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This sketch show a dying tiger and is entitled "A Tiger killed by a Buffalo, 4 March 1786" It also has inscribed the Sanskrit and Persian names for a tiger.

This is a sketchbook of botanical drawings consisting of sheets of paper sewn together. One is signed AMJ (Anna Maria Jones), Others have inscriptions by William Jones. The specimens were drawn at Krishnagar, October 1789, September - October 1791, September - October, 1792; Harishnagar May - July, 1791, March - May 1792; and Calcutta, March 1793. Most of the sketches are in pencil with some watercolour additions. Among the labelled ones there are:

• Menyanthes, dated October 1791
• Hydrophyllum, dated 26 October 1791
• Capparis, dated 19 August 1791
• Crotalaria, dated 12 July 1791
• Cerbera Manghas, dated 26 July 1791
• Pistia, dated 30 September 1791
• Urena Sinuata, dated 21 September 1791
• Celtis Orientalis
• Coocoo Cheri, dated 1793

Also within the sketchbook are some herbarium specimens.

These are loose sheets of paper with pencil or ink sketches of plants and added notes concerning the specimens. Among the labelled ones there are:

• Male and female flowers of Cucurbitacea, dated 13 October 1792
• Convolvulus and Trichosanthos
• Bryonia Luciniosa, dated October 1792
• Ipomoea pes-tigridis, dated 2 October 1792
• Phaseolus Mungo

These include both botanical and other sketches including a butterfly and a building. The notes are in more than one hand, some accompanying the drawings, some describing specimens and one concerning mixing of paint. Among the labelled ones there are:

• Thalia Tapari
• Mimosa Pudica
• Celosia Nodiflora
• 'a variety of Convolvulus Batatas’

These are 3 large sketches presumably by Lady Jones. Only one has an accompanying description which dates it to 17th March [1790]. This is a pencil sketch of a climbing plant in the Company's Botanical Gardens near Calcutta (Kolkata). The second sketch is in pencil with a single flower in colour but with no annotation. The third sketch is also in pencil with leaves and flower in colour.

Each of these three drawings has been given a reference number used in the Head catalogue, including 025.037, 025.067 and one from the sub-collection of 025.054-025.068 (likely 025.066 as the remaining numbers have all been assigned).

This consists of a lined exercise book with cardboard cover, into which have been stuck the pages from "Catalogue of the Library of the Late Sir William Jones... With the Books Added Subsequently to his Death by his Widow, Lady Jones" They were sold by auction by Mr Evans at 93, Pall Mall on Thursday 19th May, 1831"

Alongside each page of the sale catalogue some one has recorded in the exercise book, the price attained for each book and a name, presumably of the purchaser. £528, 17shillings were raised in the sale.

Typed manuscript entitled, "Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya. Sections K. L. + M. The Chinese factor in the Policy of Intervention" concerning the time period 1872-1876. It is also labelled as "File 5" and "Duplicate". It appears to be an early draft or research material for part of Blythe's book The Impact of Chinese Secret Societies in Malaya published in 1969. The material seems to be in more depth than the corresponding material covered within the publication. With the file is a note which reads, "It is possible that Prof. Cowan at S.O.A.S., London, would like to have this File 5, as it deals with the subject of his book on Intervention".

"An English- Malayalam Vocabulary compiled by Melville Wace". 121 loose pages, typed, of an English to Malayalam vocabulary with extensive handwritten annotations. Also a front page with biographical details and bearing a Royal Asiatic Society stamp. The annotations and the biography have been added to the manuscript at a later date by an unidentified author who also seems to have undertaken repair of some of the pages.

Personal papers of William Pettigrew connected with the Manipuri language and other local dialects.

Collection of manuscripts on the language Manipuri by William Pettigrew, Yumjao Singh and Mrs Ethel A Pettigrew. A letter from Roland B Dixon (1875-1934) an American cultural anthropologist, the letter mentions work of William Pettigrew and a copy of Rules and Regulations of The Asiatic Society of Bengal.