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News cutting from the Athenaeum containing a list of volumes which Brian Houghton Hodgson had sent to the Vatican having been given them by the Grand Lama of Tibet. They had been confiscated from former Catholic missionaries. Printed material, 1 side, dated 5 January 1884.

News cutting from The Academy: review of Hodgson's "Miscellaneous Essays relating to Indian Subjects. Printed material, 2 sides, dated 15 May 1880.

News cutting from [The Academy] containing reviews of three catalogues of Sanskrit and Chinese Buddhist manuscripts by Bunyiu Nanjio (Clarenden Press 1883), Cecil Bendall (Cambridge University Press 1883) and Rajendralal Mitra (Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta 1882). Includes reference to Buddhist texts preserved in Nepal and the translated versions of many of them in China. Printed material, 2 sides, dated 30 August 1884.

News cutting from The Academy containing a T.W. Rhys Davies' review of Buddhist Birth Stories by Professor Kern of Leiden. The review mentions Hodgson generous donations of manuscripts to the learned societies of Europe. Printed material, 1 side, dated 30 August 1884.

News cutting from The Academy concerning Dr. Rajendralal Mitra's work on the Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal which mentions the materials given by Hodgson. Printed material, 1 side dated 21 June 1883.

News cutting concerning the conferment of Honorary degrees at the University of Oxford, including that of Hodgson. Printed material, 1 side, undated [1889].

News clipping of an article entitled ‘Asiatic v. Asian’, in which the writer writes that the old and time-honoured wording ‘Asiatic’ in the name of RAS should be changed to ‘Asian’. The article includes a photograph of Richard Winstedt, then President of the Society.

"News and Notes" No. 19, a newsletter from the Anglo-Mongolian Society, dated October 1973.

"News and Notes" the newsletter from the Anglo-Mongolian Society for March 1988.

New Lights on the Cultural History of the Chin Han Dynasties, draft paper by Li Xueqin 李學勤 with handwritten dedication.