File S&C 184/1881 - Request from E C Rye, Librarian, Royal Geographical Society, for a copy of the 'Report on a visit to Sikkim and the Tibetan Frontier in 1873' by G Ware Edgar
File S&C 197/1881 - Copy of a letter from Dr Dickson reporting the steps taken by the Constantinople Board of Health with a view to framing supplementary instructions to the Ottoman Pilgrim Traffic Regulations with a view to assimilate them to those of Egypt and British Dominions
File S&C 163/1881 - Request by the Royal Asiatic Society, London, for a copy of the report by Dr E Forchhammer on the Pali, Burmese and Sanskrit literature in Burma
File S&C 178/1881 - Papers regarding the proposed establishment of meteorological observatories in connection with India
Scope & Content:
The file includes: A letter from Sir Rawson W Rawson, dated 26th January 1881, urging the establishment of a meteorological observatory at Barbados. A letter from Maxwell Hall of Jamaica, dated 12th May 1880, giving a sketch of his proposed system of West Indian storm warnings Article in Nature...
File S&C 192/1881 - Request from H B Middleton, Dorchester, for any information on persons with the name Purling in the records of the East India Company
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Includes brief information on Erasmus Purling, Matthew Purling, John Purling and George Purling
File S&C 170/1881 - Request from Mrs Grace Bryden, London, to be furnished with a copy of the correspondence with the Government of India relative to the pay attached to the appointment of the Statistical Officer
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Includes a memorandum of the Army Sanitary Commission on reports by Dr Bryden bringing up the Statistical History of the European Army in India, and of the Native Army and Jail population of Bengal, to 1876
File S&C 167/1881 - Rules relating to the transmission of memorials etc addressed to Her Majesty the Queen or to the Secretary of State for India by persons resident in India
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Also includes the rules as to addresses etc addressed to Her Majesty the Queen, the Members of the Royal Family, or to High Officials of Her Majesty's Government in England
File S&C 182/1881 - Application by Bernard Quaritch, bookseller, to be placed on the list of official agents for the sale of books and publications issued from the India Office or received from India
Scope & Content:
Includes a printed copy of a price list of "Important Indian Government Publications: offered by Bernard Quaritch", March 1881