Report from The Daily Telegraph newspaper, "Prince of Wales and Oriental research" reporting on the Centenary Luncheon.
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Report from Daily Telegraph to announce that the Prince of Wales will attend the Centenary Celebrations of the Royal Asiatic Society to be held at the Royal Society's Rooms, Burlington House, on 17th July 1923.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and IrelandA Press release written by the Society concerning the Sesquicentenary Dinner, dated 24 October 1973, and a report of the Dinner in the Daily Telegraph for 26 October 1973.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, EnglandCorrespondence with Press and news cuttings concerning the Sesquicentenary Appeal. These are:
- "£75000 Appeal for Royal Asiatic Society" from the Daily Telegraph, 28 October 1972.
- Letter from Michael Wolfers, The Illustrated London News, to John Hansman to return photographs from the Queen's visit as they would not be featuring those but to inform they would feature the Jami al-Tawarikh manuscript in the coming months, dated 2 March 1973.
- Letter from Magnus Linklater, Sunday Times Magazine, to Robert Skelton to state that they would not be featuring an article on the Royal Asiatic Society, dated 23 August 1973.
Letter from Royal Asiatic Society President, B.W. Robinson, to all Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society to send the appeal brochure and ask for support.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823-"The Asiatic Society, 198th Annual General Meeting, February 1, 1982, Presidential Address, Dr. P. C. Gupta" - printed pamphlet containing the address.
Asiatic SocietyIt appears that in 1939 the Royal Asiatic Society were looking at different options for their premises. There are two items of correspondence:
- Letter from Col. D.M.F. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to Sir Edward Maclagan to inform that the freeholder's Solicitors have approved of the Society leasing Farm House. He encloses a financial statement and will seek Mr Perowne's advice (RAS Treasurer). Dated 14 July 1939.
- Letter from Edward Maclagan to Col. Hoysted to discuss the figures and to suggest that it doesn't go before the Committee before he has heard from Mr Perowne. Dated 15 July 1939.
"Seminar on Fundamentalism: Tolerance and India's Heritage, 28-29 November 2003, Plenary Address" - a copy of the address given by Professor Francis Robinson, President, Royal Asiatic Society, at the seminar held by the Asiatic Society in 2003, 6 pages.
Robinson, Francis Christopher Rowland, 1944 -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.
Srinivasan DorisThree 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.
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