Author
Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
Publication Date
20 Jun 1933-2 Jan 1945 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
304
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1542
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x000115
Library Location
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.
Date
20 Jun 1933-2 Jan 1945 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
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.
.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
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.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office: File 16/37
