Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1827 - 1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 archival folder
Context area
Name of creator
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 of… read more
Name of creator
Biographical history
Michael Faraday was an English physicist and chemist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Faraday had only a basic school education and at the age of 14, became an apprentice to George Riebau, a bookbinder and bookseller.… read more
Name of creator
Biographical history
Sir William Foster CIE was a British historiographer and civil servant who was Registrar and Superintendent of Records in the India Office. He was a member of the Hakluyt Society and an authority on the detailed history of early British relations with… read more
Name of creator
Biographical history
Joseph L. Williams was involved in the publication in 'The Comprehensive History of India'.
Name of creator
Name of creator
Biographical history
J.W. Freeland was a researcher interested in Chinese history.
Name of creator
Biographical history
John Scarth was a British Resident in China and author of 'Twelve Years in China. The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins'.
Name of creator
Name of creator
Biographical history
Henry Faulds was a Scottish doctor, missionary and scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting. He was a missionary in Japan developing a hospital and a teaching facility for Japanese medical students.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Gertrude Alison Anderson edited 'The letters of Thomas Manning to Charles Lamb' published in 1926.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala was a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist, and artist. He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the Indian subcontinent. From 1939 to 1963, he was the director of the National Museum of Ceylon, and from 1961 to 1964,… read more
Name of creator
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence concerned with information about the collections. These are:
- Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, to Sir Alexander Johnstone, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the constitution of a bowl from Java which was made from an alloy … read more
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
- French