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This file contains multiple copies of a blank printed membership certificate. This appears to be the diploma sent to Foreign Members by the Society to mark their election during the reign of George IV. The certificate contains the following text in Latin:

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Q. F. F. Q. S.

SOCIETAS ad Literas Asiaticas in Britanniis excolendas sub auspicis potentissimi Regis GeorgII IV. feliciter instituta

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in Sociorum suorum Exterorum numerum adscribi voluit; consessu solenni Londini habito, die [space] 18 [space]

Quod sub Societatis sigillo testantur

Praeses.
Director.
Secretarius.

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One of the copies has the word 'GeorgII IV' crossed out and annotated 'Victoria' in pencil. Measures 45 cm (h) x 37.2 cm (w).

Since its establishment the Society has maintained the tradition of sending a diploma to a newly elected Honorary Member to commemorate their membership. Foreign and Corresponding Members, before these two types of membership went obsolete, were also sent diplomas. The practice of issuing its Honorary Members a diploma was suspended during and after the Second World War and was revived at the decision of the Council at the meeting on 14 April 1966. Records show that Fellows elected as early as in 1945 were also sent their diplomas retrospectively when this practice was revived.

This sub-series contains copies of a diploma presumably intended for Foreign Members in 1820s, and several copies of a diploma dating from the pre-Second World War period, which were likely used as a template for the new design, and after 1969 when a new design was adopted.

Two copies of the Director's Note on the Financial Aspect of the Society's Removal from 74 Grosvenor Street to 56 Queen Anne Street, laying out the costs involved. One copy has been annotated by hand.

Director's Report for the Rural Life Programme, Church of North India

"Disaster Equipment Supplies" - list of items for use in a disaster. Electronic document.

This series contains Disaster plans in draft and final form and associated documents. It contains both printed and electronic documents.

A series of discourses on Muslim doctrine and ethics, said at its beginning to be the Kalām of Murtada (Murtaza) Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib which has been translated from a Persian rendering of the original Arabic into a dialect of "Western Hindustani" in a variety of the Khojki Sindh script. This information is obtained from a typed note which has been pasted into the volume and signed by Lionel David Barnett, dated March 1931.

"Disposal of Assets: A Memorandum from the Director". Notice from RAS Director, D.J. Duncanson to inform Fellows not present at the Special General Meeting of 9 December 1993 that there were no further disposals of material of historic interest under consideration or likely to be proposed in the foreseeable future. With this Memorandum is a copy of the "Appendix to Report of Council 1993" regarding the disposal of the Farquhar Albums of drawings of Malaysian wildlife in order to raise funds for the Society. Typed documents.

Letters of Acknowledgement of receipt of five volumes of Myanma Sway-Son Kyan and 50 volumes of the Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping given to the Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Two items.

Letter from The Warburg Institute to thank for the donation of two volumes presented to their Library. One item, dated 18 November 2010.