File S&C 1406/1880 - Draft cover letter to forward to the Board of Trade a copy of the proceedings of a court of enquiry held at Bombay to investigate the circumstances attending the wreck of the barque Mahableshwar off the Laccadives on the 16th June 1880
File S&C 1429/1880 - Papers on the subject of the effect of the Merchant Shipping Law in India, Act XIII of 1878, on the charge of misconduct against John Higgins, late Master of the ship Drumclog
File S&C 1431/1880 - Papers regarding the registration of pilgrims to Mecca
Scope & Content:
Includes a copy of Orders in Council for the Regulation of Consular Jurisdiction in the Dominions of the Sublime Ottoman Porte, dated December 12, 1873, July 7, 1874, May 13, 1875, October 26, 1875, and February 5, 1876 (London: 1876)
File S&C 1420/1880 - Papers regarding a proposal to issue in England a revised edition of the Indian Pharmacopoeia
Scope & Content:
The papers contain lists of Indian drugs and medicines suggested for inclusion in the new edition, and includes "Drugs of Bombay: The Pharmacopoeia prepared by the Bombay Committee"
File S&C 1425/1880 - Proposed survey of the vicinity of the island of Jubal Zooghur [Jabal Zuqar] in the Red Sea
Scope & Content:
Includes a report on the result of an investigation held at Aden in reference to the loss of the steamer Duke of Lancaster at Jubal Zooghur Island in the Red Sea on the 13th of July 1880
File S&C 1452/1880 - Request by H P Hubbard of New Haven, Connecticut, USA, for a list of Indian newspapers and periodicals published in India, and for a list of the banks and financial institutions of India
Scope & Content:
The file includes a flyer for Hubbard's Newspaper Directory of the World, and specimen pages for English and Turkish newspapers