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Subject Cochineal

1. IOR/F/4/17/753

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IOR/F/4/17/753
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Scope & Content:
Proposal to introduce the cultivation of cochineal in India using insects imported from Brazil.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1795-May 1797
Extent:
1 file

2. IOR/F/4/67/1481

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IOR/F/4/67/1481
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Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the cultivation and manufacture of sugar, rum, indigo, cotton, silk and cochineal in the Baramahal and Salem Districts under the administration of Lieut Colonel Alexander Read, (includes a list of villages on the Cauvery river).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1796-Oct 1798
Extent:
1 file

3. IOR/F/4/297/6876

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/297/6876
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Scope & Content:
A reward of £2000 is offered by the Madras Government to anyone who successfully imports the cochineal insect to India from South America.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar-Oct 1807
Extent:
1 file

4. IOR/F/4/1768/72536

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1768/72536
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Scope & Content:
Bengal Government are unable to meet the request of the Bombay Government for a supply of the cochineal insect but they inform Bombay that the Agent at the Cape of Good Hope could probably obtain a supply for them through the good offices of Baron Ludwig
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1835-Mar 1837
Extent:
1 file

5. IOR/F/4/1966/86247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1966/86247
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Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the experimental culture of certain plants and cochineal insects forwarded to Agra
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1841-Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file

6. IOR/P/3/38 Sep 1788 pp 258-354

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/3/38 Sep 1788 pp 258-354
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kyd regarding the cultivation of the prickly pear and cochineal insect; plus recording meteorological and agricultural information
Scope & Content:
No. 19, Letter from Lieutenant Coloneal Robert Kyd dated 08 Sep 1788. [pp 258-346] Kyd discusses the expedition of Thiery de Menonville to Guaxaca to retrieve samples of the prickly pear and cochineal insect. The letter contains extensive extracts from Nicolas-Joseph Thiery de Menonville, Traité...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
08 Sep 1788
Extent:
97 pages

7. IOR/P/3/53 2 Jul 1790 pp 350-72

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IOR/P/3/53 2 Jul 1790 pp 350-72
Title:
Letters to Government from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kyd reporting on various botanical subjects
Scope & Content:
Bengal Public Proceedings, 2nd July 1790: [pp 350-355] Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Robert Kyd to the Secretary to Government, dated Calcutta 25th June 1790, regarding the cultivation of Mawah and Teak, and reporting that there were upwards of one thousand plants of Spanish American Napaul [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1790
Extent:
1 file

8. IOR/P/241/15 23 Oct 1789 pp 2969-93

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IOR/P/241/15 23 Oct 1789 pp 2969-93
Title:
Nopalry Botanic Gardens; cochineal insects
Scope & Content:
(2969-73) Letter from James Anderson to Government of Madras, 20 Oct 1789, quoting Hugh Hunter’s account of cochineal insects transported from Barbados to Bristol in 1760 by being attached to living plants. Requests that Court of Directors in London be informed of this method of transportation. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Oct 1789
Extent:
1 file

9. IOR/Z/E/4/14/C1117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/Z/E/4/14/C1117
Title:
Cochineal Dye, manufacture of
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1834-1837
Extent:
1 entry

10. IOR/Z/E/4/16/A485

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/Z/E/4/16/A485
Title:
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, Cochineal insect, report on supply from Bourbon
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1842
Extent:
1 entry