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1. IOR/F/4/2495/157429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2495/157429
Title:
Board's Collection
Scope & Content:
Free distribution of plants from the Company's botanical gardens to cease from 1 April 1857
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-54
Extent:
1 file

2. IOR/F/4/1191/30877

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1191/30877
Title:
Saharanpur Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Government of Bengal to Court of Directors enclosing documents relating to botanical establishments. [ff 13-69] Extract Public Letter from Bengal, 1 July 1828, of report dated 1 December 1827 by John Forbes Royle on the Botanic Garden at Saharanpur. Summarises measures taken for garden's improve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1825-Mar 1829
Extent:
1 file

3. IOR/F/4/1833/75987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1833/75987
Title:
Cassia and cinnamon
Scope & Content:
Table of contents. Extract from Revenue General letter from Madras, No.4, dated 23rd February 1838, regarding two shipments of Cassia from Canara [Kanara], and correspondence which had taken place with the Government of Ceylon and the local officers on the Malabar Coast as well as with Surgeon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1837-Mar 1839
Extent:
1 file

4. IOR/F/4/2545/148859

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2545/148859
Title:
Board's Collection
Scope & Content:
Punjab Government garden at Dinanagar under the charge of Gulab Bhagwan
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1852-53
Extent:
1 file

5. 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

6. IOR/F/4/1935/83556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1935/83556
Title:
Cotton cultivation in India
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the promotion of cotton cultivation in India - employment in Northern India of four of the planters recruited in the USA by Captain Thomas Bayles, viz: Thomas J Finnie, William R Mercer, Thomas J Terry and John M Blount - reports of Dr Robert Wight (Madras Presidency) Dr Alexande...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1838-Nov 1841
Extent:
1 file

7. IOR/F/4/1276/51241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1276/51241
Title:
Indigo cultivation in India
Scope & Content:
Relations between the European indigo planters and their native tenants, Vol 2.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1828-Jan 1830
Extent:
1 file

8. IOR/F/4/660/18324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/660/18324
Title:
Saharanpur Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
[pp 1-4] Extract from the Public letter from Bengal, dated 4th January 1821, regarding the management of the Honorable Company's Botanic Garden at Saharanpur. [pp 5-8] Extract from the Public letter to Bengal, dated 28th June 1820, relative to the condition of the Botanic Garden at Saharanpur,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1820-Jan 1821
Extent:
1 file

9. IOR/F/4/1907/81500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1907/81500
Title:
Dapuri Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
[pp 1-1A] Extract from the Revenue letter from Bombay, dated 26th November (No.64) 1839, regarding Dr Gibson's report on his management of the experimental gardens in the Deccan, and Dr Gibson's proposal that the sugars manufactured under his superintendence should be supplied to the European so...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1839-Feb 1840
Extent:
1 file

10. IOR/F/4/1949/84747

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1949/84747
Title:
Cotton cultivation in Bombay
Scope & Content:
Abandonment by the American cotton planters of the experiment at Bombay, Vol 1 (including a memorial from the Chamber of Commerce of Bombay regarding the failure of the operations and praying for a resumption of the experiment)
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1842-Mar 1842
Extent:
1 file