File S&C 511/1880 - Covering letter from the Home Office, London, to the Under Secretary of State for India, transmitting a copy of the General Orders and Regulations of the Metropolitan Police on the subject of smoke nuisance and a copy of the Liverpool Sanitary Act, Section 126
Scope & Content:
File consists of covering letter and related minute paper
File S&C 566/1880 - Papers regarding the agreement between the India Office and the Museum Committee of the Town Council of Glasgow, to provide botanic-economical collections of Indian products to Kelvin Grove Museum, Glasgow
Scope & Content:
File includes a summary (from the Town Clerks Office, Glasgow) of specimens received in December 1879 from the Director of Kew, together with details of the collection for Glasgow Industrial Museum
File S&C 578/1880 - Application of Publishers to the India Office, Messrs, W H Allen & Co., London, for patronage of a publication to be named “Official Papers”
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of specimen pages of “Précis of Official Papers, being Abstracts of All Parliamentary Returns, Session 1880,” published by Messrs. W H Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place, London
File S&C 588/1880 - Statements regarding items that were either lost or salvaged from the wreck of the ship Penguin
Scope & Content:
File includes a statement of Messrs. Furrer & Escher’s claim on Government stores salvaged ex. Penguin, a statement of Government stores of ironworks ex. Penguin despatched to Calcutta per ss. Eldorado, a list of Government stores lost or missing ex. Penguin and a memorandum of expenses incur...
File S&C 731/1880 - Directive of the Secretary of State for India for the transmission to the Admiralty of 50 copies of Chart No.29 for the Marine Survey, Calcutta, which were sent to India by mistake
File S&C 866/1880 - Submission for patronage, by Smith Elder & Co, 15 Waterloo Place, London, of The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, a work by Major-General Sir Frederic J Goldsmid
Scope & Content:
the work entitled The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram is not present in the file
File S&C 952/1880 - Letters regarding the distribution to learned societies of copies of Volumes One and Two of Baba Rajendralala Mittra’s work on the Antiquities of Orissa
Scope & Content:
File includes lists of learned societies in Europe to whom volumes one and two of the work on the Antiquities of Orissa, should be distributed (Volumes One and Two of Baba Rajendralala Mittra’s work on the Antiquities of Orissa are not present in the file)
File S&C 978/1880 - Papers regarding the forwarding from the Government of India to the Meteorological Office, London, of a complete set of Indian Daily Weather Reports for the half-year ending 30th June 1880
File S&C 1002/1880 - Application of the Bengal Asiatic Society for a copy of the work Ain-i-Akbari by H Blockmann, together with certain other publications
Scope & Content:
The other works requested were Antiquities of Orissa Volume Two by H Mitra, The Cave Temples of India by Fergusson and Burgess, and any available reports by Major-General Cunningham since Volume Eight
File S&C 1923/1880 - Request, submitted by Professor E H Giglioli, for certain works published by order of the Government of India, to be supplied for the use of the Zoological Museum, Florence
Scope & Content:
Works requested include a copy of the work entitled Fishes of India 2nd volume, a copy of the Report on Sea Fish and Fisheries, (Calcutta) 1878, a copy of the Report on Freshwater Fish and Fisheries, (Calcutta) 1871, and a copy of Western Yunnan Expeditions-Zoological Researches