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The Society had a tradition of including a list of members in its Journal to encourage communications between members. These give the names of those serving on the Council and committees, and the names of the Society's officers, and list all members' names, addresses, the year in which they were elected and their type of membership in a given year. Members who have resigned, passed away in the past year or fail to pay their subscriptions for a given period are removed from the list.

Starting from 1930s the list was published separately from the Journal in a pamphlet form. This series primarily contains these printed pamphlets and other lists of members prepared by the Society's officers for administrative purposes over the years.

These are leaflets providing information about the Society’s history, activities and membership (terms, benefits and subscriptions, etc), followed by a blank Certificate of Recommendation or Membership Application form. These include:

• one B&W version produced between 1917 and 1921, signed by Lord Reay, RAS President from 1893 to 1921 (1 copy)
• one B&W version produced between 1923 and 1947 (2 copies)
• four slightly different B&W versions produced between 1998 and 2004 (5 copies)
• one colour version produced in 2004 (4 copies)
• one colour version produced in [2006], same design with the previous one but with the Society's address updated to 14 Stephenson Way (2 copies)

Historically, anyone who was desirous of becoming a member of the Society must secure a proposal by current member(s) when submitting an application. This series contains the papers submitted by individuals for applying membership and lists of applicants prepared for the Council meetings, where applications are reviewed and new members are elected.

Tables including membership figures and analysis of subscriptions from 1995 to 2002, compiled by Adrian Thomas, RAS Secretary, for reporting to the Events & House Committee.

Membership Card for the Royal Societies' Club for foreign visitors to the Centenary of the Royal Asiatic Society, from 16-21 July 1923.

This sub-series includes documents created by the Society's officers to facilitate the administration of membership.

Files concerned with membership of the Society:

• Draft Membership Prospectus - leaflet explaining the purposes of the Society and how to become a member, undated.
• 'ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY - Shanghai – List of Fellows, Last up-date: 25 May 2007' list of Fellows as of 25 May 2007.

"List of Life Members Up to: 1991" - a typed list of the Life Members of the Asiatic Society bearing the annotation 'Read 25 Feb 1993'.

Members of Council and Sub-Committees were asked to sign their attendance at the meetings. These five hardback notebooks contain these signatures. They cover the time periods: 9 June 1925 - 13 February 1936, 12 March 1936 - 3 October 1974, 10 October 1974 - 14 December 1995, 11 January 1996 - 25 May 2006, and 15 June 2006 - 12 June 2014

Completed and signed forms by members giving their personal details (name, address, e-mail and address) and interests, to be included in the next List of Fellows published by the Society. Includes some Form A signed by the members.