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The Congress name was subsequently altered to the International Congress of North African and Asian Studies. The 34th Congress was held in Hong Kong in August 1993. The material associated with this Congress is:

• Correspondence between Gyorgy Hazai, Secretary-General, International Union for Oriental and Asian Studies, and A.D.H. Bivar, President, Royal Asiatic Society, concerning the Society's representation at the Congress in Hong Kong and points for the Agenda for the meeting of the Union to be held there. Two letters, dated 17 May - 2 June 1993.

'Copy of a letter addressed to Col. Sykes by Dr. Gutzlaff, dated Hong Kong, 24 January 1851' in which he writes of the difficulties of interpreting the Buddhist literature as it is in verse and he cannot find anyone that can give an adequate explanation of it. He writes that the ancient literature writes of pilgrims between India and China and of the difference in Buddhism between the two countries.

He also writes of the statistical investigation of the country and information that he is gleaning from merchants. He writes that the Royal Asiatic Society will publish his Japanese grammar.

"Hong Kong, Singapore in Sight" by Quaritch Wales from The Star Weekly, Toronto, 18th March 1944, p.14.

The International Congress of Orientalists, initiated in Paris in 1873, was an international conference of Orientalists. It was later renamed as the International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa and then as the International Congress of Asian and North African Studies. This material covers the interaction of the Royal Asiatic Society with the Congress in the time period 1889 to 1993.

Albums and single cuttings of newspaper articles. mostly written by Quaritch Wales. The contents concern the history and politics of India, China and other countries in Southeast Asia.

The Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales contain papers relating to his archaeological work in southeast Asia including expedition notes, personal notebooks, diaries, manuscript proofs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and maps. Listed within this catalogue are objects and items of furniture which were also part of the bequest of Quaritch Wales' wife, Dorothy, to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Throughout its history the Royal Asiatic Society has made links with various universities. Perhaps most notable is that with the School of Oriental Studies (Now School of African and Oriental Studies), University of London, for which the Royal Asiatic Society had a representative on the Governing Body for many years. Material in these papers includes connections between the Royal Asiatic Society and the School for Oriental Studies, the University of Catania, Sicily, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Hong Kong, and the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford.

Material concerned with the Jubilee Celebration of the University of Hong Kong in 1961. These are:

• Invitation from the University of Hong Kong to the Royal Asiatic Society to invite them to send a delegate to share in their Jubilee celebrations to take place on 18-21 September 1961. Printed, dated November 1960.
• "University of Hong Kong 1911-1961 Golden Jubilee Congress". Printed booklet giving information of the Congress to be held to mark the Jubilee.
• Letter from K.M.A. Barnett to Sir Richard Winstedt, Director, Royal Asiatic Society, to accept the honour of representing the Society at the Jubilee celebrations. He apologises for his delay in replying but needed the consent of the Colonial Secretary before accepting. Handwritten, dated 21 February 1961.
• Letter from Sir Richard Winstedt, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to the University of Hong Kong to send felicitations on their jubilee and congratulations on the growing success of the University. Typed, dated 28 July 1961.
• Letter from K.M.A. Barnett to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to report that he represented the Society at the Jubilee congregation, that he made a token presentation, was received at the Senate luncheon and participated in the Jubilee Congress. Typed with printed letterhead, dated 19 September, 1961.