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Lists of publications undertaken by the Oriental Translation Fund.

The series contains correspondence with Bernard Quaritch concerning purchases, and a stock book detailing stock supplies.

This series consists of a newspaper cutting concerning the conferment of the Medal, and a rubbing of the reverse side of the Medal. Please see Related Material for further details concerning the conferment of the Medal.

"The Prince and the Royal Asiatic Society: Presentation of the Triennial Gold Medal". Newspaper cutting from the Times concerning the presentation of the Gold Medal to Dr. Grierson by the Prince of Wales. Dated 17 March 1909.

Rubbing of the reverse side of the Gold Medal with inscription for George Grierson: "To G.A.Grierson C.I.E., PhD. 1909".

Stock book detailing publication stock from 1920 to 1935. Within the book are three items of correspondence:

• Stock List from Billing & Sons Ltd., dated 12 April 1929.
• Letter from Billing & Sons Ltd. to the Royal Asiatic Society to answer the Society's enquiry regarding insurance and to give details of stock available, dated 5 November 1929.
• Postcard from Otto Harrassowitz to the Royal Asiatic Society to request the purchase of a volume, dated 10th May 1930.

Letters from Bernard Quaritch, book seller, to purchase publications from the Oriental Translation Fund. The final letter, the only one from 1864, dated 17 December 1864, offers to purchase the remaining stock of the Fund.

Two versions of the Society's emblem of a banyan tree with the Latin motto 'Quot rami tot arbres' to be used in the printing process. The emblem was used on the Journal cover between 1863 and 1941.

Three plaster casts to accompany the article "Six Babylonian and Assyrian Seals" by S. H. Langdon, JRAS 1927. The three casts are of the first three seals that Langdon describes. The first is from the period of the Dungi and Isin dynasty (2409-2075). A worshipper stands with hands folded at the waist before a seated deified king, and behind him the mother goddess with both hands raised implores the aid of the divine king for her human protégé. This seal, and the second one, were owned by a Mr Casson of New College, Oxford.

The second seal is of a woman and is engraved with the design of the glyptic of the First Babylonian dynasty – that of the Amorite god Amurru and his wife Shala. The upper circle represents the sun.

The third seal is an Assyrian seal of the Late period and shows a worshipper before a deity who stands upon a mythological animal with human head, bird body and scorpion tail. This seal was owned by a Mr L.D. Grand of the Ministry of Defence in Baghdad.

Plaster cast coins mounted on a piece of card with the heading, "JRAS 1929, Plate VI, R. B. Whitehead. P.259." This plate accompanies the article by R.B. Whitehead, "Akbar II as Pretender: A Study in Anarchy". With the coins is a letter from Stephen Austin and Sons Ltd., dated 29th November 1933, in which they write that they have found a few plaster casts of coins and some photo negatives of Chinese and other inscriptions.