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In 1980, it was decided that there was no suitable candidate to receive the Gold Medal. This is recorded in the material in this series.

A leather bound portfolio containing two folders titled 'Kanheri Cave Plans' and 'Kanheri Drawings and Sketches'. There is also a notebook of notes taken by Walter West, as well as some loose handwritten notes and letters.

A leather bound portfolio containing two folders titled 'Kanheri Caves in Salsette: Descriptions and Notes' and 'Kanheri Caves in Salsette: Sundires'.

Documentary material created by Arthur West when donating the portfolios to Dr. Burgess in 1906. These include: a contents page, information about the West brothers and their work, numbered lists and correspondence.

The Minutes of the Editorial Board 2000-2003. These are computer printed material pasted into a lined A5 notebook with a red hardcover.

This card has a watercolour sketch of a compound into which a buffalo is being led to fight a tiger. The front shows the annotations B, D, H, T & G which are described on the reverse of the card: B is the buffalo, T is the tiger's cage, D is the dying tiger, H is the room from which the combat was viewed and G a building belonging to Charles Croftes.

These are 3 large sketches presumably by Lady Jones. Only one has an accompanying description which dates it to 17th March [1790]. This is a pencil sketch of a climbing plant in the Company's Botanical Gardens near Calcutta (Kolkata). The second sketch is in pencil with a single flower in colour but with no annotation. The third sketch is also in pencil with leaves and flower in colour.

Each of these three drawings has been given a reference number used in the Head catalogue, including 025.037, 025.067 and one from the sub-collection of 025.054-025.068 (likely 025.066 as the remaining numbers have all been assigned).

These are six small cards with drawings and inscriptions by Lady Jones. Each measures 7.8cm x 12cm with sketches in pencil and watercolour. There is a pencil sketch of a sanyasi, 2 watercolour pictures of Ramlochan, William Jones' Sanskrit teacher, sketches of a buffalo and a tiger, and of a fight compound.

Letter from Helen Wallis, British Museum Map Room, to Terence Armstrong. The British Museum had been unable to trace a photographic order for Allen's book 'Russian Embassies to Georgian Kings'. Therefore they ask that it be resubmitted. Dated: 8 January 1968.

Two Letters written by Sir Joseph Banks in 1797 regarding a donation of books made by Lady Anna Maria Jones to the Royal Society