Further papers regarding the promotion of tea cultivation in Assam - correspondence of the Tea Committee with the Government of India - decision that no grants of land should be made to private entrepreneurs until a general scheme for such leases has been agreed upon - 95 boxes of Assam tea shipp...
Table of Contents. [pp 1-3] Extract from Public letter No.35 of 1838 from the Government of India, dated 1st November 1838, requesting sanction of the appointments of Mr McCulloch to the situation of Superintendent of the Government Botanic Gardens under the Bombay Presidency, and Dr Gibson to...
Robert Wight writes (ff 4-12) to Government of Madras recommending convicts be employed as agricultural labourers on experimental farms. Wight notes inefficiency of existing tools used by labourers; proposes that prisoners work with European tools such as the wheelbarrow or the hoe. Recommends t...
Saharanpur Botanic Garden: Hugh Falconer’s report and related documents
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Main documents, in order of their appearance, include: (1) Covering letter dated 24 Jul 1839 from Lord Auckland, Governor General, to Court of Directors of East India Company, expressing confidence in Falconer’s report and reiterating some of the demands made therein, e.g. for medical plants fro...
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...
Further papers regarding the proposed exchange of vegetable products between Europe and India
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Table of Contents. Extracts from Public letters from the Government of India, 31st May to 4th December 1839, on the subject of the interchange of vegetable productions of India and Europe with a view to their naturalisation. Public Department letter, No.1 of 1839, to the Governor General of ...
Papers regarding the promotion of tea cultivation in Assam, Vol 2 (includes, on p 582, a list of Chinese labourers hired to work on the tea plantations, who were sent from China to Calcutta on the ship Isabella Robertson)
[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...
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...
Measures taken by the Bengal Government to promote the cultivation of tea in Assam - division of the tea establishments and barrees between the Government and the Assam Tea Company - proposed survey of the Assam tea tracts, etc.