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File 1421/1908 Pt 5 'Persia: oil; Anglo-Persian Oil Co's surveys' [68r] (135/142)
The record is made up of 1 item (71 folios). It was created in Jul 1909-Apr 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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In any further communica
tion on this subject, please quote
No. 26837/09.
and address —
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to
transmit to you herewith^ for any observations which the
Secretary of State of India may have to offer^copy of a
letter from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company relative to
geological surveys in Persia.
Viscount Morley will observe that the Company en-
quire
Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios.
, in the first place, whether this Department has
any record of a topographical survey of that country,
such a survey being, in their opinion, a necessary pre
liminary to a geological survey.
On February 11th. of this year. Sir E. Grey re
ceived from Lord Morley a copy of "Memoirs of the Geo
logical survey of India, volume XXXIV, part IV" contain
ing "The Geology of the PerSiam Gulf and the adjoining
portions of Persia and Arabia" by G. E. Pilgrim, B.Sc.,
F.G.S., Geological Survey of India.
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| 24JUL 1903
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ke Under Secretary of State,
India Office
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Part 5 consists of correspondence relating to a proposed survey of Western Persia by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The correspondence is mostly between the Government of India, Foreign Office, and 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. . Included as enclosures is correspondence from representatives of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
The papers cover the arrangements of the details of the survey, such as:
- financial assistance from the Government of India;
- the scale and extent of the survey;
- the loan of an Indian Survey Department officer to the company.
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- File 1421/1908 Pt 5 'Persia: oil; Anglo-Persian Oil Co's surveys'
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- 1r:8v, 9v:10v, 11v:23v, 26r:36v, 38r:46v, 48v:56v, 58r:69v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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