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21. 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

22. IOR/F/4/1952/84992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1952/84992
Title:
Cotton farms in Coimbatore
Scope & Content:
Cotton: proceedings of the American cotton planters on the Government experimental cotton farms in Coimbatore (including List of Stores received for the use of the American Cotton Planters for January to March 1842, and plans of a Gin House in Broach, pp.103-113)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1841-May 1842
Extent:
1 file

23. IOR/F/4/2528/145895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2528/145895
Title:
Saharanpur Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [p 1] Letter from the Government of India, Home Department, No.49 of 1852, dated Fort William 17th September 1852, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, transmitting a copy of a communication received from the Government of the North Western Provinces, reporti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1852-Sep 1852
Extent:
1 file

24. IOR/F/4/1737/70400

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1737/70400
Title:
Cultivation of cotton and senna
Scope & Content:
Circulars on the cultivation of cotton and senna are sent by Dr Robert Wight to the Collectors of the Madras Presidency (printed copies of the circulars, dated 15 Apr 1837 and 22 May 1837, are to be found on pp 7-23) - correspondence between Wight and the Madras Chamber of Commerce
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1837-Nov 1837
Extent:
1 file

25. IOR/F/4/1771/72784

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1771/72784
Title:
Sugar cane cultivation in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Proposals by Government of Bombay to encourage the better manufacture of sugar by native cultivators in Bombay Presidency, in view of crop’s importance for export and the successful introduction of Mauritian sugar cane to the country. Tale of contents. Documents include: [f. 7–15] from Territori...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1837-Jan 1839
Extent:
1 file

26. IOR/F/4/1187/30806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1187/30806
Title:
Spice gardens of Tinnevelly
Scope & Content:
[pp 1-2] Extract from Revenue letter from Fort St George, dated 4th July 1828, regarding the spice gardens of the Tinnevelly District, and information relative to the cultivation of nutmegs and the preparation of them for the European market. [pp 3-14] Report by J Monro, Collector of Tinnevell...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1820-Jul 1828
Extent:
1 file

27. IOR/F/4/1754/71645

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1754/71645
Title:
Hemp cultivation in India
Scope & Content:
Paper by Dr John Forbes Royle on the advantages and practicability of cultivating hemp [cannabis sativa] in India with a view to the supply of that article to meet the large demand existing in Great Britain: importance to British Naval and Merchant shipping of hemp in the manufacture of ropes an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839?
Extent:
1 file

28. IOR/F/4/2192/107525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2192/107525
Title:
Public Gardens in Delhi
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Foreign Department of the North Western Provinces between June 1846 and February 1847 regarding the attempt by Bahadur Shah, King of Delhi, to dispossess Khoosroo Zemanee Begum [Khushru uz-Zamani Begum], the widow of his late brother Prince Saleem [Shahzada M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1847
Extent:

1 file

29. IOR/F/4/2514/143770

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2514/143770
Title:
Papers of William Griffith
Scope & Content:
Posthumous compilation of William Griffith's papers
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 file

30. IOR/F/4/2399/129335

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2399/129335
Title:
Ootacamund Botanical Garden
Scope & Content:
Report on Ootacumund Gardens for 1848, by W G McIvor
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1848
Extent:

1 file