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This series contains correspondence regarding the donation of the Royal Asiatic Society Museum collection to the India Museum at the India Office.

The Donations Register, a list and correspondence pertaining to acquisitions in this period.

Ten letters pertaining to acquisitions in this time period.

Letter from India Office to Richard Clarke, Royal Asiatic Society, to send on behalf of the Secretary of State for India, "a copy of the Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Observatory at Bombay during the year 1857". Handwritten, 1 side, dated 31 March 1860.

Letter from J.C. Melvill, India Office, to Reinhold Rost, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to acknowledge his letter and to inform that the Secretary of State for India is pleased to sanction temporary accommodation in the India Office Museum for the collections of the Society and that they will be exhibited as far as practicable. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 18 March 1869.

This archive consists of lists and correspondence concerned with the disposal of items in the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to Disposals of the Society may be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and in the Minute books for the Council and General Meetings. Disposals may 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.