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Letter from Devika Banerjee to the Librarian stating her wish to become a member of the Society, dated 15 November 1995.

Letter from William Clarance to the Librarian applying for membership, dated 20 July 1998.

Letter from the Australian Honours Secretariat, seeking the Society’s view on Professor Anthony Crothers Milner’s achievements for their consideration of an award within the Order of Australia and enclosing a guideline for referees, dated 23 September 2005.

Letter to Francois de Blois from G. H. R. Tilloston, RAS Director, granting his request for reimbursement of expense in connection with the fourth European conference of Iranian studies in Paris, and setting out the general principle of such applications for reimbursement for future, dated 6 October 1999. With a further letter from de Blois formally submitting the payment request, dated 8 October 1999.

Since its early years, the Society has maintained the tradition of proposing foreigners of eminent attainments, rank or situation, or persons who have rendered distinguished service towards the attainment of the objects of the Society, to be an Honorary Member. The total number of Honorary Members was for many years limited to thirty according to the Rules of the Society. When a vacancy opened up, primarily due to death of members, the Council would propose and invite selected individuals to fill up the vacancy.

This sub-series contains correspondence regarding invitation of Honorary Membership as well as further correspondence between the Society and its Honorary Members. Most of the 19th-century correspondence did not survive in the archives.

Letter from Ikbal Al Doulah acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member, dated to Islamic year AH 1255. Includes a translation of the letter by John Briggs.

Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Members in the 1930s. These are mostly outgoing letters from the Society informing individuals the nomination and asking for their acceptance, and replies from the members, and in some cases contain other printed material such as obituaries and news clippings as attachments. Additional correspondence with or relating to the members have been filed together.

Elected 1932
Professor Heinrich Luders
Professor Th. Stcherbatsky (Fyodor Shcherbatskoy)
Sir Jaganji Jamshedji Modi
Professor August Fischer

Elected 1933
Dr Ernest Herzfeldt, with additional correspondence regarding a planned lecture at RAS on his discovery in Persepolis, Iran

Elected 1934
Professor Moritz Winternitz

Elected 1935
Mirza Muhammad Khan Qazvini
Professor Wilhelm Geiger
Professor Georges Coedes, with a notice of death in the 1970s

Elected 1936
Professor H. E. Winlock
Professor A. J. Wensinck

Elected 1937
Professor Jules Bloch
Professor Carl Brockelmann
Professor J. Ph. Vogel, with further correspondence with the Netherlands Ministry for the Colonies regarding his death in 1943
Mahamahopadhyaya Ganganath Jha
Professor Rene Dussaud

Elected 1938
Professor Arthur Christensen
Professor Jean Przyluski

Elected 1939
Professor E. Levi-Provencal

Correspondence between the Society and the following Honorary Fellows dating from 1960s to 1970s. These are mostly internal and outgoing letters concerning issue of diploma and membership invitation, with replies from the members. For some, there is accompanying material such as biographies, copies of press release, news clippings, postcards and obituaries.

Elected 1945
Professor H. S. Nyberg

Elected 1946
Professor Georg Morgemdieme
Professor Gaston Wiet

Elected 1958
Professor S. C. A. Schaeffer
Professor K. A. Nilakanta Sastri
Professor E. Waldschmidt

Elected 1961
Professor J. Pedersen

Elected 1962
Professor Igor Michailovic Diakonoff, with additional letters regarding the Society's greetings of his 60th and 75th birthdays

Elected 1963
Professor Etienne Lamotte, with a notice of death

Elected 1964
Professor George Tsereteli

Elected 1967
Professor Vasily Invanovich Abaev
Professor Louis Legeti

Elected 1969
Dr Enrico Cerulli
Professor Annemarie von Gabain
Professor M. B. Emeneau

Elected 1970
Professor Paul Wittek
Professor William F. Albright
Professor H. J. Polotsky

Elected 1971
Dr Gunnar Jarring

Elected 1974
Dr C. Sivaramamurti
Professor Mujtaba Minovi
Professor Nikolay Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1975
Professor Andrey Nikolayevich Kononov
Professor Giuseppe Tucci, with additional correspondence with the Buckingham Palace
Professor George C. Miles
Professor I. Stchoukine
Professor Murad Kamil
Professor Suniti Kumar Chatterji
Professor Gordon A. Calver (as Fellow honoris causa)
Dr John Hansman (as Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence:

• Three letters from Eric C. Naylor nominating Dr Alan E. Haw to be elected an Honorary Member, dated April 1965, October 1967 and December 1968, and replies from the Society. 8 pieces.
• Letter from V. P. Rehbar concerning application to be sent for Honorary Fellowship and the Society’s publication scheme, dated June 1966. 1 piece. Note that V. P. Rehbar’s name did not appear in the list of members
• Letter from Shri Vidhata applying to be an Honorary Fellow of the society, with details of qualifications, dated January 1967. 3 pieces
• Letter from P. S. Belvalkar informing the Society of the death of his father, Dr S. K. Belvalkar (elected 1946), dated March 1967. 2 pieces
• Letter from Professor J. Gonda from the Netherlands informing the Society of the death of Professor R. Heine-Geldern (elected 1946) and Professor F. D. K Bosch (elected 1948), and reply from the Society, dated January 1969. 2 pieces
• Telegram from Jacques Ryckmans informing the Society of the death of Monsignor Gonzague Ryckmans (elected 1948), including a printed obituary, [September 1969]. 2 pieces
• Letters regarding the nomination of Professor Hsia Nai (Xia Nai), Deputy Head of the Delegation of Archaeological Finds of the People’s Republic of China, 1973-1974; Professor Hsia Nai’s reply declining the nomination, dated February 1975; and a subsequent letter, from Dr Michael Loewe, regarding the renewal of the invitation. Hsia Nai was re-nominated as an Honorary Fellow in the Council meeting on 13 June 1985, only a few days before his death. 8 pieces
• Letters from Professor Edward Ullendorff, proposing Professor Sabatino Moscati and Professor C. H. Gordon to be new Honorary Fellows, dated 13 October 1973 and 28 January 1974. 4 pieces

Correspondence between the Society and its Honorary Members dating from the mid-1970s to early 2000s. These are mostly letters concerning suggestions for candidates, proposals for Council and membership invitation, with replies from the members. These cover the below members:

Elected 1975
Professor Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov

Elected 1978
Professor Paul Balog
Professor Joshua Blau
Professor Claude Cahen
Professor Kazuo Enoki
Professor Inalcik Halil
Professor Tadeusz Lewicki
Professor Hajime Nakamura
Professor H. K. Sherwani
Professor D. E. Hettiaratchi

Elected 1984
Professor Sukumar Sen

Elected 1985
Mr Hirad C. Chaudhuri
Professor Juan Vernet Gines
Professor M. C. Subhadradis Diskul
Professor B. N. Mukherjee
Academician M. I. Useinov

Elected 1991
Dr Ivan Hrbek
Professor Erik Zurcher
Professor Tatsuro Yamamoto
Professor Walther Heissig
Professor Jonas C. Greenfield
Professor A. K. Narain
Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani
Dr Firoze M. Kotwal
Professor A. A. Duri
Professor David Ayalon
Professor Jane Aubin
Mrs Eveline Poree-Maspero (already passed away at the time of invitation)
Elizabeth Samson

Elected 1993
Professor Dieter Schlingloff
Dr Parmeshwari Lal Gupta
Professor Paul Thieme
The Reverend Professor Michele Piccirillo

Elected 1998
Mr Hugh Bett (Fellow honoris causa)
Dr Robert Jones (Fellow honoris causa)

Other correspondence in this file includes:

• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar informing the Society of the death of Professor Emile Benveniste (elected 1946), dated March 1977
• Letters from Mr J Nagar nominating M. M. Nagar, former Director of State Museum and Archaeology in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, as a Honorary Fellow, with details of his qualifications, and reply from the Society, dated April 1977
• Letter from Jean Naudou, Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Civilisation at University of Lille III, informing the Society of the death of Professor Philippe Stern (elected 1948), dated May 1979
• Letter from Denis Sinor, Distinguished Professor of Uralic-Altaic Studies at Indiana University, informing the Society of the death of Professor W. Norman Brown (elected 1952), Deny and S. Elisseef (elected 1955), dated January 1980
• Letter from S. K. Punjya at the University of Warwick recommending Juan Mascaro, a Sanskrit scholar, as an Honorary Fellow, with a memorandum from Professor J. C. Wright from SOAS giving his opinion on Juan Mascaro, 1985-1986
• Documents relating to the proposal for Honorary Fellows in 1994, including a letter from Dr G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville, proposing architect Isam Awwad (also a RAS member), with a relevant news clipping; and a CV of Professor Gregory Bongard-Levin. With a note saying ‘not yet considered’
• Letter from A. D. H. Bivar relaying a request from Professor A. H. Dani for possible consideration of Professor Mohammad Salim as an Honorary Member, with details of qualifications, dated January 2004

In the Annual General Meeting on 12 May 1932, the Council passed a resolution that the Ambassador or Minister of every Oriental Power accredited to the Court of St. James' should be invited to become a Foreign Extraordinary Member of the Society, under the terms of Rule 10 of the Charter, which stipulated that ‘Foreign potentates or distinguished officials of Oriental Powers may be admitted by the Council to be Foreign Extraordinary Members’.

This sub-series contains the invitation letters sent to these individuals and further correspondence relating to the election of Foreign Extraordinary Members.