File R 715/1881 - Colonial Office and Foreign Office letters, with Revenue Department minute papers, relating to a proposed undertaking for the collection of specimens of the India rubber plant from Zanzibar, with the object of cultivating and distributing the plants to the colonies
File R 720/1881 - Minute paper referring to ‘the reconstitution of establishments in Coorg when its administration shall be severed from that of Mysore on the restoration of that Province to the native ruler’ as the only subject noted in the Proceedings of the Chief Commissioner of Coorg for February, March and April of 1881
File R 722/1881 - Candidature of Arthur Litton Mc Intire for nomination to a junior appointment in the Forest Department, India, at the examination to be held in January 1882
Scope & Content:
File includes letters from the father of Arthur Litton Mc Intire and a certificate registering the birth of Arthur Litton Mc Intire as 9th March 1864
File R 723/1881 - Letters from Thomas Whiffen of Lombard Road, Battersea, with related reference papers, regarding quantities of quinine and other products obtained from 250 bales of bark worked by order of the Secretary of State for India
File R 726/1881 - Government of India Home Department Despatch No.19 of 1881, dated 10th September 1881, communicating remarks on the subject of the professional education in France of English candidates for the Forest Department in India, with related letters and minute papers
File R 728/1881 - Communication from the Government of Bengal, No.779T., dated 19th July 1881, and enclosures, reporting on the relative consumption of sea-borne salt and up-country salt in the Province of Behar
Scope & Content:
File includes statement showing the wholesale price per 100 Maunds, and the retail price per Seer, of different descriptions of salt between the months of October 1880 and May 1881 in the principal marts of the Behar Districts