File R 360/1880 - Draft letter to Dr Paul, 1 Victoria Street, Westminster, dated 27th April 1880, requesting that he analyse samples of cinchona bark which were being forwarded to him
File R 362/1880 - Letter from Trubner & Co, American, European and Oriental Literary Agency, dated 27th April 1880, acknowledging receipt of 50 copies of the report on the Wynaad gold fields by R Brough Smyth for sale on account of the Secretary of State for India
File R 363/1880 - Papers regarding the travelling expenses of Colonel Pearson while accompanying the English forest students at Nancy on their tour in the forests in the south of France
File R 367/1880 - Letter from Robert Cross to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 28th April 1880, regarding the transport of cinchona plants to India
File R 373/1880 - Confidential Abstract of the Proceedings of the Bombay Government in the Revenue Department (Miscellaneous) for the month of January 1880
Scope & Content:
Includes a minute by the Governor of Bombay, dated 6th January 1880, on the removal of the salt preventive line between Kathiawar and Gujarat; and a brief summary of Colonel Barton's proposals for Kathiawar salt supply
File R 374/1880 - Letter to Jenkin & Phillips, London Drug Brokers, dated 3rd May 1880, transmitting the bill of lading and detailed invoice for 16 bales of cinchona bark despatched from Madras on the ship Pekin