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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Locusts Name Middle East Anti-Locust Unit, Mid 20th century

1. IOR/L/PS/12/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/658
Title:
Ext 6705/41(2) 'Locusts'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams, drafts, extracts, and notes concerning efforts to control locust outbreaks in India, Iran, and parts of the Middle East. Included within the file: Monthly reports on locust outbreaks from the Political Agent, Muscat, sent to the Imperial Agricultural Resear...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1946-27 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (107 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1544

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1544
Title:
‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (448 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1545

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1545
Title:
‘File 16/37 A II Anti Locust Measures’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to locust-control campaigns taking place on the Arabian peninsula and in southern Persia [Iran] between May 1943 and September 1944. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/37A-I Anti-Locust Measures’ (IOR/R/15/2/1544). The pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 May 1943-24 Apr 1952
Extent:
1 file (440 folios)