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41. IOR/F/4/1789/73724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1789/73724
Title:
Botanic garden at Nirguri, Poona
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp A-H] Letter from the Government of Bombay, Territorial Department, No.21 of 1838, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 6th September 1838, regarding the formation of a Botanical Garden in the Ahmednuggur [Ahmednagar] Collectorate. [p I] Extract fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1836-Sep 1838
Extent:
1 file

42. IOR/F/4/1815/74864

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1815/74864
Title:
Employment of convicts in agriculture
Scope & Content:
Robert Wight writes (ff 4-12) to Government of Madras recommending convicts be employed as agricultural labourers on experimental farms. Wight notes inefficiency of existing tools used by labourers; proposes that prisoners work with European tools such as the wheelbarrow or the hoe. Recommends t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1836-Aug 1837
Extent:

9 folios

43. IOR/F/4/2188/106999

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2188/106999
Title:
Dr McClelland to examine the scientific collections of the late William Griffith
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845-1846
Extent:
34 pages

44. IOR/F/4/1964/86089

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1964/86089
Title:
Experimental cotton farms in Madras
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding the experimental cotton farms established in the Madras presidency under the supervision of the American cotton farmers, overseen by Robert Wight, Superintendent of Cotton Farms. Government of India proposes that farmers receive same benefits as American cotton farmers in Bengal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1842-Jul 1842
Extent:
1 file

45. IOR/F/4/2068/95036

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2068/95036
Title:
Cultivation of senna in the Deccan
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, mainly between the Revenue Department and the Medical Board of the Government of Bombay, re the proposal by Alexander Gibson, Superintendent of Dapuri Botanic Garden, to encourage the cultivation of senna in the Deccan. Gibson proposes that, as an incentive to cultivators to prod...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1843-Nov 1843
Extent:
1 file

46. IOR/F/4/2534/146952

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2534/146952
Title:
Teak forests of India
Scope & Content:
Papers forwarding Dr Hugh Falconer's report on the teak forests of India
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 file

47. IOR/F/4/1049/28762

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1049/28762
Title:
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding various public works at Bombay and elsewhere - proposal that the temporary bungalows at Malabar Point should be converted into a marine villa for the use of the Governor - purchase of the late Colonel Ford's house at Dapuri near Poona as a summer residence for the Governor - esta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1813-Oct 1828
Extent:
1 file

48. IOR/F/4/2533/146763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2533/146763
Title:
Dapuri Botanic Garden
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [p 1] Letter (No.73 of 1852) from the Government of Bombay, Territorial Department, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated Bombay Castle 22nd May 1852, regarding Dr Gibson's supplementary report on the Botanical Gardens in Bombay, and his request for a ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1852-Mar 1853
Extent:
1 file

49. IOR/F/4/1478/58077

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1478/58077
Title:
Board's Collection
Scope & Content:
A small establishment is set up to look after the teak forests of Tenasserim, superintend the felling of timber etc. - observations of Nathaniel Wallich on the forests of Martaban and Tenasserim (pp 8-13), etc. Jul.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1831-Apr 1834
Extent:
1 file

50. IOR/F/4/1950/84888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1950/84888
Title:
Flax cultivation in India
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Letter from the Government of India, Revenue Department, No.24, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 29th November 1841, regarding the cultivation of flax in the Provinces under the Bengal and Agra Governments, and forwarding a report by the Ag...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1840-Nov 1841
Extent:

1 file