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'Buried with the Buddha' by Vicki Mackenzie from The Times Online, 21 March 2004, downloaded in 2008 concerning the investigation by Paul Seto of the Buddhist relics.

Size: 20x25 cm
Area: Thailand and Burma

This appears to be a proof for a book plate. Traced map mounted on card with place names added.

"Burma in Allied Hands Soon Will Open New Vistas to Beat Japs" by Quaritch Wales from The Star Weekly, Toronto, 30th December 1944, p.7.

Letter from Dr Khin Zaw Win to the President, Royal Asiatic Society, to invite the Society to establish a branch in Rangoon (Yangon) and to offer his help with such a Society. Typed, dated 19 December 1986.

Scale: 1:4,000,000
Size: 50x85 cm
Creator: The Geographical Institute, Edinburgh
Publisher: Bartholomew and Son, Ltd.
Date of Publishing: 1953
Area: Burma, Malaya, including the South of China.

"Burmese Stumbling-Block" by Quaritch Wales from The NATION, 19th June 1943, pp.859-861.

"Burton Memorial Fund" - a printed pamphlet to advertise the Burton Memorial Fund and ask for subscriptions. The front cover bears a portrait of Burton from the Royal Geographical Society Collections.

Prototype or draft for the invitation card for the Burton Memorial Lecture to be given by Mrs Doreen Ingrams on "Journeys in the Hadhramawt in the 1930s and 1940s".

"Burushaski and its Alien Neighbours: Problems in Linguistic Contagion" by Lieut.-Col. D.L.R. Lorimer, C.I.E., read at a meeting of the Philological Society on Friday, 4 December 1936 and reprinted from the Philological Society's Transactions 1937, pp.63-98. Printed pamphlet with soft cover.

Business card for the funeral directors, Arthur W. Bruce Ltd.