| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents and press cuttings regarding agriculture in India, including administration, recruitment for appointments, economic botany subjects including flax cultivation, and pests and diseases. Includes information regarding specimens and seeds sent to Kew. Volume includes letters to Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer and Prain, with letters and notes by Thiselton-Dyer, C B Clarke [Herbarium, 1892], Jackson, Prain and Hill, with correspondence with the India Office.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Agricultural Enterprise --
(Ff1-43) Papers regarding agriculture in India, and the employment of an Agricultural Chemist, with letters from General Strachey.
-- Anderson, T. --
(Ff265, 267-268) Papers regarding Thomas Anderson.
-- Bancroft, C K --
(Ff269-279) Papers regarding Bancroft's proposed appointment as Supernumerary Mycologist in the Indian Agricultural Service.
-- Butler, Dr E. J. --
(Ff143-176) Papers regarding appointment of Edwin John Butler as Cryptogamic Botanist, acquisition of books, changes in organisational structure, and on specimens sent to Kew.
-- Cheema, G. S. --
(Ff283-296) Papers regarding Ganda Singh Cheema and studies in fruit growing.
-- Entomologist --
(Ff118-130) Papers regarding appointment of Mr L de Nicéville.
-- Flax cultivation --
(F248) Comprises printed report: 'Preliminary Note on Flax Cultivation by M. Emil Vandekerkhove, Flax Expert to the Bihar Indigo Planters' Association'.
-- Gage, Capt. A. T. (revision of staff list) --
(Ff236-244).
-- Harman, F. E. (attempt to improve Indian Agriculture) --
(Ff44-67) Typescript report titled 'Indian Agriculture. Personal Experiences at an Attempt to Improve It'.
-- Importation citrus plants from [West] Indies --
(Ff249-264) Includes letters from the Botanic Station, Dominica.
-- Inspector-General of Agriculture --
(Ff96-117) Papers regarding proposal to reorganise the Department of Agriculture, Dr Leather's proposals on the recording and publication of results from experimental farms, recruitment of a Cryptogamic Botanist, and recruitment of an Inspector-General of Agriculture.
-- Locust fungus --
(Ff245-247) Papers regarding South African locust fungus.
-- Mycologist --
(Ff131-142) Papers regarding the appointment of a Cryptogamic Botanist.
-- Proposed Manual of Indian Food Products --
(Ff68-95) Papers regarding work on food grains and publication of A H Church's FOOD GRAINS OF INDIA 1881-1886 and Church's proposal to analyse food grains to supplement work of G Watt in the DICTIONARY OF THE ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF INDIA.
-- Wilson, R. M. --
(Ff265-266) Papers regarding Robert Melville Wilson.
Volume also includes (ff280-282) printed resolution on the administration of the Department of Agriculture. |