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The material available for Meetings of the Library Committee in the years 1967-1970. They consist of:

• List of Library Committee Members 1966
• Minutes of the First Meeting of the Library Committee, 10 March 1966
• Agenda for Library Committee, 8 June 1967
• Draft minutes of a meeting of the Library Committee, 8 June 1967
• Agenda for Library Committee Meeting, 20 June 1968
• Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 20 June 1968
• Agenda for Library Committee Meeting, 15 September 1970
• Minutes for Library Committee Meeting, 15 September 1970

Correspondence and Printed Material regarding the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, and his work.

The series consists of administrative notices and correspondence with potential candidates.

Within this series there is correspondence concerning the conferment of the Medal and its Presentation and allied lecture; correspondence concerning the procurement of the Medal; correspondence with media; an invitation card for the Presentation; and newspaper cuttings.

This series contains, the notice concerning the Prize Essay, correspondence and a copy of the Prize-winning essay.

This series contains 2 copies of the printed notice about the Essay Competition and a letter from Professor W. Simon concerning one of the entries.

The 26th International Congress of Orientalists was held in New Delhi in 1963. These papers concern preparatory organisation. They are:

• Letter from the International Union of Orientalists to the Royal Asiatic Society to enclose the minutes of their meeting in Tokyo, October 1961, and the statutes of the Union. They ask for the Society's to remit their quota to enable the work towards the next Congress. Typed, dated 3 May 1962.
• Letter from the International Union of Orientalists to the Royal Asiatic Society to follow up on their letter of 3 May as they had not yet received a reply from the Society. Typed, dated 3 July 1962.

This series contains correspondence and photographs relating to the award of the Burton Memorial Medal to Cecil John Edmonds.

• Correspondence from D.K Bassett, University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpar, to Richard Winstedt, President, Royal Asiatic Society. Two typed letters, dated 30 July 1962, one to inform of proposed change of name of the Malayan Branch and to ask regarding legal clarification of the designation, "Royal"; the second regarding an article of Bassett's published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on the East India Company in Cambodia.
• Correspondence between the Secretaries of the two Societies concerning reciprocal member privileges. Two letters, typed, dated 30 January-17 July 1967.
• Correspondence concerning the exchange of the Journals of the two Societies. Three letters, typed with handwritten inserts and typed, dated 28 February 1969-1 August 1969.
• Newspaper cutting from the Daily Telegraph, entitled "Slow Police" concerning a history of the Malayan police in the Journal of the Malayan Branch, dated 26 April 1969.
• Correspondence between Jennifer M. Scarce, Assistant Keeper, The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, and Diana Crawford, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning locating an article from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Two letters, typed, dated 20 May-29 May 1969.
• Correspondence between Rayner Norton and the Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society regarding obtaining an article from the Journal of the Malaysian Branch. Two letters, handwritten and typed, dated 3 May-9 June 1970.

There is a letter from Minorsky to Sir Richard Winstedt, President of the Royal Asiatic Society, concerning his award of the Medal. There is a further note, in unknown hand, concerning the costs of Gold Medals, up to and including that of Minorsky.

For further details concerning the conferment of the Medal, please see Related Material.