File S&C 1536/1880 - Draft despatch to the Board of Trade, dated 5th January 1881, forwarding a copy of the proceedings of a court of enquiry appointed to investigate the circumstances relating to the grounding of the SS Peer of the Realm at the entrance to the Rangoon River in March 1880
File S&C 1539/1880 - Request by the Statistics & Commerce Department for 30 copies of a map of Turkistan illustrating the distribution of Russian forces
File S&C 19/1881 - Letter from Leopold Videcoq enquiring as to whether a prize had been awarded by the Government of India for a machine for preparing rhea fibre
File S&C 21/1881 - Appointment of Dr Birdwood as Visitor to the India Museum for the purpose of keeping the Secretary of State for India informed as to the condition of the Museum, and as a channel of communication between the Museum and the India Office
File S&C 23/1881 - Letter from the Colonial Office acknowledging receipt of the works on irrigation transmitted for the use of the Public Works Department in Cyprus
File S&C 25/1881 - Enquiry from the Societe Industrielle de Mulhouse requesting iron frames in which the plates supplied with the work on the "Textile Manufactures of India" were shown
File S&C 31/1881 - Draft Despatches to the Governments of India, Madras and Bombay informing them that copies of the report on sanitary measures in India in 1878-79 had been transmitted to them
File S&C 47/1881 - Enquiry from William G Dobie as to whether the reward offered by the Government of India for a machine for preparing rhea fibre was still open