File S&C 646/1880 - Statistics and Commerce Department minute papers regarding the payment to Sir P C Owen of £105 on account of freight and sundry charges for returning to Madras a cabinet manufactured by Messrs. Deschamps of Madras and exhibited at the Paris Exhibition
File S&C 662/1880 - Request for Mr J Burgess, Archaeological Surveyor, to submit explanations of accounts and vouchers for the balance of £31.14s. on account of the Archaeological Survey of Western India, and of £100 on account of the “Indian Antiquary”
File S&C 672/1880 - Submission, by W W Hunter, 9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh, of Messrs Trübner’ & Co.’s statements of sales of the Statistical Account of Bengal on behalf of Government, to the 31st December 1879, together with their cheque for £113. 12s. payable to the Secretary of State for India
File S&C 583/1880 - Letter from Thomas Wardle, dated 12th May 1880, stating that he has just completed his experiments with Eria and Moonga cocoons and asking permission to add some of the results of those experiments to the collection of wild silks and dyes which he is making for the new India Museum
File S&C 598/1880 - Letter from Sir Bartle Frere, Government House, Cape Town, dated 19th April 1880, expressing gratitude to the Secretary of State for India for the supply of papers and books on Indian irrigation
File S&C 600/1880 - Claim, in connection with an arrangement with the Clarendon Press, on account of the cost of translation and purchase of copies of “Sacred Books of the East”
File S&C 607/1880 - Papers regarding a request of Professor Dowson to the Secretary of State for India to invite the Nizam to lend to the India Office Library any manuscripts His Highness might possess relating to the history of the Mahommedan dynasties of the Deccan, to enable Professor Dowson to complete the late Sir Henry Elliot’s History of India as Told by its Own Historians
File S&C 616/1880 - Extract from a memorandum by Board of Trade officer, G S Nares, dated 4th May 1880, and related minute papers, regarding a proposal to erect a lighthouse and military station at Gardafui
File S&C 619/1880 - Enquiry of John Pell, Engraving Office, 27 Dame Street, Dublin, as to the possibility of an appointment in the Ordnance Survey, Calcutta