File S&C 16/1881 - Draft letter to agents regarding the sale price of volume 3 of the Rajputana Gazetteer
Scope & Content:
Includes a letter from the Royal Geographical Society, dated 6th January 1881, acknowledging the present to it of a copy of volume 3 of the Rajputana Gazetteer
File S&C 170/1881 - Request from Mrs Grace Bryden, London, to be furnished with a copy of the correspondence with the Government of India relative to the pay attached to the appointment of the Statistical Officer
Scope & Content:
Includes a memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on reports by Dr Bryden bringing up the Statistical History of the European Army in India, and of the Native Army and Jail population of Bengal, to 1876
File R 238/1880 - Minute paper listing Punjab Proceedings for December 1879 which were regarded as being of particular interest
Scope & Content:
Includes an extract from a letter of Rev J M Wade, dated Srinagar, Kashmir, January 26, 1880, to J Muir, regarding the condition of the poor at a time of famine
File R 311/1881 - Enquiry from H W Kolle of Egremont, Tulse Hill, London, for information regarding particulars relating to salary and pensions of officers of the Indian Forest Department
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of an official paper, by the Forest Department in India, showing particulars respecting the selection of candidates for nomination to junior appointments in January 1880
File R 478/1881 - Transmission and receipt of copies of sets of rules for the guidance of the Superintendent, now Deputy Commissioner of the Hill Tracts of Chittagong, accompanied with the Southal Police Rules
Scope & Content:
Copies of the sets of rules are not present in the file
File R 1001/1881 - Correspondence on the subject of the imposition of an additional assessment on lands within a certain range of irrigation, together with a copy of a minute by E W Ravenscroft, CSI, dated 31st October 1881, on the subject
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of Bombay Act No.VII of 1879 (an Act to provide for irrigation in the Bombay Presidency) (Government Central Press, Bombay)
File S&C 344/1880 - Letter of Trϋbner & Co., American, European and Oriental Literary Agency, Ludgate Hill, London, dated 13th March 1880, forwarding a copy of each of the two works for patronage entitled Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers, by Dr Muir, and Selections from the Koran, by E W Lane, revised by S L Poole
Scope & Content:
The two forwarded works are not present in the file
File S&C 372/1880 - Correspondence relating to Turkish pilgrim traffic rules and additional articles to the rules inserted by the Sultan directed against the traffic in slaves
Scope & Content:
File includes a copy of the Native Passenger Ships Act, 1876 (Government Central Press, No.609, dated 7th April 1876)
File S&C 610/1880 - Papers relating to a report by Dr Forbes Watson on Bullock power machines
Scope & Content:
File includes a Schedule of Accounts paid by Dr Forbes Watson for investigations into the nutritive value of the grains of India and of food substances in general commenced under the special authority of the (late) Court of Directors of the East India Company between 1st March 1857 and March 1859...