File R 885/1881 - Request of Professor Thiselton Dyer, Royal Gardens, Kew, for the Government of India to send specimens of Indian cinchona to the United States National Museum in Washington
File R 889/1881 - Papers on the subject of keeping liquor shops open all night in the Hyderabad Assigned Districts
Scope & Content:
File includes the Annual Report on the Excise Administration of the Hyderabad Assigned Districts for the year 1879-80, with a review of the Report by the Resident at Hyderabad, and related printed correspondence
File R 893/1881 - Report by Colonel R H Beddome, dated Ootacamund, 3rd October 1881, regarding a visit to the Chinchona (cinchona) Plantations in Ceylon, and related observations on the Report
File R 896/1881 - Application from the Crown Colonies for 40Ibs. of cinchona febrifuge in 1lb tins to be sent to their address at Downing Street, London