IOR/F/4/2535/147062

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[pp 1-2] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Revenue Department (No.11 of 1852), dated the 22nd July 1852, on the subject of Major Hannay's report on certain species of nettle grass grown in Assam.

[p 3] Letter from the Secretary to the Government of Bengal to the Secretary to the India House, dated Fort William 7th June 1853, regarding 13 bales of flax manufactured from the nettle grass grown in Assam shipped to London on board the ship Merchantman on the 31st May 1853 (other letters about this are at pp 23-26).

[pp 5-9] Report by Major S F Hannay, Commandant of the 1st Assam Light Infantry Battalion at Dibrooghur [Dibrugarh], on China nettle grass and other allied species grown in Upper Assam, dated 21st April 1852, with related correspondence.

[pp 11-22] Further correspondence on the subject of the nettle grasses (and Rhea fibre) of Upper Assam, August 1852 to April 1853.

[18 un-numbered pages] Note by Dr John Forbes Royle on the Rheea [Rhea or Rhia] fibres of Assam and the Hemp of the Himalayas, dated 13th February 1854.

[1 un-numbered page] Note on the fibres tested at the Military Stores.

[1 un-numbered page] Table showing experiments at Messrs. Huddart & Co's Rope Manufactory, Limehouse, 13th February 1854, on the strength of rope made from samples of Rheea fibre from Assam received from the East India House.

[4 un-numbered pages] Note on the Preparation of the Rheea Fibre.