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41. IOR/F/4/2540/147892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2540/147892
Title:
Public Gardens in India
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Letter from the Government of India, Foreign Department, No.90 of 1853, dated Fort William 18th October 1853, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, regarding a proposition for the establishment of a public garden, and model farm, near the city of Amri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1853-Oct 1853
Extent:
1 file

42. IOR/F/4/2372/125902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2372/125902
Title:
Barley cultivation in the Nilgiri Hills
Scope & Content:
Cultivation of barley in the Nilgiris: Capt Ochterlony’s letter to Dr John Forbes Royle
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1849
Extent:

1 file

43. IOR/F/4/2429/132616

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2429/132616
Title:
Agri-Horticultural Society of the Punjab
Scope & Content:
Minute by the Governor General of India [Marquess of Dalhousie], 29 May 1851, approving the establishment of an Agri-Horticultural Society at Lahore in the Punjab and the dedication of a public garden for the Society’s use, and approving a monthly donation of 200 rupees to further its aims, on c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851
Extent:
1 file

44. IOR/F/4/98/1994

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/98/1994
Title:
Scope & Content:
Further papers regarding the abolition of the Company's Nopalry at Marmalong and Botanical Garden at Samalkot and the proposal to establish a botanical garden at Bangalore.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1800-Sep 1801
Extent:
1 file

45. IOR/F/4/1330/52529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1330/52529
Title:
Dye produced from the redwood tree found in Burma
Scope & Content:
The collection consists of the following papers regarding dye produced from a species of redwood tree found in Tavoy and Mergui in Burma: Note by George Swinton, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal, dated 28th November 1831, enclosing a letter from Thomas Speir, a silk printer of Calcu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1831-Jan 1833
Extent:
1 file

46. IOR/F/4/1755/71755

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1755/71755
Title:
Employment of Robert Wight as agricultural researcher in Madras Presidency
Scope & Content:
1837 correspondence between Government of Madras and Court of Directors of East India Company re Robert Wight’s continuing employment as agricultural researcher. Wight solicits financial help for illustrations for his book on useful plants [Figures of Indian Plants]; mentions his own purchase of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1837-Aug 1838
Extent:
1 file

47. IOR/F/4/379/9495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/379/9495
Title:
The edible vegetable products of India. 1810-1811.
Scope & Content:
The Madras Government recommend Dr Whitelaw Ainslie's treatise on the edible vegetables of India to the favourable notice of the Court of Directors (includes a copy of the treatise). Treatise intended as part of an appendix to a medical work on the region. "A catalogue of the edible vegetable pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1810-Mar 1811
Extent:
1 file

48. IOR/F/4/2189/107224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2189/107224
Title:
Export of wheat from India to England
Scope & Content:
Memoranda on the export of wheat from India to England, by John Forbes Royle
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 file

49. IOR/F/4/2271/116122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2271/116122
Title:
Proceedings relating to Assam (Naga and Garo Tribes)
Scope & Content:
[pp 135-172] Papers on the expedition to the Angami Hills by Captain John Butler, Principal Assistant Agent to the Governor General in charge of Nowgong, and J W Masters, Sub-Assistant Commissioner. The papers consist of the following: [pp 135-136] letter from Major F Jenkins, Agent to the Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 file

50. IOR/F/4/2498/141673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2498/141673
Title:
Saharanpur Botanic Garden, including papers re tea cultivation
Scope & Content:
[ff 1–19] extracts from Proceedings of the Revenue Department of the North Western Provinces between February and July 1851, mainly re discharge of an elderly Chinese tea manufacturer, Dawa Saw, at Pooree: free passage to Canton granted to him, and Ajeen, another tea manufacturer, permitted to a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1852
Extent:
1 file