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This catalogue contains documents created in the administration of the Collections of the Society which have not been covered by the other Collections catalogues, including articles written about the history of the Library and its collections, reports and strategy documents, administrative correspondence, journal and periodical exchanges and job descriptions.

Notebook containing catalogue entries of the Assyrian letters inscribed on clay tablets that were found at the excavations led by Max Mallowan, archaeologist and academic, at Nimrud, Iraq in 1952. Each entry records the measurements of the clay tablet, number of lines on it and the location at which it is found, running from the reference numbers ND 2350 to ND 2499, and from ND2601 to ND 2803. The writing is in several different hands so was probably compiled by the members on the excavation team led by Mallowan.

Advertising card of Kung Cheong, dealer in jewels, ancient Chinese curios, chinaware, etc. The shop was established in 1871 and the card lists two shop locations, one at No 62, Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong and the other at Tai Sun Street Central, Canton (now known as Guangzhou). Some pencil annotations on the reverse reading: 'Nic[k] Chang, Kwong Sung, Tuck [illegible] - Photo men under Powells' and the address of 'Wing Hing [China] shop' on Queen's Road.

A 16-line poem entitled 'Tis Sixty Years Since', beginning with the line 'In the vain and everlasting flux and efflux of existence,' signed 'L. C. H.' The handwriting has been identified to be of Lionel Charles Hopkins, who served as the Vice President and a Councillor of the Society. Text on the other side of the document, in a different hand, reads 'Mrs E. Clark at 49 De Laune Street, Kennington', who appears to be the recipient of the document, from 'G[eorge] Justin Lynskey, KC, New Court, Temple'.

Folded and printed colour map of Formosa (Taiwan) on a scale of 1:50000, with inset maps showing details of several ports across the island, including Keelung port, Tamsui port, those on Hengchun Peninsula, etc. Names of the places on the map are written in a mix of Japanese kanji and katakana characters. The map is 100cm high and 77 cm wide. Marked 'With best compliments, T Murby' on the front when folded.

13 sheets of ink rubbings of inscriptions of steles in Chinese dating to the Han dynasty, many of which are illegible. Among the identified ones are steles now held at the Temple of Confucius, Qufu, China, including:

• two sheets of rubbing of the memorial stele for Kong Jun (漢孔君碑), erected in AD 155
• one sheet of rubbing of the Shi Chen Stele (史晨碑), erected in AD 169
• one sheet of rubbing of the Ritual Vessels Stele (禮器碑), erected in AD 156

Leather-bound manuscript entitled ‘Extracts of a Journal of a Voyage to the East Indies and return to England, Annis Domini 1817 and, 1818 in a merchant ship of the H. E. I. C. [Honourable East India Company]’. The manuscript documents the encounters of the writer, Robert Millar, an assistant surgeon aboard the East India Company ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, in his journey through Madras, Calcutta and St Helena. In the preliminaries the writer writes that he has copied out this manuscript form his notebook for the perusal of his sister, Anne. The manuscript includes a printed map of Bengal, 'projected by C. A. 1810', an illustration of an adjutant described by the locals and an annotated diagram of the canoe vessel used by the natives.

With Sir Cyril Walter Gurner's bookplate on the inside pastedown. A typescript note on the flyleaf, dated January 1957 and signed by Gurner, shows that the manuscript was purchased by the late L. S. S. O'Malley Esq., Indian Civil Service, in Norwich, and came into Gurner's possession when O'Malley left for Calcutta.

The Royal Asiatic Society has operated as a membership organisation since its founding. This collection contains records relating to the Society's membership, including administrative and financial documents such as membership lists and subscriptions ledgers, papers relating to membership application and election, as well as other textual and visual material which came into the Society's holdings as a result of its interaction with members.

The relationship between the Society and its members is further documented in this collection through letters, notices and other communications such as newsletters.

Printed genealogical material and maps relating to two princely states of British India, Kharan and Makran, now part of the Balochistan/Baluchistan province of Pakistan, including:

• Offprint of Appendix I of Kharan Gazetteer, Volume VIIA of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series, 1907, being the printed genealogical tree of the Nausherwanis of Kharan and Makran. Note at the bottom states that the tree is in disagreement with that given in Makran Gazetteer published in the same Gazetteer series, and that this tree was prepared from information supplied by the Chief of Kharan so is probably more correct
• Printed genealogical tree of the Kakar Tribe which is found in the Kharan region, tracing the lineage of the tribe from Qais Abdul Rashid. Prepared by Mir Shams Shah, K. B., Settlement Extra Assistant Commissioner in Baluchistan, and produced by Major A. H. McMahon, Revenue Commissioner in Baluchistan, December 1901. Probably an appendix of an edition of the Baluchistan District Gazetteer Series
• Coloured printed map of Makran on a 1 inch to 16 miles scale, showing its boundaries, major roads, tracks and rivers. No. 28[8]8, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in February 1907. 47cm (h) x 48cm (w)
• Coloured printed map of Kharan on a 1 inch to 10 miles scale, showing its boundaries, routes, rivers and Kharan Chief’s military outposts. No. 3235, printed by Thomason College, Roorkee in August 1907. 46cm (h) x 46cm (w)

A map of the southern coast of China, in the form of a scroll, covering the area of present-day Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi. It labels various major towns and smaller islands along the coast, including Guangzhou, Chaozhou, present-day Hong Kong and Macao and more, with a scale bar and legend (although probably not drawn to scale). Locations of settlements and military structures such as towers and forts are also indicated, with text describing the depth of water and distance from the coast at various points. The map measures 40cm high and 485cm wide. It has been removed from its original container, a wooden cylinder, which is now stored alongside each other.

An accompanying typed note refers the item as 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien' (籌海圖編), No. 429 on page 75 of Samuel Kidd's catalogue and a donation by Sir George Staunton. This catalogue reference appears to be incorrect, as it does not correspond to Kidd's Catalogue of the Chinese Library of the Royal Asiatic Society (1838), but Henry Holt's A Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscript in the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society (1890). However, Holt's entry describes a set of 8 volumes of 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien' published in 1624, instead of a single map, and this scroll was unlikely part of the volumes.

It is possible that this map was adapted from those originally published in 'Ch'ou hai t'u pien', with extra information added to it, and was specially made for Staunton. Another source from which this map might have taken reference is 'Ya nhai quan tu' (沿海全圖), part of 'Hai guo wen jian lu' (海國聞見錄), compiled by Chen Lunjiong in 1730.