File S&C 54/1880 - Despatch from Her Majesty’s Representative in Egypt, dated 20th December 1879, reporting on the health of Mecca pilgrims and sanitary conditions in Egypt, with related correspondence
File S&C 56/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers and related correspondence regarding requests for books submitted by the Bodleian Library, Oxford
File S&C 57/1880 - Request of Dr George Smith, CIE, for copies of his biographies on Dr. J Wilson and Dr. Duff to be distributed in India as prizes in colleges and as presents to public libraries
File S&C 59/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding to the Army Sanitary Commission of a copy of the Bombay Sanitary Report, 1878
Scope & Content:
The Bombay Sanitary Report, 1878, is not present in the file
File S&C 61/1880 - Correspondence regarding the transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum
Scope & Content:
File includes a letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Royal Gardens, Kew, dated 12th January 1880, regarding a recent transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum, based upon Sir Joseph Hooker’s inspection of the collection
File S&C 62/1880 - Request to the India Office that a duplicate voucher be signed and returned to the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, as early as possible on account of the original not being forthcoming
File S&C 65/1880 - Government of India request for the sanction of the continued deputation of Surgeon R Frost as Instructor to the Burma Veterinary School till May 1881
File S&C 66/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers regarding samples of Rhea fibre from India as prepared in trials held at Saharanpur, and a request that they may be tested and valued and the result reported