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21. IOR/F/4/1787/73597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1787/73597
Title:
Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
Scope & Content:
Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1837-5 Sep 1838
Extent:

16 folios

22. IOR/F/4/1789/73724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1789/73724
Title:
Botanic garden at Nirguri, Poona
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp A-H] Letter from the Government of Bombay, Territorial Department, No.21 of 1838, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 6th September 1838, regarding the formation of a Botanical Garden in the Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar] Collectorate. [p I] Extract fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1836-Sep 1838
Extent:
1 file

23. IOR/F/4/1798/73869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1798/73869
Title:
Nursery gardens in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-3] Extract from Public letter No.35 of 1838 from the Government of India, dated 1st November 1838, requesting sanction of the appointments of Mr McCulloch to the situation of Superintendent of the Government Botanic Gardens under the Bombay Presidency, and Dr Gibson to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1829-Sep 1839
Extent:
1 file

24. IOR/F/4/1815/74864

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1815/74864
Title:
Employment of convicts in agriculture
Scope & Content:
Robert Wight writes (ff 4-12) to Government of Madras recommending convicts be employed as agricultural labourers on experimental farms. Wight notes inefficiency of existing tools used by labourers; proposes that prisoners work with European tools such as the wheelbarrow or the hoe. Recommends t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1836-Aug 1837
Extent:

9 folios

25. IOR/F/4/1828/75444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1828/75444
Title:
Saharanpur Botanic Garden: Hugh Falconer’s report and related documents
Scope & Content:
Main documents, in order of their appearance, include: (1) Covering letter dated 24 Jul 1839 from Lord Auckland, Governor General, to Court of Directors of East India Company, expressing confidence in Falconer’s report and reiterating some of the demands made therein, e.g. for medical plants fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Nov 1835]-Mar 1840
Extent:
1 file

26. IOR/F/4/1833/75987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1833/75987
Title:
Cassia and cinnamon
Scope & Content:
Table of contents. Extract from Revenue General letter from Madras, No.4, dated 23rd February 1838, regarding two shipments of Cassia from Canara [Kanara], and correspondence which had taken place with the Government of Ceylon and the local officers on the Malabar Coast as well as with Surgeon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1837-Mar 1839
Extent:
1 file

27. IOR/F/4/1867/79308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1867/79308
Title:
Further papers regarding the proposed exchange of vegetable products between Europe and India
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. Extracts from Public letters from the Government of India, 31st May to 4th December 1839, on the subject of the interchange of vegetable productions of India and Europe with a view to their naturalisation. Public Department letter, No.1 of 1839, to the Governor General of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1838-Dec 1839
Extent:
1 file

28. IOR/F/4/1907/81500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1907/81500
Title:
Dapuri Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
[pp 1-1A] Extract from the Revenue letter from Bombay, dated 26th November (No.64) 1839, regarding Dr Gibson's report on his management of the experimental gardens in the Deccan, and Dr Gibson's proposal that the sugars manufactured under his superintendence should be supplied to the European so...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1839-Feb 1840
Extent:
1 file

29. IOR/F/4/1935/83556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1935/83556
Title:
Cotton cultivation in India
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the promotion of cotton cultivation in India - employment in Northern India of four of the planters recruited in the USA by Captain Thomas Bayles, viz: Thomas J Finnie, William R Mercer, Thomas J Terry and John M Blount - reports of Dr Robert Wight (Madras Presidency) Dr Alexande...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1838-Nov 1841
Extent:
1 file

30. IOR/F/4/1949/84747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1949/84747
Title:
Cotton cultivation in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Abandonment by the American cotton planters of the experiment at Bombay, Vol 1 (including a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce of Bombay regarding the failure of the operations and praying for a resumption of the experiment)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1842-Mar 1842
Extent:
1 file