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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Royal Geographical Society, 1830-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/135
Title:
File 758/1908 'Arabia: Travellers - Mr G W Bury'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the movements of the explorer and naturalist, George Wyman Bury. The majority of the correspondence is between Bury himself, the India Office, the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and the Political Residency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1915
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/122
Title:
PZ 7769/1934 'Supply of maps to the political resident in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes, supply notes, and an air consignment note, relating to the supply of maps to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. It includes correspondence between Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and John Gilbert Laithwait...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1934-9 May 1946
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2137, f 308

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2137, f 308
Title:
ARABIA. Route Traverse across the RUB' AL KHALI from DHUFAR TO DOHA by BERTRAM THOMAS 1930-31
Scope & Content:
Map published by the Royal Geographical Society. From the Geographical Journal, September 1931. The map depicts Bertram Thomas's 1930-31 route, and earlier routes, in red. The map indicates settlements, hydrology, and also provides some indication of relief. Also included is a table of referenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1931
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1, f 376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1, f 376
Title:
‘Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia’
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It shows the names and locations of key settlements and regions during the period of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These are superimposed in red ink over a map of the eastern Ottoman Empire. Portrays hydrology, relief by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 map sheet

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2, f 397
Title:
Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/2. It shows the names and locations of key settlements and regions during the period of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires. These are superimposed in red ink over a map of the eastern Ottoman Empire. Portrays hydrology, relief by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:
1 map sheet

6. IOR/R/15/6/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27
Title:
File XXIII/1 British Consulate Muscat, Travels in Oman, 1894-1900
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed journey from Muscat across southern Arabia to Hadhramaut in Yemen by the explorer, James Theodore Bent. The correspondence focuses on Bent's request for an Indian surveyor in the employ of the Government of India to accompany him on the tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1894-25 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

7. Mss Eur F112/552, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/552, f 7
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With manuscript annotations relating to the Hejaz railway
Scope & Content:
Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1915'. Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, place names and international boundaries. Manuscript annotations highlight four sites on the Hejaz rai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1917?
Extent:

1 map sheet

8. Mss Eur F112/570, f 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/570, f 5
Title:
'Izmir (Smyrna)'. With boundaries added in manuscript
Scope & Content:
Relates to the Treaty of Sèvres (1920). Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2555, Sheet North J-35, Izmir (Smyrna), Provisional Edition. Covers Izmir, western Turkey and surrounding land and sea areas to a radius of approximately 150 miles. Portrays hydrology, soundings, relief by spot heig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 map sheet

9. Mss Eur F112/570, f 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/570, f 31
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With international boundary annotations
Scope & Content:
Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1917' and the series designation 'G[eographical].S[ection].,G[eneral].S[taff]., No. 2901.' Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, ancie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920?
Extent:

1 map sheet

10. Mss Eur F112/570, f 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/570, f 32
Title:
'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With repatriation annotations
Scope & Content:
Bears the imprint 'Published by the Royal Geographical Society, 1910. Railways inserted to November, 1917' and the series designation 'G[eographical].S[ection].,G[eneral].S[taff]., No. 2901.' Portrays hydrology, relief by spot heights and hachures, roads, railways, telegraphs, settlements, ancie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920?
Extent:

1 map sheet