GB 891 RAS MEMB-RAS MEMB/3-RAS MEMB/3/2-RAS MEMB/3/2/3

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1 folder, handwritten and typed

• 1960-1975 (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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

The letters relating to elected members are arranged by the year of election of the member. Further letters relating to the members after the initial exchange have been kept together.