File S&C 1241/1880 - Request of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office for a copy of the Map of India, 1877, (with additions and corrections to April 1880) for the use of the War Office Intelligence Branch
File S&C 1242/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper noting the forwarding to the Lords of the Admiralty of letter received from the Government of India enclosing a Government of Bombay resolution as to a proposed survey of the of the vicinity of Jubal Zooghur Island in the Red Sea
File S&C 1244/1880 - Explanation of Dr G Birdwood regarding his application to be supplied with a copy of each official Gazetteer, as it appears, for his own personal use
File S&C 1245/1880 - Application from the Librarian, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, for a copy of the 3 volumes of the work by J Burgess entitled Archaeological Survey of Western India
File S&C 1246/1880 - Memorandum of Dr George Birdwood, Special Assistant in the India Office, submitted in connection with the preparation of his Handbook on the Industrial Arts of India, claiming that little attention is paid to the handicraft manufacturers of India in most of the annual administration reports
File S&C 1249/1880 - Submission to the India Office, by Major Raverty, Milverton, Somerset, of the manuscript of Part 3 of the third Section of his Notes on Afghanistan
File S&C 1254/1880 - Letter to the India Office, from Mr A Derinck of Lille, forwarding a small sample of an unknown vegetable fibre for identification
Scope & Content:
The vegetable fibre sample is not present in the file
File S&C 1255/1880 - Letter from Her Majesty’s Office of Works advising the India Office that the enlargement of Museum No.1 at Kew Gardens, for the accommodation of the India Museum Collection, is so fare advanced that a fifth instalment of £225 is now due to the Contractor