Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Kyd regarding the cultivation of the prickly pear and cochineal insect; plus recording meteorological and agricultural information
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No. 19, Letter from Lieutenant Coloneal Robert Kyd dated 08 Sep 1788. [pp 258-346] Kyd discusses the expedition of Thiery de Menonville to Guaxaca to retrieve samples of the prickly pear and cochineal insect. The letter contains extensive extracts from Nicolas-Joseph Thiery de Menonville, Traité...
Measures to address the condition of poor pilgrims at Jeddah, and travelling to and from Mecca
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pp 521-23. Communication between Brigadier-General J Schneider, Political Resident at Aden, Captain G Beyts, Consul at Jeddah, and the Secretary of State for India, regarding the payment of passage for poor pilgrims by the wealthy without making provision for their subsistence at Jeddah and Mecca...
Note on the Lock Hospital Reports for the several Governments and Administrations of the Bengal Presidency [Bengal, North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Punjab, Central Provinces, Native States, Burma] for 1877
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pp 719-37. Note by J M Cuningham, Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India, plus Resolution thereon by the Government of India.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. FOREIGN-DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. External, Jan. to June 1887
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This volume contains the Proceedings of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of January-June 1887. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Department in 1914). The subjects cover...
Correspondence and reports regarding the endemic skin diseases of India
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Correspondence and reports received from Indian Medical Service officers throughout India, in response to the paper on endemic skin diseases by Drs Tilbury Fox and Farquhar which was circulated by the Government of India. Contains statistics and detailed case studies for skin diseases in India,...
Review of the Local Sanitary Commissioner reports for 1869
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pp 97-126. Sanitary Commissioner with the Government of India reviews the reports submitted by local Sanitary Commissioners in Berar, the Punjab, Oudh, Burmah, Bengal, the North-Western Provinces, and the Central Provinces. Includes discussion of: I. Vital Statistics; II. The history of each of t...