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1. Coll 5/47 ‘Persia, Persian Gulf: Meteorological establishments in Persia and the Persian Gulf – Bushire & Bandar Abbas’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence concerned with meteorological services in Iran (also referred to as Persia). This includes the abandonment of stations operated by Cable and Wireless Limited at Henjam, Charbar [Chabahar], and Jask; the deputation of an Inspector of Observatories to visit stations in the Persian Gulf (see folio 28 for the tour programme); a proposal to appoint a British meteorological and hydrological expert to train officers of the Iranian Navy; and the gift of Henjam's meteorological equipment to the Iranian Government.A note written by Charles William Blyth Normand, Director-General of Observatories in India, outlines how the closure of aforementioned meteorological stations will hinder forecasting in Northern India and the Persian Gulf: see folios 47-50. It includes a map illustrating the locations of meteorological stations in Iran and Arabia.The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Hugle Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Sir Horace James Seymour), officials of the Admiralty (Sidney Hill Phillips and Harold Eastwood), officials of the Foreign Office (George William Rendel) and officials of the Foreign and Political Department (Department of External Affairs from 1937) of the Government of India. There is also some correspondence with the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Most of the correspondence in the file is forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State for India by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, rather than addressed directly to the India Office.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 55; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
2. Coll 5/34 ‘Meteorological Stations in Persian Gulf: Bahrain & Sharjah’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and related notes on the provision of accommodation in the Sharjah Rest House for observers of the Indian Meteorological Department; the observers at Sharjah were to be transferred from Muscat. It also contains some discussion over the future of the observatories operated by the Indian Meteorological Department at Bahrain and Sharjah – following the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947 – and arrangements for their replacement with observatories run by the UK Meteorological Service.A statement showing some activities of the Royal Air Force Observatory at Bahrain can be found on folios 16-17.The main correspondents are as follows: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven William Fowle and Arnold Crawshaw Galloway), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Percy Gordon Loch), officials of the Air Ministry, and officials of the India Office (the Commonwealth Relations Office from August 1947). The file does not include any correspondence for the years 1936-46.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 53; 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.
3. Coll 5/47 ‘Persia and the Persian Gulf: Bushire and Bandar Abbas’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence documenting a proposal from the British Embassy at Tehran that the meteorological stations at Bushire and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] should be shut down, and subsequent consultation with the Government of India and Pakistan via the officers of the UK High Commissioners to these respective countries. It also documents the decision of the Government of Pakistan – as the maintainer of the aforesaid stations – to transfer these stations to Iranian control, rather than close them down.The main correspondents are as follows: officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office (Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison and Kenneth Roy Crook), officials of the Foreign Office (L W Blackwell and W F M Davies). A couple of letters from Sir Nelson King Johnson as Director of the Meteorological Office at the Air Ministry are also present within the file.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.