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GB 891 RAS COLL4-RAS COLL4/4-RAS COLL4/4/5 · File · 2005
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Collections Disposal Records

Letters of Acknowledgement of receipt of five volumes of Myanma Sway-Son Kyan and 50 volumes of the Bulletin of the National Library of Peiping given to the Library at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Two items.

School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Library
Disposal of Assets
GB 891 RAS COLL2-RAS COLL2/2-RAS COLL2/2/1 · File · 4th Mar 1994
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Collections Policy Documents

"Disposal of Assets: A Memorandum from the Director". Notice from RAS Director, D.J. Duncanson to inform Fellows not present at the Special General Meeting of 9 December 1993 that there were no further disposals of material of historic interest under consideration or likely to be proposed in the foreseeable future. With this Memorandum is a copy of the "Appendix to Report of Council 1993" regarding the disposal of the Farquhar Albums of drawings of Malaysian wildlife in order to raise funds for the Society. Typed documents.

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, England
GB 891 SC39 · Fonds · [1800 - 1899]

A series of discourses on Muslim doctrine and ethics, said at its beginning to be the Kalām of Murtada (Murtaza) Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib which has been translated from a Persian rendering of the original Arabic into a dialect of "Western Hindustani" in a variety of the Khojki Sindh script. This information is obtained from a typed note which has been pasted into the volume and signed by Lionel David Barnett, dated March 1931.

Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Diplomas for Membership
GB 891 RAS MEMB-RAS MEMB/5-RAS MEMB/5/4 · Subseries · 1823-1985
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Membership

This sub-series contains diplomas sent to members as proof of their admission or election as Fellows of the Society. These include diplomas for several types of membership, including one presumably intended for Foreign Members in the 1820s, several copies dating from the period before the Second World War and after 1969, as well as more modern examples.

Since its establishment the Society has maintained the tradition of sending a diploma to a newly elected Honorary Member to commemorate their membership. Foreign and Corresponding Members, before these two types of membership went obsolete, were also sent diplomas. The practice of issuing its Honorary Members a diploma was suspended during and after the Second World War and was revived at the decision of the Council at the meeting on 14 April 1966. Records show that Fellows elected as early as in 1945 were also sent their diplomas retrospectively when this practice was revived.