Minutes of General and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented. Includes an extract from a letter from Henry Creswicke Rawlinson concerning his discoveries in Baghdad, dated 14 October 1846 (facing page 62) and notification of the death of Sir Alexander Johnston on 6 March 1849 (recorded in Minutes for Meeting of 17 March 1849). There is an index at the rear of the Volume.
Handwritten Minutes in folio-sized leather bound book in reasonable condition.

Minutes of General, Special, and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented, of Members nominated and elected, and changes within the Council.
Handwritten minutes in folio size leatherbound book in reasonable condition.

Correspondence concerned with the first Congress of the Federation of Learned Societies of North Africa, held at Algiers University from 10-11 June 1935. These are:

• Letter from Société Historique Algérienne to the President of the Royal Asiatic Society to inform of the first Congress of the Federation of Learned Societies of North Africa and to invite the Royal Asiatic Society to send a representative. The letter informs of the subjects to be discussed. Typed in French, dated 6 February 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to The Secretary, Société Historique Algérienne, to apologise for the delay in replying to their letter but he was still waiting to hear of a suitable representative. Typed, dated 13 March 1935.
• Letter from Professor Henri Pérès to the Royal Asiatic Society to write that is would be an honour to represent the Royal Asiatic Society at the Congress. Handwritten in French, date 15 April 1935.
• Letter from D.S. Margoliouth, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to enclose the letter from Professor Pérès accepting the invitation to represent the Society at the Congress. Handwritten, dated 22 April 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to Professor Pérès to send the official form from the Society for the Congress. Typed, dated 7 May 1935.
• Letter from Col. Hoysted, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to the Secretary General, Société Historique Algérienne, concerning the Royal Asiatic Society's representation at the Congress, and to inform that Professor Henri Pérès would represent the Society. Typed, dated 10 May 1935.

Lists of Royal Asiatic Society "Delegate Representatives" attending conferences from November 1930 to September 1939. The first sheet, A, covering the time period 1930-1933, lists the Conferences but not the delegates. Sheets B & C, covering 1933-1939, give the delegates appointed.

Printed cards listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1965 (March -June), 1965-1966, 1966-1967, 1967-1968, 1968-1969, and 1969-1970. The last of these for 1969-70 also details the Council for that year and details about the Library.

There are also handwritten and typed draft lists for lectures for 1961-1963.

Printed admittance tickets for lectures held at the Society. Some of these have been annotated with the numbers of people attending the lecture:

1963

• 14 November: Sir Richard Winstedt, 'Thirty-two Years in Malaya'. 12 December: Margaret Medley, 'Ceramic Design and Industry in the Ming Period'.

1964

• 12 March: H.L. Shorto, 'The Thirty-seven Nats'.
• 11 June: Dr F.R. Allchin, 'The Indo-Greeks and their Successors in Gandhara (Further Excavations at Charsada, 1963)'. This card has had the date crossed out, 8 October inserted, and that crossed out too.
• 8 October: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'Literature and Society in Thailand'.
• 12 November: Dr D.L. Snellgrove, 'The Decline of Tibetan Civilization'. 10 December: J. Burton-Page, 'The Building Art of Bijapur'.

1965

• 14 January: H.E. Richardson, 'Early Tibetan Civilization'.
• 11 February: Dr. Cheng Te-Kun, 'Archaeology in the People's Republic of China'.
• 11 March: Dr Carmen Blacker, 'Mountain Cults in Japanese Buddhism'.
• 8 April: Professor E.G. Pulleybank, 'Chinese and Indo-Europeans'.
• 10 June: Dr J. Elfenbein, 'In Baluchistan'.
  *14 October: B.W. Robinson, 'Some Persian Manuscripts in the Chester Beatty Library'.
• 11 November: Dr F.R. Allchin, 'The Place of Tulsī Dās in North Indian Devotional Tradition'.
• 9 December: Professor Owen Lattimore, 'Some Recent Publications of Mongol Historians'.

1966

• 13 January: Professor Gordon H. Luce, 'The career of Htilaing Min (Kyanzittha), the Uniter of Burma fl. 1084-1113 A.D.' This lecture took place after the presentation of the Society's Triennial Gold Medal to Professor Luce.
• 10 February: Ralph Russell, 'Ghālib (1797-1869), Self-Portrait of a Delhi Nobel and Poet'.
• 10 March: Miss K.M. Kenyon, 'Excavations in Jerusalem'.
• 14 April: Dr I.M.P. Raeside, 'The Mahānubhāva Sect'.
• 19 June: Dr. C.R. Bawden, 'The Anti-Manchu Rebellion of 1756-7'.
• 12 October: Dr. A.D.H. Bivar, 'Mesopotamian Elements in Roman Mithraism'.
• 17 November: Professor Yigael Yadin, 'Masada of Herod and the Zealots'.
• 8 December: Dr J. de Casparos, 'The Unity of the Realm'.

1967

• 12 January: Professor D.C. Twitchett, 'Evidence from Tun-Huang on the T'ang Governing Class'. The lecture was preceded by the presentation of the Burton Memorial Medal to Wilfred Thesiger.
• 9 February: Mrs Mildred Archer, 'Birds and Flowers in Indian Painting'.
• 9 March: Dr G. Fehérvári, 'Ayyūbbid Metalwork in Syria'.
• 13 April: Dr C.E. Bosworth, 'The Coming of Islam to Afghanistan'.
• 12 October: Professor D.M. Lang, 'Old and New in Georgia and Armenia'.
• 9 November: Dr Romila Thapar, 'The Tradition of Historical Writing in Early India'.
• 14 December: Dr C.A. Macartney, ' The Maygars Eastern Auxiliaries'.

1968

• 11 January: Professor O.R. Gurney, 'The Hittite Shrine of Yazilikaya'.
• 8 February: Dr T.M. Johnston, 'The Middle East Command expedition to Socotra, 1967'.
• 14 March: E.H.S. Simmonds, 'The Nature and Function of Court Entertainment in Old Siam'.
• 4 April: Professor W. Watson, 'The King of Tien (Yunnan, 1st Century BC)'.
• 13 June: The Hon. Sir Steven Runciman, 'The Fate of the Byzantine Churches in Ottoman Istanbul'.
• 10 October: Dr C.J. Dunn, 'Aspects of the Japanese Puppet Drama'.
• 14 November: C.H.B. Reynolds, 'The Maldive Islands'.
• 12 December: G.R. Tibbetts, 'The Origins of Arab Monsoon Navigation'.

1969

• 9 January: Professor E. Ullendorf, 'A Jewish Tribe in Ethiopia?'.
• 13 February: Professor J. Segal, 'Christianity in Mesopotamia during the First Two Centuries of the Common Era'.
• 13 March: Miss B.E. Ward, 'The Boat People of Hong Kong'.
• 10 April: Susan Skilliter, 'English Pirates in Turkey in 1581'.
• 12 June: Peter Parr, 'An Archaeological Reconnaissance in North-West Arabia'.
• 19 June: John Burton-Page, 'Iranian, Central Asian and Indigenous Currents in the Arts of the Mughal Courts: A Cultural Synthesis'. This event took place in Manchester.
• 9 October: Brigadier S.H. Longrigg, 'Arabia: The Last Fifty Years'.
• 13 November: Professor R.C. Zaehner, 'Yudhishthira: A Crisis of Conscience'. This was a lecture to mark Gandhi Centenary Commemoration.
• 11 December: Dr. M.A.N. Loewe, 'Witchcraft and Han Dynastic History 91-74 B.C.'.

Meeting Cards, Admittance Tickets and Correspondence connected to Lectures and General Meetings held between 1980 and 1989.

Printed cards with a list of the Council, information about the Library; and listing the dates of Meetings at the Royal Asiatic Society with the names of the speakers and titles of their lectures. These are for 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987 0ctober to December, 1988, February to June, 1988-89, 1989-90.

Lecture cards, Publicity posters, photographs and administrative documents for lectures held between 2000 and 2010. This included material for the main lecture series, as well as the Student Series which ran concurrently from 2006 forward.

Photographs from: 12 November 2008: Book launch for 'The Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu: Historic City of Islamic Africa' by Alida Jay Boye and John O. Hunwick, 6 images. 17 March 2010: Student Lecture Series, Kiku Day, a concert of the Shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute), 8 images.