This archive consists of registers, lists and correspondence concerned with the acquisitions and accessions of the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to the Acquisitions of the Society can be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and in the Minute books for the Council and General Meetings. Accessions continue in the life of the Society. More recent ones are held in the Society's records management system and will be transferred to the archive in due course.
Sans titreThis series contains the Donations Register, 4 lists relating to acquisitions, and 11 pieces of correspondence.
Sans titreHandwritten bound book detailing the Donations to the Society within that time period. The donations are listed chronologically and there is an index of donors at the rear of the book.
Sans titreLetter from Sir Alexander Johnston to present to the RAS, "250 specimens of the different descriptions of wood, which are produced on the island of Ceylon". The letter gives details of the reason for their collection. Dated 21 June 1828, handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides.
Sans titreLetter from Sir Alexander Johnston presenting to the RAS, "48 Maps and Charts relative to different parts of the Island of Ceylon and its coast". Dated February 21, 1829, handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides.
Sans titreLetter from General Benjamin Forbes Gordon to Captain Henry Harkness, Royal Asiatic Society Secretary, concerning the donation, from his daughter, Maria Forbes, of two drawings by a Maltese artist, one of a Phoenician temple ruin on Island of Gozo; the second a copy of one of Newnham's Antiquities of Ireland. Dated Malta 11th April, 1834, 1 piece, 4 sides.
Sans titreThe Donations Register, 1 list, and eight letters pertaining to acquisitions of the Society in this time period.
Sans titreHandwritten bound book detailing the Donations to the Society within the time period. The donations are listed chronologically and there is an index of donors at the rear of the book.
Sans titreEight letters pertaining to items acquired by the Royal Asiatic Society in this time period.
Sans titreLetter from Henry Unwin Addington, Foreign Office, to Richard Clarke, Secretary to Royal Asiatic Society, regarding inquiries to be made at Constantinople respecting packages sent by Major Henry Rawlinson to the Embassy at Constantinople for transmission to England. Dated March 20, 1846, handwritten letter, 1 piece, 2 sides.
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