File R 185/1880 - Draft letter to Colonel Pearson at the School of Forestry at Nancy regarding the six candidates who had been nominated for training for the Indian Forest Department, and a draft letter of introduction
File R 206/1880 - Report on the Administration of the Salt Department in the Lower Provinces of Bengal for the year 1878-79 (Calcutta, 1879), together with a copy of the orders of the Local Government thereon and related correspondence
File R 208/1880 - Request for seeds produced by the Mahogany trees of the West Indian species in the neighbourhood of Bombay to be sent to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
File R 214/1880 - Letter from Mr Thisetton Dyer, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to Sir Louis Mallet, India Office, dated 1st March 1880, regarding the opinion of Sir Joseph Hooker as to the manner in which Surgeon Major J E T Aitchison had performed his duties
File R 246/1880 - Letter from the Civil Service Commission to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 12th March 1880, regarding money payable on examination by candidates for the Indian Forest Service
File R 277/1880 - Letter from the Government of India, Home, Revenue and Agricultural Department, dated 3rd March 1880, No.4 of 1880, informing the India Office that three copies of Part 3, Volume V of the Indian Forester had been despatched by book post
File R 302/1880 - Draft despatch from the India Office to Sir Joseph Hooker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, dated 16th April 1880, reporting the safe arrival of cinchona plants at Mungpoo
File R 327/1880 - Letter from the Saxon Forest Academy at Tharandt, dated 8th April 1880, thanking the Secretary of State for India for a collection of Indian woods sent by Dr Brandis from Calcutta