File R 168/1880 - Letter to the Under Secretary of State for India, from Jenkin & Phillips, Drug Brokers, dated London 17th February 1880, regarding 730 bales of cinchona bark
File R 169/1880 - Request from R M Kitts, Prestongrange Coal and Iron Company Limited, for a copy of a memorandum published by the Government of India on Wynaad gold fields
File R 172/1880 - Request by E McArthur Moir, Assistant Conservator of Forests, to be allowed to visit forests abroad at the public expense while on furlough
File R 185/1880 - Draft letter to Colonel Pearson at the School of Forestry at Nancy regarding the six candidates who had been nominated for training for the Indian Forest Department, and a draft letter of introduction
File R 183/1880 - Declarations signed by candidates looking to enter the School of Forestry at Nancy
Scope & Content:
The file contains completed printed declaration forms for Hugh Murray, Harold M Reed, Herbert Slade, Henry Jackson Aylmer Porter, George Homfray, and Alfred Wyndham Lushington
File R 196/1880 - Report on the Gold Mines of the South-Eastern portion of the Wynaad and the Carcoor Ghat by R Brough Smyth, Mining Engineer (Madras, 1880)