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MCR - Miscellaneous Reports Collection
- 5 - India
  - 1 - India: general and mixed

Ref No	MCR/5/1/2
Alt Ref No	MR/103
Alt Ref No	geographical classification 5
Title	India: Miscellaneous
Description	Manuscript and typescript letters and notes, printed documents and press cuttings regarding botanical and scientific subjects relating to India. Includes letters to and from Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain and Hill. Includes correspondence with the India Office, Government of India Department of Revenue and Agriculture, the Royal Society, and the Royal Geographical Society, with letters from Arthur R Hinks. Volume is arranged in the following sections: -- Animal diseases (Sub-Committee) -- (Ff159-193) Papers regarding the Sub Committee on Diseases of Animals of the Royal Society Indian Government Advisory Committee, and their criticism of reports of the Board of Scientific Advice to the Government of India. -- British India Flora -- (Ff1-54, 69-73) Papers regarding Joseph Hooker's FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, including distribution lists. -- Dehra Dun Forestry School -- (Ff266-310) Papers regarding specimens sent to Kew for identification, and other botanical subjects, with letters from R S Hole and R N Parker, Forest Botanists. -- Lisboa, Dr. -- (Ff101-119) Papers regarding delay in publication of Dr Lisboa on the Grasses of Western India due to Joseph Hooker's FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA, and the neccessity of the Government of India's permission for work on local floras. -- Mount Everest expedition -- (Ff194-265) Papers regarding expeditions of 1921 and 1922 by the Royal Geographic Society, and distribution of seeds and plants collected. Includes letters by A F R Wollaston and Hinks. -- Punjab Flora -- (Ff55-68) Papers regarding J R Drummond's plan for a Flora of the Punjab. -- Rinderpest Protective Serum -- (Ff135-158) Includes: - Alfred Lingard, REPORT ON THE PREPARATION OF RINDERPEST SERUM WITH FIFTY TABULAR STATEMENTS (Calcutta: Government Printing, 1904). -- Sand binding plants -- (Ff74-94) Includes: - Hugh Cleghorn, SAND BINDING PLANTS OF THE MAD. [MADRAS] BEACH [with printed illustrations] - SAND-BINDING PLANTS (1883). -- Scale Bug -- (Ff120-134) Papers regarding acquisition of lady-birds in response to infestation of scale bugs in Madras coffee crop in 1898, with reports on Mr H O Newport's visit to Australia. Includes: - LADY-BIRDS (1898). -- Schlagintweit Herbarium -- (Ff95-100) Papers regarding herbarium collected by H A and R Schlagintweit in Tibet.
Date	6 Aug 1878-25 Apr 1928
Subject	Committees
	Plants
	Forestry schools and education
	Grasses
	Publishing
	Plant collecting
	Herbaria
	Botanical specimens
	Plant parasites
	Animals--Diseases
	Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
	Rinderpest
	Scale insects
Format	Manuscript papers
	Typescript
	Published documents
	Press cuttings
Collection Title	Miscellaneous Reports
Level	File
Extent	1 volume
Language	English
Language	French

Associated persons and organisations

Code	Name	Dates
DS/UK/89	Hooker; Sir; Joseph Dalton (1817-1911); Knight; Botanist and second director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew	1817-1911
DS/UK/90	Thiselton-Dyer; Sir; William (1843-1928); Knight; British botanist and third director of Kew	1843-1928
DS/UK/187	Prain; Sir; David (1857-1944); Knight; British botanist and director of Kew	1857-1944
DS/UK/141	Hill; Sir; Arthur William (1875-1941); Knight; British botanist and director of Kew	1875-1941
DS/UK/204	British Government; India Office; 1858-1947	1858-1947
DS/UK/512	Great Britain and Ireland; Royal Society; 1663-	1663-
DS/UK/201	India; Board of Scientific Advice for India; 1902-?1905
DS/UK/202	Government of India; Home, Revenue and Agriculture Department
DS/UK/531	Great Britain and Ireland; Royal Geographical Society; 1830-	1830-
DS/UK/532	Dehradun; British Imperial Forest School
DS/UK/526	Hinks; Arthur Robert (1873-1945); astronomer and geographer	1873-1945
DS/UK/522	Hole; Robert Selby (1874-1938); forester	1874-1938
DS/UK/523	Parker; Richard Neville (1884-1958); forester	1884-1958
DS/UK/524	Lisboa; José Camillo (c.1822-1897)	c.1822-1897
DS/UK/525	Wollaston; Alexander Frederick Richmond (1875-1930); explorer and naturalist	1875-1930
DS/UK/527	Drummond; James Ramsay (1851-1921); civil servant	1851-1921
DS/UK/528	Schlagintweit; Hermann Rudolph Alfred von (1826-1882); explorer	1826-1882
DS/UK/529	Schlagintweit; Robert (1833-1885); explorer	1833-1885
DS/UK/530	Schlagintweit; Adolf von (1829-1857); explorer	1829-1857

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