File R 866/1880 - Letter from Alfred Forbes Brown, Indian Forest Department, to the Under Secretary of State for India, dated 19th October 1880, regarding his passage to India
File R 874/1880 - Draft despatch to the Governor General of India in Council, No.92 of 1880, dated 4th November 1880, informing him of the arrangements for the passages of A F Brown, F B Bryant, T A Hauxwell, and M S Fowler, junior forest officers
File R 820/1880 - Abstracts of Confidential Proceedings of the Bombay Government in the Revenue Department (Miscellaneous, and Lands) for the month of July 1880, with some related correspondence
Scope & Content:
The abstracts are on the subjects of the re-adjustment of boundaries between the territories of the Bombay Government and of the Mysore State; and on salt
File R 846/1880 - Proceedings embodying papers on the result of the settlement of five taluks of the Coimbatore District in the Madras Presidency, consisting of Erode, Satyamangalam, Coimbatore, Bhavani and Palladam
Scope & Content:
Includes proceedings of the Madras Government, Revenue Department, 15th February 1876, reporting the results of the settlement of a portion of the principal division of the Chingleput District
File R 875/1880 - Correspondence regarding the appointment of an Agricultural Instructor in the Poona College of Science, Bombay; and the establishment of a Central Forest School for the training of Native candidates as Forest Rangers
Scope & Content:
Includes an extract from a report by Dr Cleghorn on the six candidates for examination in January 1881 for the Forest Service in India: Harold Martin Reed, George Homfray, Hugh Murray, Herbert Slade, Henry Jackson Aylmer and Albert Wyndham Lushington. Also included is a letter from the India O...