Revenue, Judicial and Legislative Committee Papers
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Papers re introduction of quinine-yielding cinchona into India, 1836-1859; bound with papers re Madras Observatory, 1855 and Madras School of Art, 1854
Copy W S Stiven, Civil Assistant Surgeon at Moradabad, Report on the medical uses of berberry and its preparations (Agra: Secundra Orphan Press;1856). Comprising: Comments thereon by Dr J Grant, Superintending Surgeon at Agra Circule, dated 26 Nov 1855. Memorandum on Dr Stiven's Report... by Joh...
291: Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
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Correspondence showing the result of the measures taken by the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, since the augmentation of the Government grant, for the importation and distribution of agricultural seeds, and for the education of a class of native gardeners; with a table of content...
Cover page. Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract from a Narrative of the Proceedings of the Government of the North Western Provinces, General Department, for the 4th Quarter of 1859, dated 21st June 1860. [pp 3-41] Report on the workings of the Botanical Gardens of the North Western Provin...
Report by Thomas Anderson, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, on the damage sustained by the Garden in the cyclone of 5 October 1864. Includes lists of trees uprooted.
Table of Contents. Extract from Public letter from Fort St George, No.1 of 1858, dated 8th January 1858, regarding the income of the Ootacamund Horticultural Garden, and placing the Garden under the charge of Dr Cleghorn. Extract from Public letter to Fort St George, No.55 of 1854, dated 15t...
Proposal by Government of Madras to withdraw the patent already granted to William McIvor, Superintendent of Cinchona plantations, for mossing the cinchona tree, because grant will prevent the State from cultivating cinchona for the general benefit and will keep the price of quinine artificially ...
Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills
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Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in Nilgiri Hills for April, May, June, July, August and September. Include lists of people and locations where plants distributed; memo by William McIvor dated 22 June 1866, 'Observations on the germination and growth of seeds of the medicinal chinchona...
Salary claim by J Broughton, Chemist to the Government Cinchona plantations
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J Broughton submits a claim for arrears of pay, on the grounds that he was delayed in taking up his duties as Chemist because he contracted smallpox and was in quarantine. Authorised.
Reports on chinchona [cinchona] plantations in the Nilgiri Hills for October, November and December 1866. Reports include lists of those to whom chinchona plants distributed. File also includes letter from Clements Markham, dated 16 Jan 1866, to Revenue Department, Government of Madras, giving re...