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Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library; and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987 0ctober to December, 1988, February to June, 1988-89, 1989-90.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library; and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-74, 1974-75, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80. The card for 1975-76 is a photocopy of the original.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library, and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for January -June 1990, 1990-91, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994- 95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000.

Notices for Summer Lecture Series:

• 14 May - 9 July 1996 - 'Islamic Culture and the European Traditions' held at the Wellcome Institute Auditorium.
• 22 April - 10 June 1997 - 'Empire and Identity: Ruler and Realm in Early Asia', held at the Wellcome Institute Auditorium.

• 21 April - 9 June 1998 - 'Archaeology and the nation in Asia: Issues of Power and Identity' held with the Institute of Archaeology, University of London.

  Change of Lecture, Date or Venue Notices:

• 14 March 1991: Shelagh Vainker, 'Early Chinese Textiles in the British Museum'.
• 13 June 1991: Dr Giles Tillotson, 'The Indian Travels of William Hodges'.
• 10 June 1993: Doreen Ingrams, 'Journeys in the Hadhramaut in the 1930s and 1940s', Burton Memorial lecture.
• 9 December 1993: Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville, 'The Gold of Sofala: from East Africa to India and China'.
• 20 April 1994: F. Nigel Hepper and Professor Ib Friis introduce a film about the Niebuhr Expedition to Egypt and the Yemen 1761-1767 with an account of the plants collected by Forsskal.

Printed cards detailing the dates of the meeting for 1865 and 1868-9.

Minutes of Meetings held between Royal Asiatic Society and Cambridge University Press to discuss matters of Journal production for 12 July 1990, 14 July 2003, 15 December 2006, 22 May 2008, May 2008, 1 December 2008, 27 November 2009, 16 April 2013, 6 May 2015, 27 April 2016, 20 April 2017 and 12 April 2018.

Correspondence and report concerning the Meeting of the Bureau of the International Council of Orientalists at Faarevejle-Bjergene, Denmark on 19 September 1965.

Meetings of the Trustees - notification of meetings and minutes from the annual meetings of the Trustees.

Megson's Travellers' Order Book containing copies of Oscar Eckenstein's correspondence with N.M. Penzer concerning Eckenstein's Burton Collection. It includes a letter from Penzer’s solicitor to Eckenstein dated 17th December 1920 threatening legal action because of Eckenstein’s refusal to proceed with the sale of his Burton collection to Penzer, and one from Eckenstein’s solicitor to Eckenstein dated 23rd December 1920 discussing the possibility of a settlement. (The record of the correspondence between Penzer and Eckenstein breaks off at this point. Eckenstein died April 8 1921).

There is also a letter from Margery Cham to Lewis C. Loyd, from “The Cave, Oving" (Eckenstein’s former home), dated 8 December 1922, saying that she was sending all that she could find of copies of Eckenstein’s letters to Penzer.

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

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.