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5941. IOR/L/PS/18/B152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B152
Title:
British Museum report on the Persian Gulf as a possible area for successful sponge fisheries. (Pol. No. 1718/05)
Scope & Content:
Report prepared by Randolph Kirkpatrick of the British Museum (Natural History) in November 1905 into the commercial potential of sponge fisheries in the Persian Gulf. The report is organised into small sections, as follows: Conditions favourable to the growth of commercial sponges; Unfavourabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1905
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

5942. IOR/L/PS/18/B153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B153
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic. The memorandum is divided up as follows: 1. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

5943. IOR/L/PS/18/B154

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B154
Title:
'MEMORANDUM. Grant of French Flags to Muscat Dhows.'
Scope & Content:
This memorandum by Ronald William Graham, Foreign Office, London, was printed for the use of the Foreign Office in January 1906 and concerns the grant of French flags to Muscat dhows. The memorandum outlines the background of key relevant treaties: the 1844 Treaty between France and Muscat gran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1906
Extent:

4 folios

5944. IOR/L/PS/18/B155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B155
Title:
Relations of the British Government with the Tribes of the Aden Hinterland
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum detailing the relations of the British Government with the tribes of the Aden hinterland by Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie, India Office, Secretary to the Political and Secret Department. It discusses the following: boundary lines, difficulties with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

5945. IOR/L/PS/18/B156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B156
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Aden Frontier Delimitation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum giving an account of the Aden frontier delimitation, and treaty relations with the Aden tribes from 1873. Compiled by the Foreign Office, 11 December 1905. It discusses the following: tribes with whom Her Majesty's Government has direct relations; boundary disp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

5946. IOR/L/PS/18/B158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B158
Title:
Aden Policy
Scope & Content:
The file consists of two notes by members of the Council of India, William Lee-Warner and Hugh Shakespear Barnes, on the Government of India's Letter No 119 dated 9 August 1906 (L/PS/10/74: Pol No 1455/06), concerning policy in Aden. William Lee-Warner's note opposes the Government of India's p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1906
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

5947. IOR/L/PS/18/B160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B160
Title:
‘Baghdad Railway.’
Scope & Content:
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1906
Extent:

4 folios

5948. IOR/L/PS/18/B164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B164
Title:
British relations with the Wahabees
Scope & Content:
Printed report communicated by the India Office and printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The report concerns British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabi] emirs, from 1904 to 1907, the growing influence of Ibn Sa‘ūd [Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal] and the British pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1908
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

5949. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

5950. IOR/L/PS/18/B166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166
Title:
Memorandum respecting British interests in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled on 12 February 1908 and contains information compiled by the India Office on British political and commercial interests in the Persian Gulf, including Pearl Fisheries (folios 58v-63); General Trade Statistics and German Comp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 file (66 folios)

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