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71. IOR/F/4/1957/85401

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1957/85401
Title:
Naturalising seeds and plants from other countries in India
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-3] Extract of Public letter, No.14 of 1841, from the Government of India, dated the 24th March 1841, regarding naturalising in India useful and desirable plants indigenous in other countries, describing the actions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1839-Mar 1841
Extent:
1 file

72. IOR/F/4/1787/73597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1787/73597
Title:
Rubber Tree of Assam: Report by William Griffith, Assistant Surgeon on deputation with the Bhutan mission
Scope & Content:
Griffith recounts his expedition with Lieutenant Vitel and Mr Brownlow to the forests where the rubber tree is found and findings. Introduces reader to the features of the forest, including sweet chestnuts, alder and artocarpus chaplaska, proceeds to comprehensive description of the rubber tree ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1837-5 Sep 1838
Extent:

16 folios

73. IOR/F/4/2123/100140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2123/100140
Title:
Proposal to abandon the cultivation and manufacture of tea in Assam on the part of the Government
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, including comments by Nathaniel Wallich.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1843-1845
Extent:
101 pages

74. IOR/F/4/1546/61487

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1546/61487
Title:
Proceedings connected with the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Calcutta
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract of a General letter to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Revenue Department, dated 10th February 1834, regarding the operations of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society. [pp 3-7] Extracts from the Proceedings of the Bengal Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1830-Feb 1834
Extent:
1 file

75. IOR/F/4/1732/69955

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1732/69955
Title:
The collection of seeds, bulbs and tuberous roots from the Himalayan range, and the interchange of botanical products between England and India
Scope & Content:
The collection contains the following papers: General Department letter, No.6 of 1838, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated Simla 16th August 1838, regarding an interchange between India and England of plants and vegetable productions indigenous in the one but rare or unk...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1838-Jan 1839
Extent:
1 file

76. IOR/F/4/2434/133384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2434/133384
Title:
Botanical writings of George Gardner, Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Ceylon
Scope & Content:
Table of contents. [p 1] Extract from a Despatch, No.17, from the Government of India, Home Department, to the Court of Directors, dated 23 April 1850, regarding the Government of India's willingness to subscribe to Dr Gardner’s elementary work on botany. [pp 3-14] Extract from the Proceedin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1850
Extent:
1 file

77. IOR/F/4/168/2950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/168/2950
Title:
Correspondence regarding an investigation by William Augustus Gott into the products and commerce of the Naini Tal and Almora Districts with special reference to the supply of timber and hemp seeds
Scope & Content:
[pp 1-2] Extract of Public letter from Bengal in the Department of the Ceded Provinces, dated 20th October 1803, regarding the appointment of W A Gott to carry out an investigation into the products of the countries situated beyond the Hills bordering on Rohilkhand, and of the commerce carried o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1802-Jun 1804
Extent:
1 file

78. IOR/F/4/2444/134239

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2444/134239
Title:
Medical garden at Darjeeling
Scope & Content:
Table of Contents. [pp 1-4] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors in the Public Department (No.16 of 1850), dated 17th April 1850, regarding a proposal to establish an experimental garden at Darjeeling for the cultivation of certain medicinal pla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1849-Apr 1850
Extent:
1 file

79. IOR/F/4/275/6129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/275/6129
Title:
Scope & Content:
Proposal of William Petrie that the Company's garden at Bangalore should be transferred to the Mysore Government. Dr Heyne's report on the garden 1800-1807.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1800-Oct 1807
Extent:
1 file

80. IOR/F/4/2219/110061

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2219/110061
Title:
Correspondence and reports on the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, including communications from Nathaniel Wallich and J McClelland
Scope & Content:
Accompanied by three plans of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, removed and catalogued separately at IOR/W/F/4/2219/110061.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846
Extent:
77 pages