public
File S&C 930/1880 - Letter from the Revenue Department, Bombay Castle, dated 10th July 1880, to the Under Secretary of State for India, acknowledging receipt of 100 copies of Dr. Forbes Watson’s Report on Cotton Gin Trials, and stating that no further copies of the report are required at present
File S&C 931/1880 - Despatch from the Chief Commissioner, British Burma Revenue Department, to the India Office, of copies of the British Burma Lighthouse Report for 1879/80, the Lock Hospital Report for 1879, the British Burma Police Report for 1879, and Volume II of the British Burma Gazetteer
Scope & Content:
The reports and gazetteer are not present in the file
File S&C 933/1880 - Offer from a Mr Cavalcante from Rio de Janeiro, of an antidote against the bites of poisonous snakes, stated to have been discovered by one of the chiefs of an indigenous tribe of Brazil
File S&C 935/1880 - Letter from W H Grimley enquiring as to the patronage of his edition of the Sea Customs Law of India, 1878, and Tariff Act, and the beginning and ending of the Doorga Poojah (Durga Puja) holidays
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Sea Customs Law of India, 1878, and Tariff Act
File S&C 936/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper as to the forwarding of an extract of a letter received from the Government of India regarding the grounding of the ss.Orion in the Hooghly River in 1879