‘Aden. Doctor Malcolmson’s proposal to introduce vaccination into Arabia and to teach the Arabs how to cultivate Europe vegetables’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Aden. Doctor Malcolmson’s proposal to introduce vaccination into Arabia and to teach the Arabs how to cultivate Europe vegetables’
- Date:
- 1845/1845
- Description:
- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, two Political Letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 19 July and 30 September 1845. Some of the enclosures mentioned in the second letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2122/100103.The item relates to requests to the Court of Directors made by Dr John Porter Malcolmson, Civil Surgeon at Aden. Malcolmson asks for permission to travel to Lahedge (also rendered as Lahidge [Lahij]) and into the interior of Arabia [Arabian Peninsula] in order to introduce vaccination into the general region and also teach ‘the Arabs’ how to cultivate European vegetables. The item contains the replies to Malcolmson's requests from: the Court of Directors; the Government of Bombay; and Malcolmson’s superior, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain in the Indian Navy and Political Agent at Aden. The item also includes a letter to Malcolmson from Charles Chantry, Secretary of the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution, dated 25 April 1845.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5061, Draft 29/46, Coll[ection]: 32, Vol: 1’, ‘Collection No. 2 of No. 80’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 928, and terminates at f 938, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Horticulture
Vaccination
Inoculation - Geographic region:
- Arabian Peninsula
Lahedge
Aden - Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100098440059.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100098440059.0x000001_en
IOR/F/4/2122/100102
IOR/F/4/2122/100102