File R 279/1880 - Letters from Mr Thisetton Dyer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to the India Office regarding the cinchona plants under the charge of Robert Cross
File R 280/1880 - Correspondence with Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, regarding a cheque for £12,000 on account of the sale of 622 bales of cinchona bark received per Hydaspes
File R 284/1880 - Papers regarding the reservation of the rights of the State to minerals in India, of modifications of the Waste Land Rules necessary to secure the rights, and of the terms on which applications to mine in Government waste lands in auriferous tracts should be complied with
Scope & Content:
Includes the following papers: Translation of a perpetual lease of the Serampore coal field taken from the Rajah of Serampore, dated 1863 Printed copy of the lease of Kurhurballee coal fields, and agreement regarding the working capital, dated 10th July 1874 Instructions sent to the Governor Ge...
File R 287/1880 - Memorial from Bindeshri Baksh, a resident of the Allahabad District, North Western Provinces, praying that certain villages be taken under the management of the Court of Wards
File R 288/1880 - Government orders enjoining greater punctuality in submitting annual forest reports, and referring to previous orders urging that the civil and forest administrations be bound together more closely, as well as to the orders for localising the superior staff of the Forest Department