IOR/L/PJ/3/1064 No.37

The collection consists of the following small collections of papers, each of which has a title page and a table of contents:

• Coll 1, Application from the Lahore Literary and Scientific Institution to occupy rent free the Barrack room at Anarkullee [Anarkali], February to November 1857.
• Coll 2, Proposed establishment of a lunatic asylum at Indore, March 1857 to January 1858.
• Coll 3, Correspondence regarding the proposed construction of a jail hospital and dispensary at Sehore, April 1857 to January 1858.
• Coll 4, Report on the visit of Hermann Schlagintweit to Katmandu, March 1857 to January 1858.
• Coll 5, Correspondence regarding the supercession of Captain J C Haughton by Captain Briggs, a junior officer, to the post of Deputy Commissioner at Amherst, December 1856 to February 1858.
• Coll 6, Correspondence relating to a loss sustained by James Williams, a Bazar Contractor at Sittang, owing to an irregularity of proceedings on the part of Lieutenant E B Sladen, the officer in charge of the Sittang Division, November 1856 to February 1858.
• Coll 7, Report by M Marcadien, Geological Surveyor, on the metalliferous resources of the salt range in the Jhelum Division, April 1857 to March 1858.
• Coll 8, Correspondence relating to certain petroleum springs in the Jhelum District, September 1854 to March 1858.
• Coll 9, Correspondence regarding the grant of medical aid for the Government Establishment and inhabitants of the Kutchee Pargana in the Leia District, April 1857 to March 1858.
• Coll 10, Correspondence regarding the permanent appointment of two vaccinators attached to the Kangra District, May 1857 to March 1858.
• Coll 11, Report by Dr J B Stratton, Residency Surgeon at Baroda, on the Gaikwar Hospital at Baroda for 1856, and on the operations of His Highness' Vaccine Establishment for the last six months of the same year.
• Coll 12, Correspondence regarding the request of the Resident at Hyderabad for a monthly allowance of 30 rupees to the library which had been established by the inhabitants of Chudderghat [Chadarghat] and the Residency, June 1857 to March 1858.
• Coll 13, Correspondence regarding relief to sick indigent paupers and sick distressed seamen at Rangoon, August 1857 to April 1858.
• Coll 14, Correspondence regarding the suspension of Gopal Bhartee, Native Doctor attached to the civil station and jail hospital at Menghyee, August 1857 to April 1858.
• Coll 15, Correspondence regarding a refund to Saw Keeyan, the renter of the Government Bazar at Rangoon, in consequence of the destruction of the Bazar by fire, May 1857 to April 1858.
• Coll 16, Correspondence regarding the abolition of the medical store depot at Moulmein, April 1857 to April 1858.
• Coll 17, Correspondence relating to the examination of native correspondence passing through the Post Office at Hyderabad, July 1857 to May 1858.
• Coll 18, Correspondence relating to certain remarks indulged in by the Friend of India newspaper against Lieutenant Colonel H M Durand, Officiating Agent for Central India, October 1857 to May 1858.
• Coll 19, Correspondence relating to the despatch from Nepal of sections of Himalayan trees and geological specimens for the Magnetic Survey of India, October 1857 to May 1858.
• Coll 20, Correspondence relating to a claim preferred by H Lewis, Master Attendant at Rangoon, for compensation for loss of property by fire on the 7th December 1856, including a list of the property destroyed, March 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 21, Application from Lieutenant Aylesbury, Master Attendant at Dalhousie, for compensation for loss of his kit while endeavouring to save Government property during a violent hurricane on the 27th May 1857 at Dalhousie, July 1857 to July 1858 (includes a list of the articles lost).
• Coll 22, Correspondence regarding the erection of temporary buildings for a bazar at Toungoo, September 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 23, Correspondence regarding the death of Assistant Surgeon J C K Bond, Civil Surgeon of Moulmein, and the appointment of Assistant Surgeon D M Falconer in his place, October 1857 to July 1858.
• Coll 24, Special allowance of 150 rupees per month granted to Dr Ebden as Superintendent of Dispensaries and Vaccinators in Rajputana, September 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 25, Appointment of Dr Henry Ebden as an Honorary Extra Assistant with the Rajputana Agency, December 1857 to August 1858.
• Coll 26, Annual report by Dr H Ebden, Rajputana Agency Surgeon, of operations in the dispensaries in Rajputana during the year ending 30th June 1857.
• Coll 27, Reports from the Commissioner of Pegu regarding the specimens of sulphur and sulphuret of iron supposed to have been brought from Yanan, and the lead ore discovered near Amarapura, August 1857 to September 1858.
• Coll 28, Report by the Central Committee of Examination on the result of the special examination of assistants and extra assistants in the Punjab held in November 1857. The men examined were R F Saunders, J B Smyly, W C Plowden, Motee Lall, H E Perkins, C W Aitchison, T H Thornton, C Minchin and J S Ross.
• Coll 29, Correspondence regarding the mineral resources of the Poongah Valley, February to September 1858.
• Coll 30, Correspondence regarding the maintenance of the staging bungalows between Bunnoo and Dera Ghazi Khan, January 1857 to September 1858.
• Coll 31, Report by Thomas Oldham, Superintendent of the Geological Survey, on certain geological specimens and mineral waters collected by Mr O'Riley, Assistant Commissioner of Toungoo, among the wild Karens and in the country of Karenni, December 1857 to October 1858.
• Coll 32, Appointment of E A Fitzgerald to the medical charge of Port Dalhousie, September 1857 to October 1858.
• Coll 33, Correspondence regarding certain specimens of coal from Mergui and the Lenya river, November 1857 to October 1858.
• Coll 34, Annual report of the Moulmein General Hospital for 1856/57, with related correspondence, May 1857 to October 1858.
• Coll 35, Report by Thomas Oxley, Senior Surgeon of the Straits Settlements, on the Banda nutmeg plantations (From the Journal of the Indian Archipelago), printed in Singapore, 1858.
• Coll 36, Correspondence regarding the death of Adolphe Schlagintweit, January to April 1858.
• Coll 37, Correspondence forwarding drawings taken in Burma by Colesworthy Grant, the artist attached to the Ava Mission in 1855, including a list of the drawings, May 1857 to August 1858. [The drawings are not included in the file.]
• Coll 38, Correspondence regarding a medical chest supplied to G F Cockburn, Officiating Superintendent of the Tributary Mehals, Cuttack Division, for the use of his camp when visiting the Tributary Mehals, January to September 1857.
• Coll 39, Papers regarding the preliminary arrangements for the supply of raw materials for the construction of the works necessary for the drainage of the town of Calcutta, March 1857 to April 1858. Includes 'A Report of the Committee on the Drainage of Calcutta, 1857' (Calcutta: 1857) with appendices.
• Coll 40, Correspondence giving an explanation by the Municipal Commissioners of Calcutta regarding the investment of the sums ordered to be set apart for the drainage of the town of Calcutta, August 1857 to April 1858.
• Coll 41, Rules passed by the Government of Bombay for the lease and sale of lands for building sites at Karachi, with related correspondence, December 1855 to February 1858.
• Coll 42, Correspondence regarding the introduction of Indian weights into the Province of Pegu, August 1855 to September 1858.
• Coll 43, Report by the Central Committee of Examination on the examination of assistants and extra assistants in the Punjab during April 1858.
• Coll 44, Correspondence regarding Mr Apothecary White of the Moulmein General Hospital, who was ordered to proceed to Calcutta, March to October 1858.
• Coll 45, Report on the Pangee [Pangi] Timber Agency, with related correspondence, March 1857 to December 1858, and a colour sketch [map] showing the position of the forests on the Chenab.
• Coll 46, Correspondence bringing to notice an omission in the statements of the assets of the Lawrence Military Asylum at Sanawar, forwarded in the Government of India's Foreign Department letter no.16, dated 16th December 1858.