File S&C 1256/1880 - Letter from W W Hunter, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh advising of the despatch of a box containing the remainder of the work Statistical Account of Aden available for distribution, and offering an explanation on the disposal of ‘missing’ copies of the work
File S&C 1258/1880 - Letter from the Admiralty, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 27th October 1880, asking to be favoured with a reply to a letter of 20th March 1880 relating to the position of Naval Officers employed on the Indian Marine Survey, especially as regards the case of Navigating Lieutenant Jarrad
File S&C 1259/1880 - Appointment of Mr Frederick Marshall to the post of Assistant Mathematical Instrument Maker in the Mathematical Instrument Department under the Surveyor General of India
File S&C 1260/1880 - Government of India Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department letter, to the Secretary of State for India, dated 5th October 1880, forwarding, in duplicate, annual abstracts of the estimates of stores required from England for the several branches of the Surveyor General’s Office for the year 1881-82, and offering an explanation as to a change in the practice of preparing the estimate of the Lithographic Branch
File S&C 1261/1880 - Request of Mr J Forbes Watson, to the Under Secretary of State for India, for remaining copies of the work People of India to be delivered to Messrs. Allen & Co.
File S&C 1262/1880 - Letter from Mr J Forbes Watson, to the Under Secretary of State for India, stating that although he believes all materials for the work on Indian Foods Grains and other Vegetable Substances have been delivered, he will ascertain if any other material bearing on the work is in his possession and forward it accordingly
File S&C 1263/1880 - Application of Mr H C des Tosses, Paris, for permission to have access to original records held at the India Office entitled ‘Law Case No.31, dated 3rd March 1752,’ on the subject of an allegation by Colonel G B Malleson of bribery against the French Naval Officer La Bourdonnais
Scope & Content:
File includes minute papers noting detailed observations in connection with Law Case No.31, dated 3rd March 1752, with references to the activities of the English and French naval fleets, the character and activities of the French Naval Officer La Bourdonnais, and the bribery allegation against him
File S&C 1266/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers noting arrangements for a mission to India of Mr C P Clarke to purchase objects for the India Museum at South Kensington
File S&C 1267/1880 - Government of India Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department letter, to the Secretary of State for India, dated 5th October 1880, explaining a delay in furnishing information regarding statistics of sugar cultivation called for in Lord Cranbrook’s despatch N.37 of the 20th March 1879