File S&C 970/1880 - Submission to the India Office, by Major H G Raverty, Bombay Army (retired), of Part Two of the Third Section of his “Notes on Afghanistan”
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The Notes on Afghanistan are not present in the file
File S&C 1031/1880 - Application of Mr B F Stevens, 4 Trafalgar Square, London, to consult the early records of the East India Company
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File includes a copy of a publication, consisting of 7 pages, entitled The Platform of the Hercules Club and Prospectus of its Publications (printed by Charles Whittingham for the Hercules Club, 1877)
File S&C 1050/1880 - Letter from the Board of Trade forwarding for transmission a copy of the Report of the Formal Investigation into the supposed loss of the sailing ship Essex with a cargo of rice, and calling attention to the improper storage of the cargo, the extreme hast with which these vessels are sometimes laden, and the nature of the ventilation
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The Report of the Formal Investigation is not present in the file
File S&C 1115/1880 - Papers relating to discussions at the Egyptian Board of Health as to measures to be adopted for giving effect in Egypt to recently passed Turkish pilgrim traffic rules
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File includes a report by Dr J Mackie on Turkish Traffic Pilgrim Rules, dated 2nd August 1880 (Alexandria)
File S&C 1188/1880 - Request for sanction for the distribution of copies of Volumes 7 and 8 of the work People of India, received from the later Director of the India Museum, Dr Forbes Watson, and also the remaining copies of Volumes 1 to 6 of the work which remain in stock
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File includes a list showing the manner in which copies of Volumes 1 to 8 of the work People of India has been distributed
File S&C 1254/1880 - Letter to the India Office, from Mr A Derinck of Lille, forwarding a small sample of an unknown vegetable fibre for identification
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The vegetable fibre sample is not present in the file
File S&C 1263/1880 - Application of Mr H C des Tosses, Paris, for permission to have access to original records held at the India Office entitled ‘Law Case No.31, dated 3rd March 1752,’ on the subject of an allegation by Colonel G B Malleson of bribery against the French Naval Officer La Bourdonnais
Scope & Content:
File includes minute papers noting detailed observations in connection with Law Case No.31, dated 3rd March 1752, with references to the activities of the English and French naval fleets, the character and activities of the French Naval Officer La Bourdonnais, and the bribery allegation against him