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Bound Manuscript on Delhi
GB 891 HME-HME/2-HME/2/1 · File · [1827-1853]
Part of Papers of Sir Henry Miers Elliot

Bound volume of the topography and statistics of the Delhi territory, largely handwritten with various printed pages inserted, and one printed map. Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.

GB 891 BI-BI/1-BI/1/3 · File · [1977-2016]
Part of Papers of Barbara Ingham

Bound copy of Devi of the Tigers, from scans of the final draft created by the Royal Asiatic Society and bound at the request of her son, John Ingham, Dorchester-on-Thames, in 2016.

Botanical Specimen
GB 891 BHH-BHH/12 · Series · [1820 - 1858]
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

Botanical Specimen - "Darharde bark of root of large tree growing at Kansing used as a dye". Specimen of the bark with identifying note. Undated.

Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 Orientalist
Botanical Sketches and Notes
GB 891 WJ-WJ/3-WJ/3/3 · File · 1792
Part of Papers of Sir William Jones and Lady Anna Maria (Shipley) Jones

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