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‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’ [220r] (439/612)
The record is made up of 1 file (304 folios). It was created in 20 Jun 1933-2 Jan 1945. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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No•1423-16/37
Politicftl Agrncy, Bahrain*
11th August, 1942.
To
Tlie Secretary to the Hon^le the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the Persian ^ulf,
Buoiiire •
SUBJECT*- If ocuat returns*
l^mora ncium •
Reference correspondence resting #»ith this
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
I^lndorsement No •1360-16/37, dated the 2nd
August 1942 ? and pax*ticularly the late Foreign and
Political Department letter No-P*31(2)-G/33, dated
the 7th December 1933, of which a copy ^as forwarded
Y?ith
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Printed letter Ho.2670, dated the
29th December 1933 . j)£ » 1 ’ O l!
2. Only once in the last nine years has
anything but a nil return in respect of locusts been
sent from Bahrain; on that single occasion a swarm
of locusts used la brain as temporary stapping-place
on its v?ay elsewhere, laid m eg.gs and did nc damage
(/idc this
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
Memorandum No *989-16/37, dated the
26th May 1941.) • ‘ I would tnerefore enquire whether,
in view of the present acute shortage of paper, it
would not be possible for the Department of Imperial
Council of Agricultural Research or the Imperial
Institute of Entomology to assume in future that the
Bahrain monthly returns are blank unless a contrary
intimation is sent to them*
3. In this connection, it is not clear what
Institute *as referred to in the
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
telegram No*14315, dated the 10th November 1941.
(copy forwarded with your Printed Letter No*0/528,
dated the 12th November 194y as we had not
received/
f- r o-
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Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , submitted by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain, at the request of the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, Government of India. All reports are marked ‘nil’, meaning no locust occurrences observed, with the exception of those for April 1941 (f 200), August 1943 (f 253), and March 1944 (f 265).
The file also includes:
- correspondence concerning the visit to the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , between January and April 1937, of Reginald Charles Maxwell-Darling of the Imperial Institute of Entomology, London. Correspondence relates to Maxwell-Darling’s travel arrangements, notification of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. rulers of the visit, and difficulties likely to be experienced in travelling into Ibn Saud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] territories (ff 55-136);
- correspondence dated 1937, relating to locust movements in Arabia, in connection to locust movements in India and Iran (ff 145-146, ff 150-152);
- correspondence dated 1943 making reference to the activities of the Anti-Locust Mission on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. .
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- 1 file (304 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 275-305) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 306; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 12-281; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1542
- Title
- ‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 10r:56v, 58r:69v, 71r:84v, 87r:87v, 89r:91v, 93r:98v, 100r:116v, 118r:120v, 122r:128v, 132r:135v, 137r:197v, 199r:305v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence