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‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’ [251r] (501/612)
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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Copy of a report by Mohannecl Khafaja Assistant to the Anti-Locust
in compliance with your order at' 11th August 1943, I, m th two
oupervisors of the Anti-Locust unit, visited the above villages,
i passed through all the palmstrefls and gardens, but 1 found little
number of the locusts.
1. The locust is known as the desert locust, but she is still
unmatured of red colour.
2. Cf this kind of locusts, two small swarms arrived on the^
evening of Tuesday and Wednesday, 10th and 11th August 1943 from
the southren direction. They alighted on the trees of the above
three villages, but no damage was done.
3. They did not remain but flew away to the northern and
western directions in the morning of Thursday 12th August 1943.
4. On examining the remaining small number, 1 found them very weak
to an extent that they have no power to fly, from which it ^appears
that they did not meet grass in the place from shich they flew,
nor in the area they passed through them.
5. /hen 1 enquired from the inhabitants about the state of the
swarm on arrival, they told me that they were scattered and
flying was low.
This has been for your information with the kind reouest
that a copy to be sent to Mr. Maxwell Darling and Mr .Fitzgerald.
-16/37 Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, Bahrain.
lated the /^j^Au.gust 1943.
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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. .
- Extent and format
- 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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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence