File R 974/1881 - Request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies for information as to the terms on which gold mining concessions have been granted in India
File R 987/1881 - Request for the provision of certain books, and a microscope with dissecting stage, to enable Mr Miller H Clifford to continue his studies in entomology
File R 972/1881 - Letter from Colonel G Pearson to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated Nancy 10th December 1881, regarding study plans and further assistance for the training of Mr M Clifford in entomology
File R 990/1881 - Return to Mrs H Abbot of testimonials and certificates regarding her son Mr F W Abbot, owing to a decision to withdraw his name from the Indian Forest Department examination list of candidates, on account of his defective vision
File R 997/1881 - Request of the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission to be supplied with 25 copies of the Regulations respecting Examinations for Appointments to the Forest Service of India
File R 998/1881 - Papers relating to the manner of disposing of quinine manufactured on account of the Secretary of State for India, and the proposed tinting of Government quinine to prevent theft
File R 964/1881 - Letter from Mr H G Reid, dated 3rd December, advising that authority has been received from the Treasury to supply 1000 copies of a work on “The Wild Silks” to the India Office free of cost
File R 968/1881 - Enquiry of Mr E W Prevost, 1 Cecily Hill, Cirencester, as to whether appointments are about to be made to lectureships in agricultural colleges in British India
File R 995/1881 - Proposed appointment of Mr E C Ozanne as Director of Agriculture, Bombay
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Prospectus of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, for the month of May 1881, with illustrations showing views of the college and surrounding areas
File R 975/1881 - Papers regarding the transmission to the India Office, per ss. Navarino, of a consignment of 317 bales of cinchona bark from the Government Plantations on the Nilgris
Scope & Content:
File includes detailed invoices of bales of bark forwarded from the Government Chinchona (Cinchona) Plantations, Dodabetta, Nilgris, during the official year 1881-82