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61. Selected Techniques in the Art of Agriculture
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- Abstract: The author of this book, Bishārah ibn Salwān Naḥūl al-Lubnānī, explains in the introduction how he had long desired to write an Arabic text on the agricultural sciences but was only able to do so after he obtained a series of agricultural texts that had been translated from French into Turkish. The book is arranged in two parts, the first on horticulture, and the second on animal husbandry. The part on horticulture opens with general topics, such as water, soil, and plant diseases. This is followed by sections on grains similar to wheat; nutritious roots; thick, rounded roots; legumes; plants that yield oils for lighting and other industrial uses; plants used for making rope, twine, and cloth; plants used as dyes; plants from which wine is extracted; sugar-bearing plants; fruit trees; trees that yield edible oils; trees with leaves that have industrial uses; annual and perennial herbs; and so on. The first part concludes with taxonomy; a temperature chart in Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Réaumur; and captions for the illustrations, all of which appear at the end of the book. Part two begins with Georges Cuvier’s classification of the animal kingdom (vertebrata, mollusca, articulata, and radiata). Practical topics discussed include: the raising of ungulates; domesticated birds; fish and fish farming; apiculture; sericulture; mammalian pests; avian pests; harmful insects; hunting; wine and beer making; and the operation of mills. The final sections of the book deal with the treatment of human diseases in the absence of a doctor.Physical description: 2 parts in 1 volume, 261 pages ; 22 centimeters
62. Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater Transjordan, Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: Transjordan; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
63. Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the Working Party of the Middle East (Official) Committee. It mainly consists of Working Party papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office, and a register of these papers with notes at the back of the file.The file includes agendas for meetings of the Working Party. It also includes papers circulated to members of the Working Party for consideration at meetings, relating to the following subjects: economic and social development in the Middle East in general; the Iraq Central Development Board; the question of an International Bank Loan for Iraq; a visit to Bahrain in January/February 1949 by Matthew Thomas Audsley; the Persian [Iranian] Seven-Year Plan; employment of British experts in the Middle East; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic factors in Middle East development.In addition, the file includes papers relating to economic and social development of the following places: Iraq; Greater Transjordan; Saudi Arabia; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania [Libya], Eritrea, and Somalia; the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; the Lebannon; Ethiopia; Sudan; and Yemen.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 320; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
64. Coll 54/3 'Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party. Country by Country Studies'
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- Abstract: The file contains: Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party papers received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); and a register of the papers received (found at the back of the file), with very brief internal notes between Robert (William Doughty) Fowler and John Anthony Molyneux of the CRO, about whether the papers include any points of special interest to the CRO.The file includes the following Working Party papers:Papers by the Foreign Office on Syria, dated 4, 25 and 30 May 1949.A revised draft of the Working Party’s paper on Iraq, dated 10 May 1949.A paper by the Foreign Office on Egypt, dated 10 May 1949, and a revised version dated 20 June 1949.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 90; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
65. Coll 54/4 'British Middle East Office Development Division Quarterly Reports'
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- Abstract: The file contains a copy of a report sent by the Foreign Office to Robert (William Doughty) Fowler of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO), and a folio at the back of the file recording the receipt of the report by the CRO, with some CRO notes.The report is by the British Middle East Office on the work of its Development Division during the second quarter of 1949, sent to the Foreign Office, dated 6 August 1949.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 10; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
66. File 3156/1918 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia Sir J. Hewett’s Mission’
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, reports, and minutes. The correspondence is mainly about the mission of John Hewett’s [also spelled in the volume as Hewitt] to Mesopotamia. On behalf of the War Office, the mission is to examine and report to the Army Council on the financial bearings of agricultural and irrigational schemes in Mesopotamia.Other issues discussed in the volume are the following:The work of the Chief Centre of Cultivation and the main corps and farming facilities in MesopotamiaThe ‘control of expenditure and of irrigation and river conservancy’ in MesopotamiaAppointment of officers from India to accompany Hewett, and their proposed salariesThe Egyptian Government agreeing to assist Hewett in Egypt and MesopotamiaThe Civil Commissioner, Baghdad complains that the activities of Hewett’s mission interfering with his own civil dutiesConcerns raised regarding a lecture Hewett delivered at Baghdad to British officers on Indian Reform Proposals and the influence the lecture could have on the prospects of civil or military Government employment in IndiaCorrespondence between the War Office, the Army Council, and the India Office on whether to take any actions towards Hewett, and Hewett’s response to that.The correspondence also includes a number of reports of the Army Agricultural Committee.Other correspondents in the volume are: the Foreign Office, London; the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under-Secretary of State for India, Political Department; the Viceroy, Army Department; the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; and the British Delegation, Paris.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 131; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. The sequence contains one foliation anomaly, f 18a.
67. File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1918 PORTION'
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- Abstract: This volume consists of printed reports, typed letters and other miscellaneous correspondence by British officials relating to the British occupation of Mesopotamia in the period September 1917 to March 1919 covering such topics as administration of justice, agriculture and land revenue, and tribes.The papers notably cover the following:Arab labour in the Occupied Territories (ff 581-588)British relations with tribesmen of southern Kurdistan (ff 565-580)Violent actions of Russian troops at Khaniqin [Khanaqin]Administration of the Tribal Disputes Regulation in the Basra vilayet (f 452)The Euphrates Channels from Musaiyib [Musayyib] to Sammarah [Samarra]: physical features and position of tribesDesert reconnaissance undertaken by 31st Wing, RAF, Mesopotamia, August 1918 (ff 141-143)Revenue for Basra vilayet, May 1918 (ff 114-139).Notable items include the following:Land revenue reportsBritish relations with the Arab tribes in various regions of MesopotamiaBritish relations with the Kurdish tribes of the Kurdish areas of MesopotamiaReports concerning the potential for mineral, agricultural and economic developmentReports on trips of reconnaissanceReports on the administration of justiceStatement of expenditure incurred by the civic hospital, Basra from 1916-17Report by Mr Bonham Carter, Senior Judicial Officer, Baghdad on Administration of Civil Justice in Baghdad vilayet (f 441)List of mineral specimens sent to Imperial Institute, London (ff 425-426)Revenue note on Karbala (f 368)Note on trip from Qal‘at Salih via the marshes and Beni Turuf [Banī Ṭurf] country to Ahwaz by Captain Stuart Edwin Hedgcock, Assistant Political Officer, ‘Amarah [Al ‘Amarah]Notes on the tribes of Southern Kurdistan by Major Ely Bannister Soane, Political Officer, Khaniqin [Khanaqin]Land revenue note on Qizil Rabat [Jabal Qizil Rabat] including a family tree of a branch of the Jaf [Jaff] tribe (f 254)Report on the administration of civil and criminal justice in the Basra vilayet by the courts established under the Iraq Occupied Territories Code during the year 1917Compilation of proclamations, notices relating to civil administration and inhabitants of the Baghdad vilayet issued 22 December 1916 to 1 July 1918 (ff 204-236)Proclamation issued by the General Officer Commanding in Chief (ff 171-203)Political Office Diaries, July-August 1918 for Badra, Hai [Al-Hay], Zobair [Az Zubayr], Suq-esh-Sheyukh [Suq Al-Shuyukh], Nasiriyeh [Nasiriyah], Shattra [Al-Shatrah], Qilat Sikar [Qalat Sukkar] (ff 145-167)Supplement number 5 (up to 1 July 1918). The Iraq Occupied Territories Code, 1915Handbook to ‘Amarah Agricultural Show (in Arabic) (ff 60-67)Memorandum on Shebanah (local Arab levies) in Mesopotamia (f 51)Half yearly report on the working of the Office of Superintendent, Government Press, Basra, for the half year ending 30 September 1918 (ff 44-49)Land revenue reports for Musaiyib, Qizil Rabat, Kadhimian [Kadhimiya], Diwaniyah [Al Diwaniyah], Ramadi, Shamiyah [Al-Shamiya] (ff 24-42)Report on a visit to Jabal Sinjar, Captain Archibald Campbell Munro, Indian Medical Service, July 1918.Correspondents include: Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (Percy Zachariah Cox); Chief Political Officer in Charge, Iraq Section, Arab Bureau (Gertrude Lothian Bell); Director, Military Intelligence, Cairo; Officer-in-Charge, Arab Bureau; Chief Political Officer, Baghdad; Senior Judicial Officer, Baghdad; First Revenue Officer, Indian Civil Service; and the General Headquarters, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 670; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. There are five foliation anomalies: f 143a, f 429a, f 449a, f 581a, and f 617a.