File R 270/1881 - Proposed separation of the Revenue paid Agricultural Departments from the Home Office, and the appointment of an additional secretary
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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
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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
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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
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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 S&C 1142/1880 - Letter from the Medical Society’s Library, Owens College, Manchester, dated 29th September 1880, acknowledging the receipt of Indian Reports and requesting any earlier reports
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File includes a complete list of the Indian Reports that have already been received by the Medical Society’s Library, Owens College, Manchester, and are still in their possession
File S&C 1156/1880 - Papers regarding the results of consultations with engineering firms regarding the possibility of a simple and inexpensive design for tea compressing machinery
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File includes a report on tea presses, by Major General Hyde, dated 15th December 1880, and a specification of a tea pressing plant from the Hyraulic Engineering Company Ltd., dated 4th December 1880
File S&C 1475/1880 - Copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople
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In the Despatch, the Ambassador expressed his opinion in favour of the abolition of the quarantine of 48 hours observation at Thor in healthy times, which was imposed on all vessels arriving there with pilgrims.
File S&C 178/1881 - Papers regarding the proposed establishment of meteorological observatories in connection with India
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The file includes: A letter from Sir Rawson W Rawson, dated 26th January 1881, urging the establishment of a meteorological observatory at Barbados. A letter from Maxwell Hall of Jamaica, dated 12th May 1880, giving a sketch of his proposed system of West Indian storm warnings Article in Nature...
Loss incurred by the Strangers' Home for Asiatics in respect of an advance made to three Indian seamen
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Papers relating to the appeal made by the Secretary to the Strangers Home for compensation of dishonoured allotment notes paid to them by three Indian seamen sailing on the Steamer, the Edmund Ironside which was later condemned as unseaworthy. Lascar Nominal Lists.
Relaxation of Art. 478 (a) C.S.R. in favour of certain officers of the Registration Dept. Bengal
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Papers dealing with the proposed exemption of certain officers of the Registration Department in Bengal, from reduction of pension under article 478 (a) of the Civil Service Regulations.