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GB 891 RAS BHA-RAS BHA/4-RAS BHA/4/4 · Subseries · 19 January 2007 - 14 February 2007
Part of The Barwis-Holliday Award

The Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to Professor Richard John Lynn for his paper, 'Women in Huang Zunxian’s Rihen zashi shi'. The archival material is:

  • Copy of an email with text for advertisement for the Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award, dated 19 January 2007.
  • Electronic poster for the Fourth New Barwis-Holliday Award, archival electronic document created in November 2024.
  • Two letters from candidates submitting their papers, dated 20 January - 14 February 2006.
  • Reports on submitted papers, 4 archival electronic documents created November 2024.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
'The Four Noble Truths'
GB 891 DJG-DJG/13-DJG/13/7 · File · 1830 - 1860
Part of Papers of Daniel John Gogerly

The manuscript is an exposition of the Four Noble Buddhist Truths, given in the Saccavibhaṅga sutta. Written by an unknown author; date unknown. The item consists of a single A4 sheet only. White paper, black ink.

The Fountain
GB 891 ACG-ACG/15-ACG/15/1-ACG/15/1/2 · File · 1972
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Notes entitled The Fountain drafts from another experiment with automatic doodling, including drafts. Further poem drafts for Later she died, The finish, Touch, Fireflies.

Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991
GB 891 ACG-ACG/24-ACG/24/3-ACG/24/3/3 · File · 1962
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

The Foundations of a Functional Syntax by André Martinet, University of Paris, possibly chapter 2 of his A Functional View of Language,The Waynflete Lectures delivered in the College of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, 1961 and published by Oxford University Press, 1962.

Martinet André 1908-1999
GB 891 RAS BHA-RAS BHA/4-RAS BHA/4/1 · Subseries · January 2001 - 23 January 2003
Part of The Barwis-Holliday Award

The First New Barwis-Holliday Award was given to David Branner for his paper, 'On early Chinese morphology and its intellectual history'. The archival material is:

  • 'Barwis-Holliday Award for far Eastern Studies' - an advert for the award with guideline for submission.
  • Reports from Sarah Ansari and Tim H. Barrett on the submissions, undated and dated 9 September 2002.
  • Copies of emails within the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the prize-winner, dated 18 October - 27 November 2002.
  • Letter from Royal Asiatic Society to Lloyds TSB Bank to send a payment to the account of David Branner, dated 23 January 2003.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
GB 891 RAS BMM-RAS BMM/1-RAS BMM/1/1-RAS BMM/1/1/1 · File · 14th Jun 1921
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Richard Burton Memorial Medal

"The First Meeting of the Committee of the Richard Burton Memorial Lecture Fund". Agenda for the meeting to be held in 14 June, 1921, at the Royal Asiatic Society Rooms, and a List of the Committee Members.

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England
GB 891 RB-RB/2-RB/2/8 · File · 1890
Part of Papers of Richard Francis Burton

"The First Four Chapters of Goa, and the Blue Mountains: or, Six Months of Sick Leave by Richard F. Burton, Lieut. Bombay Army. Author of a grammar of the Mooltanee language; Critical Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtoo, or Afghan Dialect etc. etc. With the articles which recently appeared in the Madras Mail and Madras Times on the coming exposition at Goa, &c., with frontispiece". Extracts from the Madras Mail: Goa and the Goanese, parts 1 and 2 (publ. Oct. 6, 1890). Extracts from the Madras Times: No.1 - The Rise of the Jesuits (pub. Oct. 25, 1890); No.2 - Old Goa (pub. Nov. 4, 1890) and No.3 - Francis Xavier (pub. Nov. 15, 1890). London: 1851. (Madras: Higginbotham & Co.: 1890). "Booklet produced for an exposition [i.e. public display of the relics of the Saint for veneration] “proposed to be held in connection with the tomb of St Francis Xavier, in December next [1891]”.This event, the first such for many years, marked the beginning of regular decennial expositions.