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- ↑ Presidents & Secretaries. Archived 1 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine The Asiatic Society. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
- ↑ The Indian Museum 1814-1914. Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 1914.
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