Brian Houghton Hodgson seemed to be a keen compiler of lists, often of his specimens and drawings, and of his donations to the scientific and oriental establishments of his day. These were sometimes needed for transportation or storing of the articles itemised. This series comprises of 20 lists.

List of Drawings Donated to the Anthropological Society of London. A list of the donated drawings and a copy of the accompanying letter. Handwritten, 3 pieces, 9 sides, dated 23 November 1880.

"On the Aborigines of the sub-Himálayas. To the Secretaries of the Asiatic Society of Bengal". Sent by Hodgson from Darjeeling in November 1847. Offprint without cover but with annotations by Hodgson, 12 pages including sheets of vocabulary, 1847.

"Grammatical construction of the Ho language - By Lieut. Tickell". Unbound offprint with Hodgson's annotations from Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1840. Printed by Bishop's College Press, 11 pages, 1840.

"Report on the Nurbudda Mission from the Rev. J.G. Driberg, Bishop's College: 10th October, 1847". A first report with some vocabulary of the Language of the Gonds. Printed pamphlet with no cover. On the first page Hodgson has written the title. Printed at Bishop's College Press, 1847.

"Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum by Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., late Resident in Nepal &c. &c. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Natural History Departments in the British Museum." Offprint with Hodgson's annotations first published in the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1849. Soft cover, 10 pages, dated 1849 with further date of 27 September 1860.

"Measuring of Human Races" by Robert Schlagintweit. Chart for undertaking the measuring of an individual. Printed material, undated, 2 copies.

Hodgson was very interested in the different tribes and languages of the Himalayan region. This set of manuscripts shows some of the research he undertook and the vocabularies that he compiled.

The material within this collection comprises of correspondence and publications by and about Richard Francis Burton and his wife Isabel Burton (nee Arundell). There are also two photographs of Burton and artefacts.

Also included within this Collection are correspondence concerning the acquisition of the material by the RAS and some supplementary material regarding Oscar Eckenstein, its original collector.

This series covers all the other correspondence with the Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson, It ranges in date from 1843 to 1880 and covers personal, political and research interests.