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The Sir Richard Burton Medal – On 12 April 1921 the Council of the RAS agreed to found a Richard Burton memorial lecture in commemoration, that year, of the 100th anniversary of Burton's birth. A fund was established to finance the lecture and by 1923, £60 had been subscribed. It was decided in March 1923 that part of this would be used to fund the Burton Medal. This would be awarded to the person chosen to deliver the lecture, which was to deal with Burton, his travels or some suitable subject of exploration. The presentation and the lecture would take place triennially. The medal was designed in 1924 by Pinches, to be cast in silver and gilded. In practice those chosen to give the Burton lecture were expected to have undertaken exploration and research in the East, and more particularly in close association with local people, or in difficult circumstances.

This archive contains papers pertaining to the inauguration and awarding of the Sir Richard Burton Medal. The Papers includes:

• Correspondence
• Administrative documents
• Printed materials including newspaper articles
• Examples of the Medal
• Photographs

The International Union of Orientalists was founded in September 1951 in Istanbul at the International Congress of Orientalists. It was renamed in 1973 as the International Union for Oriental and Asian Studies. This material covers the interaction of the Royal Asiatic Society with the Union in the time period 1951-1977.

An administrative document and correspondence concerning the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on Sir John Bagot Glubb.

Correspondence concerned with the conferment of the Burton Memorial Medal on John Glubb.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to agree to serve on the Selection Committee.

Letter from Hamilton Gibb to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that the Committee recommend Major J.B. Glubb to receive the Burton Medal. With this letter is the official recommendation signed by all the Committee Members. Both the letter and the recommendation are annotated in Hoysted's hand to state that the Council accepted the nomination and a letter had been sent to Major Glubb.

The Gibb Memorial Trust was established in 1902 in memory of Elias John Wilkinson Gibb, a largely self-taught Arabic, Persian, and, above all, of Ottoman Turkish, died age 45 in 1901 and his mother established the Trust. These papers mainly cover the period 1927-1951 and consists of governance, finance and publication documents, produced mainly as a result of Charles Ambrose Storey's involvement as a Trustee of the Trust.

Papers and Correspondence produced in the governance of the Gibb Memorial Trust.

Correspondence concerned with the governance of the Trust and the trustees.

Change of Address card for Professor and Mrs H.A.R. Gibb for their new home in Oxford. Sent to C.A. Storey.