File R 616/1881 - Correspondence regarding the case of an application from Mr Robert Cross for a pension of Rs.100 a month in recognition of services rendered by him in collecting various species of cinchona as well as rubber trees of South America
File R 746/1881 - Recommendation of Colonel Pearson for Mr M Clifford, a Junior Forest Assistant detained at home for one year to study entomology, be allowed to take rank and draw pay retrospectively from the 19th August 1881, the date of his passing out of the Forest School at Nancy
File R 146/1880 - Correspondence regarding the calisaya bark grown at Sikkim
Scope & Content:
The correspondence includes an account by Dr George King, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanical Garden, of his visit to Java to investigate the conditions of growth of cinchona calisaya at the Dutch cinchona plantations
File R 7/1880 - Covering letter from the Government of Madras, Revenue Department, submitting three copies of printed statements of imports and exports for the months of October and November 1879 for the Port of Madras
File R 8/1880 - Covering letter from the Government of Madras, Revenue Department, re-transmitting the duplicate packing account of civil stores received from England per parcel post
File R 9/1880 - Covering letter from the Government of Madras, Revenue Department, transmitting the Proceedings of Government for the month of August 1879