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Letter from D.S. Margoliouth to Colonel Hoysted, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, in which he notifies Colonel Hoysted that N.M. Penzer and Mr Gibb have been invited to form the Burton Memorial Medal Committee for the 1931 award. He writes about inscriptions which have now been deciphered and also discusses whether a Dr Nielsen's paper might be unpublishable due to its polemic.

Correspondence concerning the transliteration of scripts for use in the Journal. During the 1930s there was concern regarding the printing of non-Latin alphabet scripts. This generated correspondence and administrative documents:

• Correspondence concerning the transliteration of Tibetan. The main correspondents are F.W. Thomas, H.W. Bailey, D.S. Margoliouth and Colonel Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society. 16 pieces, dated 20 October 1937 - 31 October 1938.
• Correspondence concerning the transliteration of Chinese and Japanese script. The main correspondents are W. Perceval Yetts, S. Yoshutake, Sir Harold Parlett and Colonel Hoysted. 16 pieces, dated 26 July 1938- 1 December 1938.
• Correspondence and administrative documents concerning transliteration of all scripts. The main correspondents are the Deutsche Morgenlandische Gesellschaft, W. Perceval Yetts and Colonel Hoysted. 11 items, dated 11 January 1939 - 10 November 1939.

Letter from Professor Margoliouth to Ella Sykes, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose Austin's bill for the Centenary Volume which exceeds all estimates by at least a third. He hopes some of the deficit can be recovered from authors and from sales but accepts that he must bear the bulk of the loss personally and therefore offers to pay £75 in two moieties.