File S&C 75/1880 - Submission by of Messrs. Trübner & Co., London, of miscellaneous essays relating to India by Brian Houghton Hodgson, for the patronage of the Secretary of State for India
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The essays by Brian Houghton Hodgson are not present in the file
File S&C 174/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding a directive by the Secretary of State for India to forward a letter and an enclosure from the Government of India relating to a charge preferred at Colombo against the Master and Mate of the British barque Clan Alpine, a vessel scuttled on one of the Maldive Islands
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The letter and enclosure are not present in the file
File S&C 271/1880 - Request of the Director-General of Stores, India Office Store Department, dated 6th October 1881, for the loan of copies of despatches
Scope & Content:
The despatches, or a list of the despatches, are not included in the file
File S&C 349/1880 - Presentation by Viscount Cranbrook to the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, London, of a copy of W W Hunter’s Statistical Account of Assam in two volumes
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The Statistical Account of Assam is not present in the file
File S&C 473/1880 - Covering letter from the Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta, dated 24th March 1880, advising the Geographical Department, India Office, of the despatch of two copies of the General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India during 1878-79, and of the despatch 28 further copies of the report in due course
Scope & Content:
File consists of the covering letter and related Statistics and Commerce Department reference paper
File S&C 1232/1880 - Papers on the subject of the imposition of new Turkish pilgrim regulations before sufficient time had elapsed for those regulations to become known to Shipmasters
Scope & Content:
File includes despatches from Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople and the Acting British Consul at Jeddah relating to the imposition of fines at Jeddah Port upon the Masters of vessels for neglect of new sanitary regulations issued by the Health Board at Constantinople
File S&C 7/1881 - Correspondence regarding the complaint by Sir William Thomson of certain ommissions in the published volume of Tide Tables for Indian Ports for 1881
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of a "Preliminary Note on a new Tide-Predicter" by E Roberts, from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No.197, 1879.
File S&C 61/1880 - Correspondence regarding the transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum
Scope & Content:
File includes a letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Royal Gardens, Kew, dated 12th January 1880, regarding a recent transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum, based upon Sir Joseph Hooker’s inspection of the collection
File S&C 68/1880 - Request of the Sub-Committee of the National Indian Association to have placed at their disposal copies of each Indian newspaper and periodical for the year 1880 for the use of natives of India studying in England
Scope & Content:
File includes a list of journals and newspapers received from India for 1880