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Letter from A. D. H. Bivar returning the biographical information (not there) of Dr Agam Prasad Mathur, Vice-Chancellor of Agra University, which he received earlier, for the record of the Society, dated 3 August 1981.

Letter from Michael Winter enclosing details of his recently deceased father Dr H. J. J. Winter, a Fellow of the Society, dated 14 March 1985.

Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Members in the 1930s. These are mostly outgoing letters from the Society informing individuals the nomination and asking for their acceptance, and replies from the members, and in some cases contain other printed material such as obituaries and news clippings as attachments. Additional correspondence with or relating to the members have been filed together.

Elected 1932
Professor Heinrich Luders
Professor Th. Stcherbatsky (Fyodor Shcherbatskoy)
Sir Jaganji Jamshedji Modi
Professor August Fischer

Elected 1933
Dr Ernest Herzfeldt, with additional correspondence regarding a planned lecture at RAS on his discovery in Persepolis, Iran

Elected 1934
Professor Moritz Winternitz

Elected 1935
Mirza Muhammad Khan Qazvini
Professor Wilhelm Geiger
Professor Georges Coedes, with a notice of death in the 1970s

Elected 1936
Professor H. E. Winlock
Professor A. J. Wensinck

Elected 1937
Professor Jules Bloch
Professor Carl Brockelmann
Professor J. Ph. Vogel, with further correspondence with the Netherlands Ministry for the Colonies regarding his death in 1943
Mahamahopadhyaya Ganganath Jha
Professor Rene Dussaud

Elected 1938
Professor Arthur Christensen
Professor Jean Przyluski

Elected 1939
Professor E. Levi-Provencal

Correspondence between the Society and its Honorary Members dating from the mid-1970s to early 2000s. These are mostly letters concerning suggestions for candidates, proposals for Council and membership invitation, with replies from the members.

Elected 1975
Professor Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1978
Professor Paul Balog
Professor Joshua Blau
Professor Claude Cahen
Professor Kazuo Enoki
Professor Inalcik Halil
Professor Tadeusz Lewicki
Professor Hajime Nakamura
Professor H. K. Sherwani
Professor D. E. Hettiaratchi

Elected 1984
Professor Sukumar Sen

Elected 1985
Mr Hirad C. Chaudhuri
Professor Juan Vernet Gines
Professor M. C. Subhadradis Diskul
Professor B. N. Mukherjee
Academician M. I. Useinov

Elected 1991
Dr Ivan Hrbek
Professor Erik Zurcher
Professor Tatsuro Yamamoto
Professor Walther Heissig
Professor Jonas C. Greenfield
Professor A. K. Narain
Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani
Dr Firoze M. Kotwal
Professor A. A. Duri
Professor David Ayalon
Professor Jane Aubin
Mrs Eveline Poree-Maspero (already passed away at the time of invitation)
Elizabeth Samson

Elected 1993
Professor Dieter Schlingloff
Dr Parmeshwari Lal Gupta
Professor Paul Thieme
The Reverend Professor Michele Piccirillo

Elected 1998
Mr Hugh Bett (Fellow honoris causa)
Dr Robert Jones (Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence:

• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar informing the Society of the death of Professor Emile Benveniste (elected 1946), dated March 1977
• Letters from Mr J Nagar nominating M. M. Nagar, former Director of State Museum and Archaeology in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a Honorary Fellow, with details of his qualifications, and reply from the Society, dated April 1977
• Letter from Jean Naudou, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Civilisation at University of Lille III, informing the Society of the death of Professor Philippe Stern (elected 1948), dated May 1979
• Letter from Denis Sinor, Distinguished Professor of Uralic-Altaic Studies at Indiana University, informing the Society of the death of Professor W. Norman Brown (elected 1952), Deny and S. Elisseef (elected 1955), dated January 1980
• Letter from S. K. Punjya from University of Warwick recommending Juan Mascaro, a Sanskrit scholar, as an Honorary Fellow, with a memorandum from Professor J. C. Wright from SOAS giving his opinion on Juan Mascaro, 1985-1986
• Documents relating to proposal for Honorary Fellows 1994, including a letter from Dr G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, proposing architect Isam Awwad (also a RAS member), with a relevant news clipping; and a CV of Professor Gregory Bongard-Levin. With a note saying ‘not yet considered’
• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar relaying a request from Professor A. H. Dani for possible consideration of Professor Mohammad Salim as an Honorary Member, with details of qualifications, dated January 2004

In the Annual General Meeting on 12 May 1932, the Council passed a resolution that the Ambassador or Minister of every Oriental Power accredited to the Court of St. James' should be invited to become a Foreign Extraordinary Member of the Society, under the terms of Rule 10 of the Charter, which stipulated that ‘Foreign potentates or distinguished officials of Oriental Powers may be admitted by the Council to be Foreign Extraordinary Members’.

This sub-series contains the invitation letters sent to these individuals and further correspondence relating to the election of Foreign Extraordinary Members.

This sub-series contains photographs and prints of or relating to members and the Society's other membership undertakings.