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Index of maps from the 1984 tour of India compiled during cataloguing

The 'Index of Languages' taken from the 'Historical Catalogue of the Printed Editions of Holy Scripture in the Library of the British and Foreign Bible Society' by Horace Frederick Moule and Thomas Herbert Darlow, London, 1903-1911. This is a handwritten copy made into a table over 72 sheets with the headings Language, Where Spoken, Family of Languages, Characters used by Bible Society for printing, and Remarks. With the index is a typed covering page which indicates that this is not a complete list but comprises only of those languages and dialects into which the Bible had been translated. At the top of the page the date 1936 has been crossed out and replaced with 1937.

Note cards for index of Unreason within Reason .

A draft of index, contents and summary of chapters for Duncanson's 'Government and Revolution in Vietnam' from 1965.

Correspondence and notes concerning the compilation of the index.

Incomplete letter from William MacBean George Colebrooke to Alexander Johnston in which he writes concerning the two individuals that he would be gratified to be the means of bringing their great merit to the knowledge of the African Institution. He writes also of the Java Institution and in a postscript that he is about to embark. Handwritten, 3 sides with further side for address and label.

Incomplete letter from Joseph Hooker to Brian Houghton Hodgson from Pemiongchi, Sikkim, in which he writes of his explorations. He had been travelling with Campbell who had left that morning for Darjeeling and will go on to [Tetulga]. He describes the Bhatiyas at Sikkim and compares them with those of Bhutan and Nepal. He describes the temples at Tapiding where "vishnus and sivas with accompanying obscenities abound". He writes concerning the geology of the areas - upper layers granite and lower of stratified rock. Handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 2 January [1848-1850].

Incomplete draft of Reflections and Replies by Angus Graham.

Description: Black softcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 53 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Incipient sketch of vocabulary" Pahlavi-English Dictionary with references to Denkart.

Description: Blue and green patterned hard cover notebook with unruled blue pages, written in ink. Single insert. Identified as West 60 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: An Avestic glossary transliterated, with sparse references.
Inserts: An extremely short note where symbols are drawn next to "vendidad," "yasna," Gatha," etc.