File S&C 1413/1880 - Letter from Joseph Radford, Secretary and Librarian, St Margaret and St John, Westminster, Free Public Library, dated 30th November 1880, regarding certain volumes of The Sacred Books of the East edited by F Max Muller
File S&C 1417/1880 - Correspondence relating to the employment in England of Major Herschel of the Trigonometrical Branch of the Survey of India, for the purpose of combining the results of the pendulum observations taken in India with those taken in other parts of the world
File S&C 1418/1880 - Request from W Griggs, The Photo-Lithographic Establishment, London, for a copy of the work by Henry Hardy Cole, Illustrations of buildings near Muttra and Agra, showing the mixed Hindu-Mahomedan style of Upper India
File S&C 1419/1880 - Request from W Martin Wood, Hon Secretary, Bombay Branch, Royal Asiatic Society Library, for a copy of An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms by Wilbraham Egerton
File S&C 1420/1880 - Papers regarding a proposal to issue in England a revised edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia
Scope & Content:
The papers contain lists of Indian drugs and medicines suggested for inclusion in the new edition, and includes "Drugs of Bombay: The Pharmacopoeia prepared by the Bombay Committee"
File S&C 1423/1880 - Papers regarding the expenditure for the binding of a collection of photographs and drawings of the "Seven Pagodas" forwarded by the Madras Government
File S&C 1425/1880 - Proposed survey of the vicinity of the island of Jubal Zooghur [Jabal Zuqar] in the Red Sea
Scope & Content:
Includes a report on the result of an investigation held at Aden in reference to the loss of the steamer Duke of Lancaster at Jubal Zooghur Island in the Red Sea on the 13th of July 1880