Author
representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit
Publication Date
31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
448
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/R/15/2/1544
Record ID
vdc_100000000282.0x000117
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
31 Aug 1942-18 May 1943 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to efforts, undertaken by representatives of the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit (MEALU), to control desert locusts (first reported in western India in August 1942 (f 3)) along the Arab coast between Bahrain and Oman. The principal correspondents include: the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
at Bahrain (Edward Birkbeck Wakefield); the Chief Locust Officer (Reginald Charles Maxwell-Darling) and Locust Officer (Leslie Desmond Edward Foster Vesey-Fitzgerald) of MEALU, who arrived in Bahrain to carry out their work in October 1942; the Defence Officer for the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
(Lieutenant-Colonel H T Hewitt); representatives of the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC); and representatives of the Bahrain shipping agent Gray, Mackenzie & Company.
The file includes:
reports from Maxwell-Darling and Vesey-Fitzgerald, as well as from numerous other British officials from across the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
region, including the British Minister at Tehran, Sir Reader William Bullard, on locust observations. The observations include estimations of the size of swarms, movement and direction of insects, age and colour of animals;
correspondence relating to arrangements for the shipment of locust poison bait from the Sudan Government in Khartoum, to Bahrain;
correspondence relating to the arrangements of facilities for the MEALU team on the
Trucial Coast
A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates.
, chiefly arrangements for suitable vehicles (arranged with the assistance of CASOC and the Defence Officer for the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
), experienced drivers and motor mechanics, finances, and rations;
papers issued by MEALU, including instructions on reporting locust swarms (ff 136-137), and notes on locust campaigns in sparsely inhabited countries (ff 194-195, ff 385-386);
a copy of a booklet entitled
Methods of Locust Control
, produced by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research and published by the Government of India Press, Calcutta [Kolkota], 1941 (ff 226-236);
a reprint of an academic journal article entitled
Some results of studies of the Desert Locust (Schistocerca Gregaria, Forsk.) in India
, by Rao Bahadur Y Ramchandra Rao (ff 266-278). The article is a reprint from the
Bulletin of Entomological Research
, volume 33, part 3, published December 1942;
some papers relating to anti-locust activities in southern Iran.
The file contains a single letter in Arabic, a letter to the
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
from the Ruler of Qatar, Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī (f 334).
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 424-449) mirror the chronological arrangement.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
English Office: File 16/37A I
