File R 634/1881 - Correspondence regarding a mistake where cabbage and carrot seed, from the India Office Revenue and Statistics Department, were sent in ounces instead of quarts to the Saharánpur Botanical Gardens, North-Western Provinces, India
File R 637/1881 - Report of the Final Examination of Forest Students at Nancy, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
File includes papers showing final examination results, dated 30th-31st August 1881, of eight English students named ‘M H Clifford, F S Barker, J H Lace, J Rawbone, H G Hobart-Hampden, C E Brasier, C A G Lillingston and J S Carr’ who sat the Final Examination of Forest Students at Nancy
File R 638/1881 - Report on the six first year students at the School of Forestry at Nancy, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
File includes papers, dated 31st August 1881, showing examination results of six English students named ‘Murray, Homfray, Porter, Lushington Reed’ and ‘Slade’ for the First Year Examination of Forest Students at Nancy
File R 639/1881 - Enquiry of Mr Hall of 30 New Road, Brighton, Sussex, as to study options for acceptance as a candidate into the Forest Department of India
File R 640/1881 - Correspondence regarding arrangements for the distribution of Mr T Wardle’s pamphlet The Wild Silks of India on completion of its publication
File R 642/1881 - Remarks by Colonel G Pearson on the results of the examinations of the first year pupils of the School of Forestry at Nancy, and related correspondence with Mr W G Pedder, Secretary to the Revenue Department
Scope & Content:
File includes a letter from Colonel G Pearson, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 4th September 1881, commenting favourably on the character and abilities of first year pupil named ‘Slade’ of the School of Forestry at Nancy, who achieved the lowest examination marks out of the six E...
File R 643/1881 - Letter from Colonel G Pearson, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 4th September 1881, expressing views as to the posting of English pupils of the School of Forestry at Nancy who are going to India in the autumn of 1881
File R 644/1881 - Letter from Colonel G Pearson, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 3rd September 1881, submitting a quarterly bill of £1.12s.4d. for postage and telegrams on the public service
File R 646/1881 - Papers relating to the proposed abolition of the salt preventative line in Guzerat and consequent arrangements with the native States of Kathiawar and Kutch
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of Government of India Foreign Department letter No.99 of 1881, dated 12th August 1881, containing a draft agreement with the Chiefs of State of Kathiawar on the regulating of salt production in Kathiawar
File R 647/1881 - Covering letter, dated 16th August 1881, forwarding copies of Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Bombay Government in the Revenue Department (Miscellaneous, Registration and Lands etc.) for the past month