File S&C 1050/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade forwarding for transmission a copy of the Report of the Formal Investigation into the supposed loss of the sailing ship Essex with a cargo of rice, and calling attention to the improper storage of the cargo, the extreme hast with which these vessels are sometimes laden, and the nature of the ventilation
Scope & Content:
The Report of the Formal Investigation is not present in the file
File S&C 1051/1880 - Letter of the South Kensington Museum, dated 2nd September 1880, and related minute papers, as to the non-receipt of certain Paris Exhibition medals and errors in the spelling of names on a list of awards
Scope & Content:
File includes a Paris Exhibition, 1878, list of awards to India not yet received
File S&C 1052/1880 - Letter from C Joakim, Oaklands, Plymouth, Devon, requesting particulars of the Indian Pilot Service, and a draft reply forwarding a copy of the Regulations for the Admission of Leadsmen Apprentices into the Bengal Pilot Service
File S&C 1053/1880 - Letter from the Privy Council Office, Whitehall, dated 3rd September 1880, and related minute papers, regarding the proposed International Sanitary Conference at Washington
File S&C 1054/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding to the Army Sanitary Commission of a copy of the Report of the Municipal Corporation of Bombay for 1879
File S&C 1055/1880 - Board of Trade letter, dated 4th September 1880, on the subject of the provisions of boat and other life-saving appliances to passenger vessels, stating that they have no experience of the value of collapsing boats, nor of their availability in tropical climates
File S&C 1056/1880 - Letters from Robert Sewell on the subject of his Report on the Amarávati Tope and the despatch of copies of the report to the Government of Madras for distribution
File S&C 1057/1880 - Request of Japp & Kirby, Liverpool, for a copy of regulations for the transport of coolies, on account of a readiness to carry pilgrims to and from Jeddah to Calcutta and Bombay
File S&C 1058/1880 - Application of Charles E D Black, Secretary of State Home Department, for a copy of the work entitled Cave Temples of India by Messrs. Fergusson and Burgess, and a copy of Mr Birdwood’s Industrial Arts of India