The contract between the Royal Asiatic Society and Schmidt Periodicals GmbH for non-exclusive rights to reprint Series 1-3 of the Journal, dated 5 September 1984, and associated correspondence and Statements of Royalties covering the period from 1984 -2003. Correspondents include Valery Gibson, Gordon Claver and Dennis Duncanson for the Royal Asiatic Society and Gerhard Schmidt for Schmidt Periodicals.

The Royal Asiatic Society has produced a Journal from the early years of its formation and continues to do so. This material covers the records made in the production, administration and distribution of the Journal.

Two versions of the Society's emblem of a banyan tree with the Latin motto 'Quot rami tot arbres' to be used in the printing process. The emblem was used on the Journal cover between 1863 and 1941.

At various points in its history, the Royal Asiatic Society has entered into agreements for both reproduction of its Journal and sales of excess copies and offprints. This series contains the administrative documents available from those agreements.

These reports are produced by Cambridge University Press to give details of the Journal's performance. There is a Publicity Report for September 1991 and Publishing Reports for the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for April 2007, May 2008, 2010-2011, 18 June 2012, 16 April 2013, 17 March 2014 (electronic), 6 May 2015 (electronic), 27 April 2016 (electronic), April 2019 (electronic) 2017-2019 (electronic). There are also Circulation Summaries for 1997-2005.

Plate of 'Impression of seal no. 420 from Mohenjo-daro' for 'Unhinging Siva from the Indus Civilization' by Doris Srinivasan, printed in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, no.1, 1984, pp. 77-89.

Three plaster casts to accompany the article "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals" by S. H. Langdon, JRAS 1927. The three casts are of the first three seals that Langdon describes. The first is from the period of the Dungi and Isin dynasty (2409-2075). A worshipper stands with hands folded at the waist before a seated deified king, and behind him the mother goddess with both hands raised implores the aid of the divine king for her human protégé. This seal, and the second one, were owned by a Mr Casson of New College, Oxford.

The second seal is of a woman and is engraved with the design of the glyptic of the First Babylonian dynasty – that of the Amorite god Amurru and his wife Shala. The upper circle represents the sun.

The third seal is an Assyrian seal of the Late period and shows a worshipper before a deity who stands upon a mythological animal with human head, bird body and scorpion tail. This seal was owned by a Mr L.D. Grand of the Ministry of Defence in Baghdad.

Plaster cast coins mounted on a piece of card with the heading, "JRAS 1929, Plate VI, R. B. Whitehead. P.259." This plate accompanies the article by R.B. Whitehead, "Akbar II as Pretender: A Study in Anarchy". With the coins is a letter from Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd., dated 29th November 1933, in which they write that they have found a few plaster casts of coins and some photo negatives of Chinese and other inscriptions.

Two photographic negatives from G.L.M. Clauson's Paper on "A Hitherto Unknown Turkish Manuscript in "Uigher" Characters" published in the Society's Journal in January1928. With the negatives is the original envelope.

Miscellaneous Photographs, Plates and Illustrations used for Journal Articles. These include photographs of the tomb of I'timad Khan Khevayasara, Images of An Ancient Arabic Sphere, FIG 1-8 K42174 and Figs K47163 for unknown articles.