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"The Aborigines of India" by Brian Houghton Hodgson. Printed by J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, Calcutta, 1847. Title page gives name of work as "Essay the First: Kocch, Bódo and Dhimál Tribes in Three Parts. Part I - Vocabulary, Part II - Grammar, Part III - Location, Numbers, Creed, Customs, Condition, and Physical and Moral Characteristics of the People". This work is heavily annotated by Hodgson, possibly a proof copy in which he is writing corrections. Printed bound book with handwritten material, 1847.

"Some Account of the Bronchocele, or Goitre of Nipal and of the Cis, and Trans-Himalayan Regions" by M.J. Bramley, Esq. Presented to the Medical Society of Calcutta on the 3rd November 1832 and Printed in the 6th Vol. of Transactions" Soft cover offprint with inscription on front cover in which Hodgson has written "NB. All the general matter of the paper - i.e. all but the medical portion was supplied by me to Dr. B". Within the pages are two loose newspaper cuttings; one on exchange rates and the other on information requested by the Revenue and Customs Officers of the Western provinces. Printed material with handwritten notes on front cover, 84 pages, dated 1832.

"Sifán and Hórsók Vocabularies, with another special exposition in the wide range of Mongolian affinities and remarks on the lingual and physical characteristics of the family. - By B.H. Hodgson, Esq." Offprint from the Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1874, without cover. Annotated by Hodgson. Printed material, 31 pages, with handwritten annotations, 1874.

Rough lists of Ethnographical and Architectural drawings, literary matters, Summary of heads of matters contained in drawings and MSS to guide Khardan in listing them. Handwritten lists, 3 pieces, 8 sides, dated 1845-1852.

"Researches in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Comparative Philology, Mythology and Archaeology in connection with the Origin of Culture in America and the Accad or Sumerian Families by Hyde Clarke" Printed Pamphlet published by N Trübner & Co., London. Hodgson has inscribed his own title and date of reception on the front cover but has not annotated the material. Soft bound pamphlet, 74 pages, dated 1875.

"Report on the Nurbudda Mission from the Rev. J.G. Driberg, Bishop's College: 10th October, 1847". A first report with some vocabulary of the Language of the Gonds. Printed pamphlet with no cover. On the first page Hodgson has written the title. Printed at Bishop's College Press, 1847.

"Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum by Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., late Resident in Nepal &c. &c. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Natural History Departments in the British Museum." Offprint with Hodgson's annotations first published in the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1849. Soft cover, 10 pages, dated 1849 with further date of 27 September 1860.

"Prospectus of Messrs. Schlagintweits' Collection of Ethnographical heads from India and High Asia." Catalogue produced by Joh. Ambr. Barth, Bookseller and Publisher, Leipzig. Germany, of Plaster casts made from living people of heads and hands. Published in 1859 by C. and F. Unger, Berlin, 13 pages. 2 copies.

Printed sketches of Idre Phānche, a Sutan Monk, aged 40. Full-face and profile sketches. Reverse has note "Sifan monk to be returned to Hodgson". Printed material, 1 piece, undated.

This series contains published material written, by Brian Houghton Hodgson and others pertaining to his interest in Languages and Ethnography, which were present within his Papers. Many contain extensive annotations in Hodgson's hand.