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61. IOR/L/E/3/836 no 13 coll 2 vol 2

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IOR/L/E/3/836 no 13 coll 2 vol 2
Title:
Report by Dr Alexander Gibson, Conservator of Forests in Bombay, for the year 1858/59, and the orders of Government passed thereon
Scope & Content:
Cover page for Collection No.2, Vol.2, Bombay, Revenue Department. Letter from A Gibson, Conservator of Forests, Bombay, to the Secretary to the Bombay Government, Revenue Department, dated Aden 31st May 1859, forwarding his report. Report by Dr A Gibson, Conservator of Forests, on the Botan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1859-Aug 1859
Extent:
1 file

62. IOR/L/E/3/851 no 14

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IOR/L/E/3/851 no 14
Title:
Teak tree
Scope & Content:
The natural history and biology of the teak tree, by N A Dalzell
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1869
Extent:

1 file

63. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 50

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 50
Title:
Rubber trees in Brazil
Scope & Content:
Report on the investigation and collection of plants and seeds of the India-rubber trees of Para and Ceara and balsam of Copaiba [all in Brazil], by Robert Cross. With black-and-white illustrations of tree-tapping for rubber and balsam, and of rubber preparation. Cross discusses the relative suit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
25 pages

64. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 66

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 66
Title:
Cinchona febrifuge
Scope & Content:
Report by Dr J E de Vrij, The Hague, on the Bengal cinchona febrifuge [remedy against fever], in letters dated 6 April and 6 September 1878 and 11 January 1879. Explains chemical composition of the febrifuge; discusses a component believed to have toxic effects; recommends that quinine and febri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878-79
Extent:
6pp

65. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 67

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 67
Title:
Cinchona bark
Scope & Content:
Letter from J Broughton, Government Quinologist, to Revenue Department, Government of Madras, 31 July 1871, analysing cinchona barks from different plantations in India. Letter from John Eliot Howard at Tottenham to Under Secretary of State for India, 16 January 1872, responding to Broughton’s r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1871-72
Extent:
13pp

66. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 68

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 68
Title:
Cinchona: a review
Scope & Content:
An administrative history of the recent cultivation and export of cinchona, compiled from the records by F C Danvers, India Office, 30 June 1883. Discusses the Madras plantations, the commercial value of different kinds of bark, and the future of the market. Includes tabular statement of the quan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
17pp

67. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 69

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 69
Title:
Cinchona and Joseph Hooker
Scope & Content:
Letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Assistant Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, to Secretary of State for India, 9 August 1882, on behalf of Sir Joseph Hooker, Director, disputing the supposed toxicity of cinchona febrifuge manufactured in Sikkim, and proposing steps to improve the manufacture of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882
Extent:
15pp

68. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 70

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 70
Title:
Cinchona from Columbia
Scope & Content:
Analysis of cinchona bark from Columbia by John Eliot Howard, submitted to the Secretary of State for India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1878
Extent:
1p

69. IOR/L/E/5/70 no 71

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IOR/L/E/5/70 no 71
Title:
Forest produce of India
Scope & Content:
Memorandum on collection and use of minor forest produce, such as gums, resins, dyes, and drugs, by Hugh Cleghorn
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1869
Extent:
1p

70. IOR/L/PJ/1/95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PJ/1/95
Title:
Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee Papers
Scope & Content:
Papers re introduction of quinine-yielding cinchona into India, 1836-1859; bound with papers re Madras Observatory, 1855 and Madras School of Art, 1854
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1859
Extent:
1 volume