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Catalogues and handlists for the maps in the Society's collections. The digital documents were created as archival documents in 2024.

• Card catalogue - handwritten descriptions of the maps on index cards.

Electronic Documents

• 'Maps list with dimensions highlighted' - first created in 2019 and modified in 2021. Excel document.
• 'Philip Jagessar map List' - first created in 2021. Philip Jagessar, as a postdoctoral researcher, researched and listed the Society's map collection. Excel document.
• 'Maps of Arabia in the Royal Asiatic Society collections' - first created in 2021, pdf document.

Maps of Thailand, Burma, Malay Peninsular, India, Pacific Ocean and related areas.

A series of three hand-drawn maps showing the routes taken by Fleming Mackenzie.

Maps collected by Storey. These are:

A set of maps of the Badakhshan- Wakhan region of Afghanistan compiled and edited by Exploration Pamir 75, the Austrian Scientific Research Programme, 1975, in the Wakhan-Pamir region of Afghanistan. The expedition was directed by R. Senerciens de Grancy and R. Kostka and sponsored by the Austrian Alpine Club, the Austrian Council for the Promotion of Scientific Research, the provincial governments of the Tyrol and Styria and numerous other sponsors. Printed in German and English. The editions in this collection are :

• Topographhische Karte - Topographic Map - Koh-e Pamir (Koh-i-Pamir) 1:50000
• Gletscherkarte - Glacier map - Darrah-e Issik-e Balal - Upper Issik Valley 1:25000
• Vegetation und Geologie - Vegetation and Geology - Darrah-e Issik-e Payan - Lower Issik Valley 1:25000
• Geologische Karte - Geological Map - Pamir-e Wakhan Dardistan 1:250000
• Die Ortschaft - Village of - Ptukh 1:5000

There is also one other map:

• Kart van Java door S.H. Serné. Lithographis van J. Smulders & Co. te's Hage, 1886. Map of the island of Java, scale 1: 1600000

Scale: 1:1,000,000 and 1:25000
Size: 50x80 cm
Area: Thailand and Bangkok

These are complimentary maps from a magazine - two sided and covered in plastic.

Collection of maps of India used by Barbara Ingham on her travels

A series of four maps of Thailand. They cover: Chiangmai (Jienghmai) Nagorn Sridharmaraj (Nakhon Si Thammarat) Bangkok Songkhla (Songala)

"A religious song - recorded by M. Dwarká Prasád, teacher of Chi village school, Dahaká (illegible totally) of Mainpuri": Mast hain puré sadhu faqír… With translation: The saints are really perfect madmen… Unsigned but in Rámgharíb Chaubé's hand. Handwritten, 3 sides, undated.

Correspondence, insurance quotes, and indemnity certificates concerning the permanent loan of material to the British Museum. This material consists of:

• The commemorative inscription of the Ananta-Vasudeva temple at Bhuvanesvar, dated 1278 A.D.
• Three Ujjain copper-plate grants of the rulers of Malwa
  *. The Taxila Plate of Patika.
• Other stone inscriptions

These items were already at the British Museum before the first letter dated 6 June 1967 and have remained there. The correspondence includes some to confirm that the material is still with the British Museum. Much of the correspondence are photocopies of original letters. 67 items.

Thomas Manning was admitted to Cambridge University to study mathematics. He was very able and though did not graduate, he continued in teaching position at Cambridge for some time beforel he travelled to France to study Chinese. He was keen to develop new theorems. He published a mathematical text and corresponded with other mathematicians.

His interest in mathematics was lifelong - this subseries contains notes made on the back of letters postmarked as late as 1837.

There are both notebooks, one of which appears to be a manuscript for a book, and assorted loose notes and calculations.