File R 947/1881 - Correspondence and minute papers regarding the distribution of copies of a Report, by Mr E McA. Moir, Deputy Conservator of Forests, on his visit to the forests of the Hautes and Basses Alpes in France
File R 975/1881 - Papers regarding the transmission to the India Office, per ss. Navarino, of a consignment of 317 bales of cinchona bark from the Government Plantations on the Nilgris
Scope & Content:
File includes detailed invoices of bales of bark forwarded from the Government Chinchona (Cinchona) Plantations, Dodabetta, Nilgris, during the official year 1881-82
File R 606/1880 - Reports on the operations of the Survey Department in the Bombay Presidency for 1878-79
Scope & Content:
Includes the General Annual Progress Report on the Surveys of the Bombay Presidency for the year ending 31st October 1879; and progress reports for the same period for the revenue surveys in Sind, Gujarat, Poona and Nasik, Ratnagiri, and Southern Mahratta Country
File R 270/1881 - Proposed separation of the Revenue paid Agricultural Departments from the Home Office, and the appointment of an additional secretary
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of printed letter No.19 dated 14th March 1881 conveying the views and recommendations of the Government of India on the proposals of the Famine Commission contained in certain paragraphs of the second part of their Report for the institution of an Agricultural Department in I...
File R 313/1881 - Annual Indent for seeds for the supply of soldiers gardens in northern India
Scope & Content:
File includes a list (undated) of vegetable seeds for soldiers’ gardens in northern India and a letter from the Superintendent of Government Botanical Gardens, North-Western Provinces, regarding the arrival of seeds too late for sowing, and the failure of a supply of pea seeds
File R 761/1881 - Revision of arrangements for the management of the Bhil tribe in the Khandesh district
Scope & Content:
File includes a memorandum on the Bhil tribes of Khandesh, compiled principally from Captain Graham’s Historical Sketch of the Tribes of Khandesh, The Gazetteer of Khandesh and the Annual Reports by the Bhil Agents
File R 802/1881 - Pamphlet, by Thomas Wardle on the Wild Silks of India, and related minute papers
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Handbook of the Collection Illustrative of the Wild Silks of India, in the Indian Section of the South Kensington Museum, with a Catalogue of the Collection and Numerous Illustrations, by Thomas Wardle (London: HMSO 1881)
File R 302/1881 - Draft of a letter to L J K Brace informing him that a passage to Calcutta has been secured for him on board the ss. City of Venice, sailing from Liverpool
File R 68/1880 - Annual report on the administration of estates under the Talukdari Settlement Officer in the Bombay Presidency for the year ending 31st July 1879
Scope & Content:
The report contains lists of the estates, including the names of the holder of the estates, and a list of civil suits conducted by or on behalf of the Talukdari Settlement Officer