File R 469/1881 - Enquiries of W G M Rolston of Saltash, Cornwall, and Cecil Jones of Edinburgh, regarding the nature of the questions contained in the entrance examination papers for the Forest Service in India
File R 470/1881 - Enquiry of Mr R Lloyd of Upper Tooting, Surrey, as to whether it is proposed to establish new experimental farms in India, and whether there is any prospect of re-employment in services of experimental agriculture
Scope & Content:
File includes printed paper showing extracts of testimonials, dated 1871, 1877 and 1878, from officers under whom which Mr R Lloyd served in India
File R 471/1881 - Letter of Mr Gibson, dated 13th June 1881, informing the India Office that he assumed charge of his duties under the Egyptian Government on 4th June 1881
File R 472/1881 - Minute papers and a copy of a telegram form the Viceroy, dated 21st June 1881 (Simla), regarding a request for a registrar to be appointed to the new Government of India Agricultural Department
File R 473/1881 - Printed correspondence, and related minute paper, regarding steps taken for the disposal of the balance of the Cotton Frauds Fund in the Bombay Presidency
File R 478/1881 - Transmission and receipt of copies of sets of rules for the guidance of the Superintendent, now Deputy Commissioner of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, accompanied with the Southal Police Rules
Scope & Content:
Copies of the sets of rules are not present in the file
File R 479/1881 - Letter from Dr B H Paul, of the Analytical Laboratory, Westminster, to the India Office, dated 24th June 1881, promising that analysis of cinchona barks shall have his immediate attention on the receipt of the samples
File R 480/1881 - Minute paper and related messages referring to Government of India assent for Mr C Buck to delay his return for another week to enable him to visit experimental farms in the UK