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"Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: A Short Sketch, Together with his Notes on the Botany of the Rocky Mountains". Reprinted from Nature, October 25 1877. The cover has the inscription "With Lady Hooker's best regards". Printed pamphlet with a biography of Hooker by Asa Gray, May 1877, and Hooker's own article on the Botany of the Rocky Mountains. Printed material, 1 item, 1877.

This letter from Joseph Banks asks Lady Jones to request that [Doctor Breten] puts in writing about the book belonging to him that was wrongly included in a donation by Lady and Sir William Jones to the Royal Society.

The letter concerns a book wrongly donated to the Royal Society by Lady Jones' that belongs to the Reverend [Boulter] and asking that the gentleman would claim it from the Royal Society apartments.

Sir Joseph Banks writes that he does not consider that Mr [Wilkins] needs any assistance but if Major [Barclay] wishes to ask directly then Mr Wilkins can accept or decline as he wishes.

The final paragraph of the letter reports to Lady Jones how well her donation was received at the Royal Society.

Lists created in 1998 concerning the donations from the Sir George Thomas Staunton collection held at the Society.

A set of 7 newspaper cuttings from 17th and 18th March to announce the conferment of the Gold Medal on Sir Dension Ross. Most lead with the heading "Sir Denison Ross Honoured". Seven cuttings glued on to a single sheet of paper.

"Sir Aurel Stein Honoured: Gold Medal of the Royal Asiatic Society". Newspaper cutting from The Times for 17 June 1932 with a report of the presentation of the Gold Medal to Aurel Stein by Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India.

Catalogues and handlists for manuscripts in the Sino-Tibetan group of languages:

• 'Four Tibetan Mongolian Mss. given to the Royal Asiatic Society by the Rev'd Robert Yuille - as identified and numbered by Professor Charles Bawden in March 1978' - typed list of the manuscripts, 1 piece.

Electronic document - archival document created in 2024.

• 'CHINESE MANUSCRIPTS' - box list for the Chinese manuscripts in the Society's collections, first created in 2008.

The item is an original Gogerly manuscript of different suttas from the Dhammapada text, written in Sinhalese language. The Sinhalese text with notes and explanations in English occupies 20 pages, whereas the last 5 reversed pages of the notebook is a handwritten account of Gogerly's expenditures. The remaining 23 pages are left blank. Brownish paper, brown ink. Written in Sri Lanka, date unknown. The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form (423 verses) and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuḍḍaka Nikāya, a division of the Pāli Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, and was written around the 3rd century BCE. Each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community. 21cmX15.7cm.

Two manuscript versions of a Sinhala-English dictionary, one of 241 pages and the other of 214 pages on foolscap paper. There are also some supplementary pages and some index pages associated with these manuscripts. The date of writing of these manuscripts is unknown but from the paper and ink they would appear to have been undertaken in the early to mid twentieth century. Both manuscripts are in the same hand.

Series contains material relating to Tibbett's role as consultant in the Sindbad voyage project (1980-1981), which was led by Tim Severin. This was an attempt to recreate the fictional voyage of Sindbad the sailor in the publication 'The book of one thousand and one nights.' This involved creating a replica of an early Arab trading ship and completing a 6,000 mile journey to sail it all the way to China. Most of this material concerns the Heritage of Oman festival which sponsored the voyage.