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- 1932-1939 (Creation)
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1 folder, handwritten and typed
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Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Members in the 1930s. These are mostly outgoing letters from the Society informing individuals the nomination and asking for their acceptance, and replies from the members, and in some cases contain other printed material such as obituaries and news clippings as attachments. Additional correspondence with or relating to the members have been filed together.
Elected 1932
Professor Heinrich Luders
Professor Th. Stcherbatsky (Fyodor Shcherbatskoy)
Sir Jaganji Jamshedji Modi
Professor August Fischer
Elected 1933
Dr Ernest Herzfeldt, with additional correspondence regarding a planned lecture at RAS on his discovery in Persepolis, Iran
Elected 1934
Professor Moritz Winternitz
Elected 1935
Mirza Muhammad Khan Qazvini
Professor Wilhelm Geiger
Professor Georges Coedes, with a notice of death in the 1970s
Elected 1936
Professor H. E. Winlock
Professor A. J. Wensinck
Elected 1937
Professor Jules Bloch
Professor Carl Brockelmann
Professor J. Ph. Vogel, with further correspondence with the Netherlands Ministry for the Colonies regarding his death in 1943
Mahamahopadhyaya Ganganath Jha
Professor Rene Dussaud
Elected 1938
Professor Arthur Christensen
Professor Jean Przyluski
Elected 1939
Professor E. Levi-Provencal
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The letters are arranged by the year of election of the member.