File R 961/1881 - Request of Major F F Hallett for a copy of a minute, by the Governor Bombay, dated 10th January 1869, proposing the adoption of “Halletts Pedigree System” for the purpose of improving the indigenous cotton
Scope & Content:
File includes a leaflet regarding The Brighton Health Congress and The Domestic and Scientific Exhibition, to be held in the Royal Pavilion, Dome, and Museum, on 12th-13th December 1881
File R 965/1881 - Covering letter to the Under Secretary of State for India, London, forwarding two copies of the Report on the Revenue Administration of the British Burma for the year 1880-81 accompanied with the Chief Commissioner’s resolution
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The report and resolution are not present in the file
File S&C 3/1880 - Correspondence on the subject of the employment of non-British vessels for the conveyance of Government cargo to India
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File includes a specimen copy of a (blank) Tender for Freight and Conveyance of Stores, with a description of the 21 Conditions for Freight of Stores attached to the tender
File S&C 107/1880 - Papers relating to sets of Indian medals for preservation in the Museum at the India Office and for presentation to local museums in England
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File includes lists of medals and decorations conferred on the armies of India
File S&C 261/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute paper regarding the forwarding to the Board of Trade of a copy of the Proceedings of the Court of Enquiry held to investigate the circumstances attending the fouling and sinking of the red spit buoy at the entrance of the Rangoon River by the ss. Maharani
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The Proceedings of the Court of Enquiry are not present in the file
File S&C 290/1880 - Request of the Librarian, India Office, to be supplied with copies of the work entitled Handbook of the Birouki Language, and of any publications on, or printed in, that language
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The work entitled Handbook of the Birouki Language is not present in the file
File S&C 379/1880 - Transmission to the General Register Office, Charlemont House, Dublin, of a copy of the last published Madras Sanitary Report for the year 1878
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The Madras Sanitary Report for 1878 is not present in the file
File S&C 399/1880 - Request of Richard Strachan, 11 Offord Road, London, to forward copies of a paper on the Diurnal Range of the Barometer and to have his name placed on the list of persons supplied with the work entitled Indian Meteorological Memoirs
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File includes 7 copies of the work entitled The Diurnal Range of Atmospheric Pressure, by Richard Strachan, F.M.S. [from the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society, for January 1880]
File S&C 405/1880 - Transmission to the Board of Trade of the Proceedings of Courts of Inquiry regarding the loss of the native brig Neela Chellum and the stranding of the British barque Charlie Palmer, and a request for the return of the Proceedings to the Board of Trade Marine Department when done with
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The Proceedings of Courts of Inquiry are not present in the file