File S&C 473/1880 - Covering letter from the Surveyor General’s Office, Calcutta, dated 24th March 1880, advising the Geographical Department, India Office, of the despatch of two copies of the General Report on the Operations of the Survey of India during 1878-79, and of the despatch 28 further copies of the report in due course
Scope & Content:
File consists of the covering letter and related Statistics and Commerce Department reference paper
File S&C 1232/1880 - Papers on the subject of the imposition of new Turkish pilgrim regulations before sufficient time had elapsed for those regulations to become known to Shipmasters
Scope & Content:
File includes despatches from Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople and the Acting British Consul at Jeddah relating to the imposition of fines at Jeddah Port upon the Masters of vessels for neglect of new sanitary regulations issued by the Health Board at Constantinople
File S&C 7/1881 - Correspondence regarding the complaint by Sir William Thomson of certain ommissions in the published volume of Tide Tables for Indian Ports for 1881
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of a "Preliminary Note on a new Tide-Predicter" by E Roberts, from the Proceedings of the Royal Society, No.197, 1879.
File R,S&C 17/1882 - Papers regarding the distribution of publications of the Indian Meteorological Department
Scope & Content:
Bill of lading for 3 cases containing the publications of the Indian Meteorological Department for distribution to scientific societies in Europe, America &c. List of addresses to where the packages are to be sent. Correspondence regarding reciept of these deliveries.
Scheme for the formation of an audit federation in Bihar and Orissa to conduct the audit and supervision of the transactions of cooperative institutions in the province
Scope & Content:
Includes statement of cost of staff for Audit and Inspection , statement of existing grading in Provincial Civil Service, and statement of proposition for revision of establishments.
File R&S 1241/1920: Action to give effect to the Peace Treaty in India- Order in Council.
Scope & Content:
Includes printed: First Report of the Controller of the Clearing Office (Germany) and the Administrator of Austrian and Bulgarian Property, London: Printed and published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921 (pp.1-31)
File R&S 1274/1920: Research bearing upon the well-being and conditions of lives of natives and residents of the United Kingdom in the tropical climates.
Scope & Content:
Includes "Note on Housing in the Tropics" by Andrew Balfour (pp.1-7) and "Notes on Tropical Climate and Health" by Leonard Hill (pp.1-7) with following summary folio dated 20th Mar 1920.