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61. IOR/F/4/2551/149281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2551/149281
Title:
Timber resources of India
Scope & Content:
Report on the timber resources of India, with special reference to the requirements of railroads
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847
Extent:
1 file

62. IOR/F/4/2595/157429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2595/157429
Title:
Calcutta Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [p 1] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors in the General Department (No.26 of 1854), dated 23rd May 1854, regarding the Government resolution that the gratuitous distribution of plants from the Company's Botanic Garden should...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1829-May 1854
Extent:

1 file

63. IOR/F/4/2648/172549

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2648/172549
Title:
Board's Collection
Scope & Content:
Cantonment gardens in the province of Pegu. Accompanied by a plan of the proposed site, removed and catalogued separately at IOR/W/F/4/2648/172549.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 file

64. IOR/F/4/2681/183465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2681/183465
Title:
Ootacamund Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Proceedings regarding the gardens, and on the subject of the gardens being placed on an equal footing as the Calcutta gardens
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-56
Extent:
1 file

65. IOR/F/4/2684/185611

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2684/185611
Title:
Dapuri Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Report on the garden by Alexander Gibson
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854
Extent:
1 file

66. IOR/F/4/2695/190938

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2695/190938
Title:
Calcutta Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Report on Calcutta Botanic Garden, T Thompson
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 file

67. IOR/H/375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/375
Title:
Hemp and Flax.
Scope & Content:
(1) pp. i-ii, 721-2, Index to pp. 1-572. (2) pp. iii-v, Approved Draft of Letter to Governor-General and Council 14th Oct. 1793, Relative to Samples of Hemp and Flax. (3) pp. 1-235, 579-633, 653-71, 717, Correspondence relative to cultivation of Hemp and Flax in India 11th March 1791 to 29th June...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1790-1805
Extent:

3 volumes in one slipcase

68. IOR/H/375, p.374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/375, p.374
Title:
Drawing of a Flax Plant, accompanying a letter sent by Dr William Roxburgh on 1st February 1793 to the Court of Directors entitled: 'A Botanical Description and Drawing of a new Species of Flax-plant with a few Observations thereon'
Scope & Content:
A water-colour drawing of a Flax Plant (‘Aletris Nervosus’) with dissections measuring 18.5 by 12 inches accompanying a letter sent by Dr Roxburgh from Samalkot on 1st February 1793 to the Court of Directors entitled, 'A Botanical Description and Drawing of a new Species of Flax-plant with a few...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1793
Extent:
1 Item

69. IOR/H/375 pp 243-61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/375 pp 243-61
Title:
Hemp and flax plants
Scope & Content:
"A botanical history of the (paat and dooncha) hemp and flax plants of Bengal, with the mode of cultivation and manufacture" by William Roxburgh
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Dec 1794
Extent:
18 folios

70. IOR/H/375, pp.255-261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/375, pp.255-261
Title:
4 drawings of plants, accompanying a letter sent by Dr William Roxburgh on 23rd December 1794 to the Court of Directors entitled: 'A Botanical History of the Hemp and Flax Plants of Bengal, with the mode of cultivation and manufacture'
Scope & Content:
Four water-colour drawings , measuring 18 by 12 inches, inscribed: (i) ‘Corchorus olitorius Linn’. No.901. (ii) ‘Corchorus capsuaris Linn’ No.902. (iii) ‘Corchorus fuscus’. No.903. (iv) ‘Aeschymomene cannabinaa’ of Konig. No.904. These drawings accompany a letter sent by Roxburgh to the Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1794
Extent:
1 Item