This file contains correspondence relating to the award of the Sir William Jones Memorial Medal awarded to Joseph Needham by the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1962. This file contains a letter from Amitabha Ghosh (the Asiatic Society) to John Moffett (Needham Research Institute Librarian) dated 9 May 1996 enclosing photocopies of Joseph Needham’s letter of thanks dated 9 Dec. 1962, his formal words of thanks dated 4 Feb. 1963 and the Annual Report for 1962 which prints his words of thanks.