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4458: Report on the effects of artificial respiration, intravenous injection of ammonia, and administration of various drugs, &c. in Indian and Australian snake-poisoning; and the physiological, chemical, and microscopical nature of snake-poisons, by the Commission appointed to investigate the subject (Calcutta: printed at the Bengal Secretariat Press, 1874)
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.67 of 1874, dated 11 December 1874
4570: Reports of the experiments made to test the destructive power of Samuel Bateson's "Vermin Asphyxiator" as a means of destroying snakes, rats and white ants
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.39 of 1875, dated 5 July 1875
4600: Request from the Government of India to be supplied with certain information regarding David Kitchener, an insane pauper who was sent to England in 1863 on board the ship Hougomont
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Public letter received from India, No.53 of 1875, dated 6 September 1875
4917: Obstacles placed in the way of time-expired immigrants in Reunion returning to their native country
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.6 of 1877, dated 9 February 1877; and a copy of the Emigration letter received from India, No.13 of 1877, dated 12 April 1877
4961: Compassionate allowance of £60 a year to H E Impey, Extra Assistant Commissioner in the Central Provinces
Scope & Content:
The collection includes a copy of the Financial letter received from India, No.168 of 1877, dated 11 June 1877. Also includes a copy of the Despatch, No.84 of 1877, dated 2 August 1877.
5445: Provision of second class instead of deck passages for military details travelling by the vessels of the Peninsular & Oriental Company between Aden and Bombay
Scope & Content:
The collection consists only of a copy of the Separate Revenue (Post Office) letter received from India, No.14 of 1879, dated 14 July 1879