RAS Draft Disaster Plan on a Harwell Template (short) Emergency Plan. Partially completed Disaster Plan covering the RAS Collections. Electronic document.
Sem título"Royal Asiatic Society Emergency Plan" detailing procedures and priorities in the event of an emergency affecting the Collections. Typed document.
Sem título"Royal Asiatic Society Emergency Plan 2015" detailing procedures and priorities concerning the Collections in the event of an emergency. Electronic document.
Sem título"Royal Asiatic Society Library" - access document concerning The Library, General Rules, Loans, and Reprographics. Electronic document,
Sem títuloPolicy documents concerning the loan of items from the collections to other institutions:
- 'Borrowing items from the Royal Asiatic Society Collections for public exhibitions: Policy and Procedures' - policy document created for the Council Meeting of 16 June 2005.
This archive consists of lists and correspondence concerned with the disposal of items in the Collections of the Society. The Society has not kept comprehensive records throughout its history. Further information pertaining to Disposals of the Society may be found in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society and in the Minute books for the Council and General Meetings. Disposals may continue in the life of the Society. More recent ones are held in the Society's records management system and will be transferred to the archive in due course.
Sem títuloThis series contains correspondence regarding the donation of the Royal Asiatic Society Museum collection to the India Museum at the India Office.
Sem títuloLetter from Reinhold Rost, Secretary of Royal Asiatic Society, to H. Merivale, His Majesty's Under Secretary of State for India, to ask whether the collections constituting the Society's Oriental Museum may be placed in safe custody at the India Museum due to the imminent move of the Society from its premises in New Burlington Street to smaller premises in Albermarle Street. The request is for temporary accommodation with the hope that amalgamation of the two collections may be approved in the future. Typed letter, 2 pages, dated 16 February 1869.
Sem títuloFour items of correspondence concerning Formosa manuscripts no longer in the possession of the Society. These are:
- Letter from the Japanese Embassy to present its compliments to the Royal Asiatic Society and to seek permission for Mr. Siichi Iwao, Assistant Professor at Taihoku Imperial University to visit the Society. Typed, 1 side, dated 1 April 1932.
- Letter from Siichi Iwao to the Royal Asiatic Society to ask whether nine sheets of Formosa manuscripts were available to be seen at the Society which had been donated by E. Colborne Baber. Handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 8 April 1932.
- Letter to Sir James Stewart Lockhart, Mr Hopkins, Mr Yett and Sir R. Johnston from Colonel Hoysted to ask about the manuscripts and whether they were borrowed by Dr. de Lacouperie and not returned to the Society on his death. Typed, 1 piece, dated 13 April 1932.
- Letter from Reginald Johnston to Colonel Hoysted to state that he felt it was strange that Dr. de Lacouperie was allowed to take the manuscripts away without a guarantee that they would be returned and that the Society in those days had shown slackness in not claiming them on his death. Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides, dated 26 April 1932.
"Prince Damrong: A Great Statesman and Scholar", by Quaritch Wales, reprinted from "The Asiatic Review", October Issue, 1932. P. 650-656. Pamphlet with title page.