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"Memoir on the Hodésum (improperly called Kolehan) - By Lieut. Tickell". Unbound offprint with handwritten annotations and a sketch of Tickell from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1840. Printed by Bishop's College Press, 16 pages, 1840.

"Grammatical construction of the Ho language - By Lieut. Tickell". Unbound offprint with Hodgson's annotations from Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1840. Printed by Bishop's College Press, 11 pages, 1840.

"Ethnology Tickell Driberg &c", a comparative vocabulary of two unrelated languages of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula, viz. Barmese (= Burmese) and Tai (= Shan), with English glosses and blank columns. Soft cover, Printed material with some annotations, undated.

Another copy of this item, more copiously annotated by Hodgson, is kept at the British Library (Mss. Eur Hodgson 25/9).
This fascicle was issued by American missionary and philologist Rev. Nathan Brown (1807-1886) and sent to every scholar willing to answer his call for contributions (« Proposal for Forming a Comparative Vocabulary of all the Indo-Chinese Languages », in Calcutta Christian Observer, Vol. 4, 1835, pp. 572-579).

"Missions of Mongolia" by Thomas M. le Grand from the Annals of the Propagation of the Faith Vol. VIII, July 1847. Offprint from the Annals of the Propagation of the Faith, Vol. VIII, July 1847, pp. 205-275, comprising several letters from missionaries in Mongolia and Western Tonquin, the first of which (Letter of Rev. Huc) has been copiously annotated by Hodgson. Soft cover. Ms. note on the first page: "For Mr Hodgson, with Archbishop Carew's respectful compliments". 72 pages.

"Report on the Nurbudda Mission from the Rev. J.G. Driberg, Bishop's College: 10th October, 1847". A first report with some vocabulary of the Language of the Gonds. Printed pamphlet with no cover. On the first page Hodgson has written the title. Printed at Bishop's College Press, 1847.

"Narrative of a Second Visit to the Gonds of the Nurbudda territory by the Rev. J.G. Driberg and Rev. H.J. Harrison with a Grammar and Vocabulary of their Language". Printed at Bishop's College Press, Calcutta, 1849. Soft bound pamphlet with annotations by Hodgson, 58 pages, dated 1849.

"The Languages of the Indian Archipelago by J.R. Logan, Esq.: A System of Classification and Orthography for Comparative Vocabularies". Soft cover offprint from the Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, 1848. The author has written on the cover "To B.H. Hodgson, Esq. with the author's respects." Printed material, 32 pages plus 1 table, 1848.

"Report on a Series of Skulls of various Tribes of Mankind inhabiting Nepal, collected, and presented to the British Museum by Bryan H. Hodgson, Esq., late Resident in Nepal &c. &c. By Professor Owen, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Natural History Departments in the British Museum." Offprint with Hodgson's annotations first published in the Proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1849. Soft cover, 10 pages, dated 1849 with further date of 27 September 1860.

"Prospectus of Messrs. Schlagintweits' Collection of Ethnographical heads from India and High Asia." Catalogue produced by Joh. Ambr. Barth, Bookseller and Publisher, Leipzig. Germany, of Plaster casts made from living people of heads and hands. Published in 1859 by C. and F. Unger, Berlin, 13 pages. 2 copies.

"Measuring of Human Races" by Robert Schlagintweit. Chart for undertaking the measuring of an individual. Printed material, undated, 2 copies.