File RAS GOV4/171 - Circular from Richard Clarke to Members of the Council, 3 January 1849

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GB 891 RAS GOV4-RAS GOV4/171

Title

Circular from Richard Clarke to Members of the Council, 3 January 1849

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  • 3rd Jan 1849 (Creation)

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Name of creator

(1823-)

Administrative history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation ofread more

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Circular from Richard Clarke, Secretary, to Members of the Council, to suggest that the Earl of Auckland, President, having recently died, meetings of the Society should be postponed for a fortnight, which is the same courtesy as was shown on the deathread more

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  • English

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