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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Natural History Museum, 1881-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/135
Title:
File 758/1908 'Arabia: Travellers - Mr G W Bury'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the movements of the explorer and naturalist, George Wyman Bury. The majority of the correspondence is between Bury himself, the India Office, the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and the Political Residency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1915
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B152
Title:
British Museum report on the Persian Gulf as a possible area for successful sponge fisheries. (Pol. No. 1718/05)
Scope & Content:
Report prepared by Randolph Kirkpatrick of the British Museum (Natural History) in November 1905 into the commercial potential of sponge fisheries in the Persian Gulf. The report is organised into small sections, as follows: Conditions favourable to the growth of commercial sponges; Unfavourabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1905
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)