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Descriptions, plans and drawings from some of the Kanheri Topes These were also published in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 10th October 1861. These are:

• A draft descriptive paper.
• Plan and section of a Structural Tope.
• Unfinished duplicate of plan and section.
• Note of angles and dimensions.
• Plan and elevation of a small tope.
• Plan and elevation of capstone of small tope.
• Drawings of Sculptures of Structural Tope.
• Drawings of stones with inscriptions.
• Tracings of some of the drawings.

A paper containing detailed descriptions of the Caves in the Satara Districts. The paper was 'Communicated by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, Honorary President of the Society', presumably the Asiatic Society of Bombay.

Bernhard Dorn's, 'Description of the Celestial Globe belonging to Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G.C.B., K.L.S. &c., &c., deposited in the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'. This is an offprint of the article published in the Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society 1830, Volume II. The offprint contains two sketches on its inner front cover. With it is also a sheet of paper with Arabic script in ink and English annotations in pencil. There is also a letter from David [ ], Oriental and India Office Collections, The British Library, to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the offprint and ask if the whereabouts of the globe is known, dated 1 November 2001.

A Description of the Nasik Caves, originally written in pencil by A.A. West on the 16th September 1861 on site, and inked over some years later.

A description of the Prabhal hill- fort written by Henry West.

One loosely tied item of eleven, handwritten pages, describing the towns in the Pargana (administrative unit) of Azamgarh, with numbers of houses and religions comprising the population. Simon Digby notes that it was probably for an unpublished Gazetteer.

Description of the 26 Kura caves written by Edward William West.

A list of descriptions of the 'Invocations' groups of sculpture from Kanheri, Ajanta and Aurangabad.

Descriptions of items loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum by the Royal Asiatic Society. Each item is on an individual piece of paper, many of which have been annotated by Head. There are also black and white photographs of four of the items.

Detailed descriptions by E.W. West and A.A.West of the Ajanta caves and their locality.