File R 1026/1881 - Letter of C H Hobart-Hampden, Clifton, Bristol, dated 28th December 1881, as to not having received notice from the India Office of the day on which he is to present himself at the Indian Forest examination
File R 1010/1881 - Memo by the Accountant General dated 17th January 1882, and related papers, regarding the case of the pay of Surgeon Aitchison whilst on special duty in England
File R 1024/1881 - Madras Court of Wards Report for the year 1879-80
Scope & Content:
File includes Proceedings of the Madras Government, dated 13th October 1881, No.1517, embodying and reviewing the Report of the Court of Wards on the administration of the estates of incapacitated proprietors under their charge, for Fasli 1289, ending 30th June 1880; and a copy of Revenue Despat...
File R 1012/1881 - Letter from P A S Sheppard, 8 Belsize Avenue, Hampstead, dated 21st December 1881, requesting particulars of the forthcoming examination of the Forest Department of India and a list of subjects in which it is necessary to qualify
File R 1015/1881 - Enquiry of Mr A Heath, Vienna, asking if it is possible for an Austrian subject to obtain an appointment in the Forest Department of India
File R 1023/1881 - Arrangements of the India Office for certain Indian Forest Department candidates to attend individual Indian Medical Board examinations of January 1882
Scope & Content:
File includes letters of acknowledgement to the India Office from candidates that include Augustus B Urmston, Archibald Douglas Bertram, Cecil S Smith, Alfred Gradon, P A S Sheppard, Laurence Mercer, Arthur Edward Hinden, Henry Theodore Dempster Sweet, A L Mc Intire, Cyril Herbert Hobart-Hampden,...
File R 1025/1881 - Papers on the subject of leased forests of Busahir in the Sutlej Valley of the Punjab
Scope & Content:
File includes the printed paper entitled Suggestions regarding theManagement of the Leased Forests of Busahir in the Sutlej Valley of the Punjab, by D Brandis, Inspector General of Forests to the Government of India, dated 1st October 1881
File R 1006/1881 - Progress Report of Forest Administration in Coorg for 1881-82, by F B Dickinson, Assistant Conservator of Forests, with related papers
Scope & Content:
File includes Sketch Map (actual size 85cm x 85cm) of the proposed Forest Reserve and the Demarcation Line (T. Rangaswami Pillai)
File R 1030/1881 - Papers by Frederic F Hallet, F.L.S. on the development of cereals, with related correspondence
Scope & Content:
File includes the following papers by Frederic F Hallet: Essay on ‘“Pedigree” in Wheat as a Means of Increasing the Crop’ (printed by W Clowes and Sons, London, dated 1862) accompanied with Section D (Zoology and Botany), dated Exeter 21st August 1869, on ‘The Law of the Development of Cereals’...
File R 1036/1881 - Letters from Alistair Sinclair, to Sir George Campbell, late Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, on the subject of opium in India, and a proposal to restrict its export to China
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File includes a copy of The Grampian Hymn for children, by James Macdonald (Loch Rannoch, October 1881)