‘Regarding the recently ascertained error in the Geographical position of Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Marine Letters sent between the Government of Bombay and the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1847 and 26 May 1847. The item relates to the discovery of an error in the hydrog...
‘Reports of Journeys made into the S.E. Coast of Arabia by some officers of the Surveying Brig “Palinurus”’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies of correspondence enclosed with an extract Marine Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 September 1847. The item contains a letter from the Superintendent of the Indian Navy to the Governor of Bombay, dated 7 Augu...
'Claims of Major W Jacob & Lt Col Grant connected with the pleas for the defences of Aden'
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Military Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 10 September 1847. The item relates to requests for remuneration made by Major William Jacob, Bo...
‘Reports upon the state of the principal works at Aden.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of a Military Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 30 September 1847. The first part of the item, folios 722-731, contains enclosures to paragraph ...
