Opium smuggling from the UK to China. Memorial of Messrs Alfred Holt & Co.
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Includes the International Opium Convention Report signed in 1912; copy of memorial by Messrs Alfred Holt & Co. on the subject of the smuggling of opium from the United Kingdom to China, USA, Canada, Australia, Strait Settlements and Hong Kong; copies of letters received from Agents in the F...
International Institute of Agriculture, Rome; Participation of India; Including - appointment of Delegates, and Terms. Instructions to Delegates, supply of Agenda of Meetings, & Payment of Travelling Expenses
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Papers relating to the appointment of Sir James Wilson, representative of the UK and India on the Permanent Committee of the International Agriculture Institute
Recognition of degrees of College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay by General Medical Council
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Includes a booklet on Bye-Laws and Regulations of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Bombay; as well as a list of the names and functions of the Executive Committee of the College.
Note from the French ambassador complaining of the increase of Indian import duties
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Papers dealing with the French Ambassador's complaint regarding high colonial customs duty on French brandies and wines. Includes a 1915 booklet on tariff schedules as well as a notification concerning the amendment of the tariffs in 1916.
File R 379/1880 - Letter from Dr B H Paul, of the Analytical Laboratory, Westminster, dated 30th April 1880, acknowledging receipt of the letter from the India Office of the 27th April 1880 requesting that he analyse samples of cinchona bark, and confirming that he had received the samples
File R 669/1881 - Letter from Dr B H Paul of the Analytical Laboratory, Westminster, dated 12th September 1881, informing the India Office that analysis of cinchona barks, referred to in a previous communication, will have immediate attention on receipt of samples from drug brokers Jenkin & Phillips