scholarly journals XXI. On the Valley of the Setlej River, in the Himalaya Mountains, from the Journal of Captain A. Gerard

1827 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 343-380
Author(s):  
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
East India Company ◽  
General View ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Short Narrative ◽  
The Himalaya ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society ◽  
Himalaya Mountains

Capt. A. Gerard, from whose letters on a survey of the middle valley of the Setlej, in the year 1818, a brief sketch of the geology of that part of the Himálaya was prepared, which has been inserted in the Geological Transactions (1st vol., New Series), has since continued to explore the same interesting portion of the great Indian chain of mountains. A short narrative of a visit to the same quarter, in 1820, was communicated to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is published in the 10th volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, (page 295.) In the subsequent, year (1821) Capt. A. Gerard, with his brother, Mr. J. G. Gerard, more fully explored the same valley, to complete a geographical survey of it. Their diary, and the geological specimens collected by them, have, at their request, been freely communicated to me by the East-India Company, with the liberal permission of retaining a duplicate set of the specimens. This I accordingly have had the satisfaction of presenting to the Geological Society. But, as the diary contains particulars unconnected with geology, yet not devoid of interest in a more general view, I now offer to the notice of the Royal Asiatic Society a summary of it, interspersed with remarks, and including extracts of the more important passages.

scholarly journals Index to notes and records, Volume, 4, 1946

1946 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-229
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Executive Committee ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
American Philosophical Society ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

Academies Correspondence with . . 69 Lincei, National Academy . 212 Netherlands, Academy . 214 Activities of the Society . 1, 133 Address to Executive Committee of I.C .S .U . . . .101 Administrative Staff of Royal Society .... 193 Andrade, E. N. da C . . 41, 43 A nniversaries Academy of Sciences of the U .S.S.R. (220th) . . 65 American Philosophical Society (200th) . . . 6 8 Chemical Society (100th) . 207 Copernicus, Nicholas (400th) . 75 Lavoisier, Antoine (200th) . 75 Newton, Isaac (300th) . 146, 152 Priestley’s discovery of photon synthesis (175th) . .211 Zurich Naturforschende GeselL schaft (200th) . . 206 Anniversary Dinner, 1945 . 19 Archaeological research in East Africa . . . 14 Attlee, Mr, Speech by . 1 9 Banks, Sir Joseph, a letter of . 49 Banks, Sir Joseph, letters presented to Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal . . . . 5 1 de Beer, G. R. . . 216

scholarly journals Art. XXIX.—A Letter to Richard Clarke, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Honorary Secretary to the Royal Asiatic Society, on a MS. of the Jámi al Tawáríkh of Rashíd al Dín, preserved in the Library of the Honourable East India Company

1843 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
William H. Morley
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Good Fortune ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Considerable Portion ◽  
The Press ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

In the year 1838 I had the good fortune to discover, amongst the MSS. preserved in the library of the Royal Asiatic Society, a volume containing portions of the Jámi al Tawárikh, previously supposed to have been lost; and in the following year I had the honour of laying before the Society an account of my discovery, which was subsequently printed in their Journal. After I had written this account, and whilst it was passing through the press, Professor Forbes found another and more considerable portion of the same work in the collection of MSS, of the late Colonel Baillie, which was, singularly enough, written by the same hand, and evidently had formed part of the identical volume that I had previously met with. Professor Forbes gave a description of the MS. of Colonel Baillie in the same volume of the Journal. These fragments were in the Arabic language, and were translations from the original Persian work.

Presentation to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal of letters from Sir Joseph Banks

1946 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Royal Botanic Garden ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

On 10 May 1944 the Council of the Royal Society decided to purchase a collection of letters of Sir Joseph Banks relating to the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta with a view to presenting them to the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. The letters were dispatched to Mr R. G. Casey, Governor of Bengal, who made the presentation to the Royal Asiatic Society and sent the following letters describing the proceedings. The gratitude of the Society is due to Mr Casey for making the presentation and sending this communication.

scholarly journals Koleksi Raffles Dari Jawa: Bukti Dari Eropa Tentang Sebuah Peradaban

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Alexandra Green
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instruments ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
British Library ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
British East India Company ◽  
British Colony ◽  
Key Questions ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

Stamford Raffles was promoted to Lieutenant Governor of Java when the island was taken from the Dutch by the British East India Company in 1811 as part of the Napoleonic warsin Europe. During Raffles’ years on Java, he collected substantial cultural materials,among  others  are;  theatrical  objects,  musical  instruments,  coins  and  amulets,  metal sculpture, and drawings of Hindu- Buddhist buildings and sculpture. European interest inantiquities explains the ancient Hindu- Buddhist material in Raffles’s collection, but thetheatrical objects were less understood easily. This essay explored Raffles’ s collecting practices, addressing the key questions of what he collected and why, as well as what were the shape of the collection can tell us about him, his ideas and beliefs, his contemporaries, and Java, including interactions between colonizers and locals. I compared the types of objects in the collections with Raffles’ writings, as well as the writings of his contemporaries on Java and Sumatra in the British Library and the Royal Asiatic Society. Raffles was one of the first people to apply the enlightenment notion of systematic collecting to cultural material, but his collections were not systematized by Javanese standards, indicating his incomplete understanding of the local culture. Instead, the objects demonstrated that Raffles chose items considered indicative of civilization according to European ideas, assembling objects to support his argument in favor of Java as a remaining of a British colony, as well as to promote his own image as a scholar- official. 

Notices of publications relating to the history of the Society

1950 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-271
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society ◽  
Royal Society Of London ◽  
Sir William Jones

IN the Notes and Records of this Society for April 1946 (Vol. 4,No. 1, pp. 58-62), a brief account is given of* The Bicentenary of the Birth of Sir William Jones, F.R.S., Founder of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.' The Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal has now published a Commemorative Volume of this event.1 This well-printed volume contains in Section I the text of the addresses from many parts of the world that were presented to the Society on the anniversary date (15 January 1946), some of them being in Sanskrit, one in Urdu, that from Oxford University in Latin, and several in French. The writer of this note was present in Calcutta on this occasion, having had the honour of being sent out specially by the Royal Society of London to act as their representative.

scholarly journals II. Some particulars of the transit of Venus across the Sun, December 9, 1874, observed on the Himalaya Mountains, Mussoorie, at May-Villa Station, Lat. 30° 28′ N., long. 78° 3′. E., height above sea 6765 feet

1875 ◽  
Vol 23 (156-163) ◽  
pp. 254-259
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Of Year ◽  
The Himalaya ◽  
Clear Atmosphere ◽  
Himalaya Mountains

Naturally sharing in the great interest excited by the transit of Venus, which occurred this forenoon, I proposed that I should observe the event with the equatoreal of the Royal Society, which Capt. J. Herschel, R. E., in his absence from India, had temporarily placed at my disposal; and the project meeting with liberal support from Col. J. T. Walker, R. E., Superintendent, Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, I was enabled, through his kindness, to provide myself with four chronometers, a good altazimuth, a barometer, thermometers, and other articles of equipment necessary for the undertaking. My especial object in view was to observe the transit from a considerable height ; and this condition was easily secured through the circumstance that I was located only 14 miles from Mussoorie, on the Himalaya Mountains. No doubt a station on these mountains would be very liable to an envelope of mist and cloud at the time of year in question; but, on the other hand, were really good weather to prevail, I should enjoy the advantages of an exquisitely clear atmosphere, such as I have never experienced save on the Himalayas.

IV.—Notes on the Cephalopoda Belonging to the Strachey Collection from the Himalaya. Part I: Jurassic

1904 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
G. C. Crick
Keyword(s):  
Physical Geography ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Geological Society ◽  
The Himalaya ◽  
Himalaya Mountains

In 1851 Captain (now Sir) Richard Strachey communicated to the Geological Society of London a paper ”On the Geology of Part of the Himalaya Mountains and Tibet,” based upon the observations which he had made during the years 1848 and 1849. The Palæozoic and Secondary fossils therein mentioned were described in 1865 by J. W. Salter and H. F. Blanford respectively in a work of which the title-page reads as follows: “Palæontology of Niti in the Northern Himalaya: being descriptions and figures of the Palæozoic and Secondary Fossils collected by Colonel Richard Strachey, R.E. Descriptions by J. W. Salter, F.G.S., A.L.S., and H. F. Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. Reprinted with slight corrections for private circulation from Colonel Strachey's forthcoming work on the Physical Geography of the Northern Himalaya. Calcutta: O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press. March, 1865.”

scholarly journals Art. XXXI.—Travels beyond the Himalaya

1843 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 283-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mir Izzet Ullah ◽  
H. H. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Himalaya ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

[The Royal Asiatic Society having- determined to reprint occasionally papers which may be considered of interest, or may contain useful information, and which, although in print, are not generally procurable in this country, have been pleased to select in the present instance a translation made by me many years ago, and published anonymously in one of the periodical publications of the Calcutta press. At the time of its publication, the subject was entirely new. It has lost something of the gloss of novelty by the more comprehensive journals which have since appeared; but it still contains information regarding parts of Turkestan and Central Asia, which is not derivable from any better source, as the countries have not been visited in modern times by European travellers. In what has also ceased to be novel, the observations of the traveller are not without interest, as they relate to a political state of the countries traversed, which had undergone a change for the worse even when Izzet Ullah's steps were; followed by Moorcroft and Trebeck, and which has become still further deteriorated by the anarchy that has so long distracted Afghanistan. The journal of Izzet Ullah is in most places little more than a mere itinerary, and it is so far more serviceable to geography than to history; but he occasionally extends his notes so as to furnish materials for the latter.

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