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71. IOR/H/375, pp.268-274

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IOR/H/375, pp.268-274
Title:
4 drawings depicting Hemp and Flax Plants. Made by an Indian draughtsman to accompany a note on the cultivation of flax and hemp in Bengal, submitted by Michael Atkinson, Resident of Jungypore, on 21st November 1792
Scope & Content:
Four water-colour drawings , measuring 15 by 9.5 inches, depicting Hemp and Flax Plants, (i) 'Ghore Sun', (ii) 'Cooch Murdun Paat', (iii) 'Amleeah Paat', (iv) 'Sanchee Paat'. These drawings , made by Indian draughtsmen, accompanied a note on the cultivation of flax and hemp in Bengal submitted ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1792
Extent:
1 Item

72. IOR/H/375 pp 473-546

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IOR/H/375 pp 473-546
Title:
Plants in the Spice Islands
Scope & Content:
[p 473] Title page. [pages bound out of sequence: pp 477-482, 489-492, 483-488, 493-497] Letter from C Smith to G H Barlow, Secretary to the Government, dated 24th June 1798, enclosing for the information of the Governor General of India a list of all the plants collected by him during his res...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1798
Extent:
73 folios

73. 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

74. 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

76. 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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

78. 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

79. 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

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

Reference (shelfmark):
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