File R 1026/1881 - Letter of C H Hobart-Hampden, Clifton, Bristol, dated 28th December 1881, as to not having received notice from the India Office of the day on which he is to present himself at the Indian Forest examination
File R 1028/1881 - Letter from Dr Kirk, 12 Strathmore Gardens, Hampden Hill, and related minute paper, regarding the failure of the poppy crop in Mozambique
File R 1029/1881 - Letter of Jenkin and Phillips, Drug Brokers, Lime Street, London, dated 30th December 1881, to the Secretary of State for India, regarding the handing to Mr Thomas Whiffen of a delivery order for 402 bales and eleven cases of cinchona bark shipped per ss. Booldana at Madras
File R 1030/1881 - Papers by Frederic F Hallet, F.L.S. on the development of cereals, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
File includes the following papers by Frederic F Hallet: Essay on ‘“Pedigree” in Wheat as a Means of Increasing the Crop’ (printed by W Clowes and Sons, London, dated 1862) accompanied with Section D (Zoology and Botany), dated Exeter 21st August 1869, on ‘The Law of the Development of Cereals’...
File R 1031/1881 - Letter from the Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, to the India Office, dated 27th December 1881, conveying acknowledgments for a contribution on the subject leased forests, that was made to the Library at the Royal Botanic Garden
File R 1036/1881 - Letters from Alistair Sinclair, to Sir George Campbell, late Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, on the subject of opium in India, and a proposal to restrict its export to China
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of The Grampian Hymn for children, by James Macdonald (Loch Rannoch, October 1881)
File R 1037/1881 - Letter from Kristodas Pal, Secretary of the British Indian Association, Calcutta, to A Mackenzie, Officiating Secretary to the Government of Bengal Revenue Department, dated 18th April 1881, regarding two Bills for the amendment of the Rent-Law