This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Proceedings of the Government of India, in the Foreign Department. Political, July-September 1868.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of July to September 1868. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Department ...
Establishment of a quarantine station at Bassidore [Bāsa'īdū]
Scope & Content:
pp 75-84. Correspondence and copy telegrams regarding the outbreak of plague at Mesopotamia [Iraq] and the Persian Gulf; quarantine measures adopted by the Egyptian Sanitary Board; initial plans for temporarily moving the Bushire Residency to Bassidore and establishing a quarantine; the trade of...
Resolution and letter regarding Bengal Insane Asylum Report 1874
Scope & Content:
Resolution of the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, J Crawfurd, regarding the Report on the Insane Asylums of Bengal for 1874: discusses increase in admissions; increases in mortality; expenditure; statistics for Dullunda, Dacca, Patna, Cuttack, Moydapore, Berhampore and Bhowanipore. Letter from A...
Staffing at the Pasteur Institutes at Kasauli and Coonoor
Scope & Content:
pp 117-48. Correspondence between the Government of India and the Pasteur Institute regarding Lieutenant-Colonel D Semple's resignation from the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli, in order that he might take up the Directorship of the Central Research Institute; the recommendation that Captain G Lamb ...
pp 569-621. Secretary of State for India forwards copy telegrams, correspondence and regulations concerning the pilgrim traffic in the Red Sea, and proposals by Turkish authorities for regulation and quarantine. Includes copy communications from: Sir Henry Elliot. Dr Dickson, British Delegate t...
Annual reports on the working of medical schools in Bengal for the year 1906-1907
Scope & Content:
pp 1117-65. Copy annual reports of the Campbell Medical School, the Patna Temple Medical School, and the Cuttack Medical School; plus copy Review of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals on the annual reports of medical schools in Bengal for the year 1906-07.
Annual reports on the working of the Medical Schools in Bengal for 1907-1908
Scope & Content:
pp 1095-1136. Annual reports for Campbell Medical School, Patna Temple Medical School, and the Cuttack Medical School; plus note by the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal, and correspondence thereon.
Reports on the working of medical schools in Bengal for the year 1908-1909
Scope & Content:
pp 1117-55. Annual reports of the Campbell Medical School; Patna Temple Medical School; and Orissa Medical School, Cuttack; plus remarks of the Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Bengal.
Labours of J A Gammie and C H Wood in the discovery of a process for the extraction of the alkaloids from cinchona bark by means of alkalis and oil
Scope & Content:
pp 393-406. Petition of James Alexander Gammie for leave to file a specification under Act XV of 1859 for "a process for the extraction of the alkaloids from cinchona bark by means of alkalis and oil"; with correspondence thereon between the Governments of India and Bengal, plus: notes by C H W...
On the subject of Dr Stewart's proposed remodelling of the Vaccine Department, and the establishment of provincial dispensaries
Scope & Content:
No. 24. Bengal Medical Board to the Governor General in Council, regarding the remodelling of the Vaccine Department and forwarding letter from the Superintendent General of Vaccination in Bengal. Includes communication from the Superintending Surgeon at Benares regarding the artificial dissemin...