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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 Simon Digby notes that it was probably for an unpublished Gazetteer.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.

Documents detailing the history and contents of the Library. These are:

• 'The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1823-1990' - document outlining the history concerning the acquisition and disposal of collections and discussing future possibilities. Typed, 19 pieces.
• 'The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society 1923-1990 by Mike Pollock' - an article outlining the history of the Library and its then current layout and operations. Typed, 1 piece.
• 'The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society and its Collections relating to South-east Asia' - a document giving an account of the Library and its South-east Asian collections in particular. The author and date of writing is unknown but it appears from the document that it was written by a previous Librarian. Typed, 11 pieces.
• 'The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society' - documents give details of the contents of the Collections and their access. Typed, 2 pieces, unknown date.
• 'The Library of the Royal Asiatic Society 1823-1997' - an article about the Library and the Collections created by T.V. Finery as part of their Library and Information Studies course, University College, London. Typed, 12 pieces, dated 22 April 1998.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society 1823-1998' - list of the Librarians and Honorary Librarians who served within this time period. Typed, 2 pieces.

"A Descriptive Catalogue of the Paintings, Statues, Framed Prints, Copper Plates and Other Curiosities in he Rooms of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, by C.R. Wilson, M.A., corrected up to April 1897." Pamphlet describing the Society's collections, published by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1897.