File R&S 5856/1919: Improvement of the morphine content of Indian opium.
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Proposal to grant a duty allowance of Rs150 to Mr. H. M. Leake, with effect from the 1st June 1917, during the period he is employed on research work in connection with the improvement of the morphine content of Indian opium. Draft, despatch, sanctioning.
File R&S 7686/1919: 14 Imperial Forest Service probationers appointed in India.
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List of probationers: D. J. Atkinson F.W. Champion O.H.C. Shelswell H.F. Mooney I.M Forsyth W. Imrie W.E. Hodge E.L.P. Foster F.A.A. Hart R.H.L. Scott H.R.M.K. Law R.A. Morris P.J. Phillips H.L.R. Lloyd Jones Includes Personal Record Forms.
File R 875/1880 - Correspondence regarding the appointment of an Agricultural Instructor in the Poona College of Science, Bombay; and the establishment of a Central Forest School for the training of Native candidates as Forest Rangers
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Includes an extract from a report by Dr Cleghorn on the six candidates for examination in January 1881 for the Forest Service in India: Harold Martin Reed, George Homfray, Hugh Murray, Herbert Slade, Henry Jackson Aylmer and Albert Wyndham Lushington. Also included is a letter from the India O...
File R 113/1881 - Correspondence regarding a memorial from Newport White, a tea planter of the Hukanpukri Tea Estate, Dibrugarh, Assam, on the subject of his waste land grant in the Lakhimpur District
File R 362/1881 - Responses to a complaint of Messrs. Howard, Britannia Iron Works, Bedford, regarding the construction of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm
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File includes printed letters showing that the manufacture and sale of ploughs at the Cawnpore Government Farm is ‘merely experimental’
File R 637/1881 - Report of the Final Examination of Forest Students at Nancy, with related correspondence
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File includes papers showing final examination results, dated 30th-31st August 1881, of eight English students named ‘M H Clifford, F S Barker, J H Lace, J Rawbone, H G Hobart-Hampden, C E Brasier, C A G Lillingston and J S Carr’ who sat the Final Examination of Forest Students at Nancy
File R 800/1881 - Correspondence relating to crop experiments made in certain districts in the Bombay Presidency, accompanied with related maps and statistical statements
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File includes: Map showing the Survey numbers 137 and 188 of Kaligam village in Thalod Taluka of the Panch Mahals; extract from the map of Mudaheda village in Thalod Taluka (Survey no.121); map relating to Survey No.199 of Gamdi village in Thalod Taluka; map relating to Survey No.5 of Kharsana v...
File S&C 457/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding of correspondence relating to the proceeding of a department enquiry held to investigate the circumstances of the grounding of the ss. Orion in the River Hooghly on 22nd October 1879