File S&C 61/1880 - Correspondence regarding the transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum
Scope & Content:
File includes a letter from W T Thiselton Dyer, Royal Gardens, Kew, dated 12th January 1880, regarding a recent transference to Kew of the botanical collections from the Indian Museum, based upon Sir Joseph Hooker’s inspection of the collection
File S&C 68/1880 - Request of the Sub-Committee of the National Indian Association to have placed at their disposal copies of each Indian newspaper and periodical for the year 1880 for the use of natives of India studying in England
Scope & Content:
File includes a list of journals and newspapers received from India for 1880
File S&C 70/1880 - Letter from the Foreign Office regarding the presentation by the Emperor of Austria, to Dr King, Director of the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta, of a book by the (late) Emperor Maximilian of Mexico
File S&C 129/1880 - Foreign Office letter, dated 29th January 1880, and related minute paper, on the subject of the transmission of a report on Indian shawls and the consideration of a new general tariff
Scope & Content:
File includes an extract from Journal Officiel, dated 22nd January 1880
File S&C 157/1880 - Transmission to the Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, London, of a complete set of the Daily Weather Reports for the half year ending 31st December 1879
File S&C 188/1880 - Letter from the Science and Art Department, London, dated 9th February 1880, and related minute papers, regarding the preparation of a rough inventory of the collection of examples of Indian art and manufactures which were transferred to the South Kensington Museum
File S&C 289/1880 - Government of India covering letter, dated 4th February 1880, and related minute paper, regarding the forwarding to the India Office of 12 copies of a work entitled Hindu Materia Medica by U C Dutt
Scope & Content:
The work entitled Hindu Materia Medica is not present in the file
File S&C 315/1880 - Further Report on the Articles of Natives States for the Imperial Gazetteer of India, submitted by the Government of India Director-General of Gazetteers and Statistics and dated 8th March 1880
File S&C 348/1880 - Covering letter from the Science and Art Department, London, dated 15th March 1880, forwarding six copies, bound, of the rough inventory of the objects found in the India Museum when the collections were transferred to the South Kensington Museum
Scope & Content:
File consists of covering letter and related minute paper
File S&C 499/1880 - Covering letter from M Powis Bale and Co., London, and related minute papers, regarding the forwarding to the India Office of a copy of a work for patronage entitled Woodworking Machinery
Scope & Content:
File consists of covering letter and minute papers