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*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Singapore%29+AND+title%3A%28%22Blue+Book%22%29&sort=titleSorter ''Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year…''] broken range from 1873 to 1919, including years not specifically mentioned 1907, 1908, 1910. Archive.org. Very informative publications.
:For 1873, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/n3/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Civil Establishments , commencing with an Index] page 177, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/186/mode/2up Singapore] page 187, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Penang] page 209, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/222/mode/2up Malacca] page 223.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=739oaoEThTcC&pg=PP7 1896], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zMxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 1912], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=VTIlAQAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 1915], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cp5DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1917], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=JkLM6an5C7QC&pg=PP7 1919], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=X6BDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1922], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=cHJDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1924], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HHNDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1925], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=23NDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP1 1926], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=15dDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1929],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=bZVDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 1930], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fp1DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1931], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MpZDAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP25 1932], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Al1EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1935], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=rltEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP9 1936], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MFxEAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1937],[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Q11EAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 1938] Google Books.
:National Archives of Singapore has many editions catalogued as ''Straits Settlements Blue Books''. In the [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/advanced-search Advanced Search] for the title use search term Blue Books. All editions 1870-1938 appear to be available to read online (but download does '''not''' appear possible) and additionally there is [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/record-details/38a7dde8-f14a-11e3-a330-0050568939ad ''Colony of Singapore Blue Book 1946'']. Unfortunately the book reader is not easy to use. To increase size of font use your mouse wheel , and then an adjustment bar appears. To navigate to a particular page, use the thumbnails. The catalogue includes editions from 1867, but editions prior to 1870 do not appear to have been digitised. There is a Search option within each text, and the Search link previously mentioned also seems able to be used to search the texts of the entire collection using keywords.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' are available on "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term", however all years available appear to be also available on other sites. Example [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=332 1932] Pdf. (Also 1888, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive.org, and 1922 available Google Books).
:Other editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4468 CO 277] 1867-1939, part of "Records of Local Bodies and Other Colonial Miscellanea" commencing with CO 277/1 for 1867. (Also CO 939/1 for 1946, for Singapore).
→Historical books online
:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25051/page/n287/mode/2up "Inscriptions in St. Paul's Church, Malacca"] by E M Merewether, page 1 (digital page 287) ''Journal of The Straits Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 34 1900. [https://archive.org/details/biostor-176225 Same article, missing Plan] both Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023122777 ''Historical tombstones of Malacca, mostly of Portuguese origin, with the inscriptions in detail and illustrated by numerous photographs''] by Robert Norman Bland 1905 Archive.org
*''Straits Settlements Blue Book for the year…'' . See [[Singapore#Historical books online|Singapore- Historical books online]] for a range 1870-1938 from various sources. Very informative official government publications.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalof606319111912roya/page/n11/mode/2up "Barretto de Resende's Account of Malacca"] by W George Maxwell page 1 ''Journal of The Straits Branch of The Royal Asiatic Society'' Volume 60, 1911. Archive.org.
*''Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779'' by Dr J G Koenig. ''Journal Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society'' No. 26, January 1894 and No.27, October 1894. Archive.org (in one digital volume). Translated from his manuscripts in German and Danish in nineteen volumes at the British Museum. Koenig came to India in 1768 where he acted as doctor to the Danish Missionaries at Tranquebar and afterwards was appointed Naturalist to the Nabob of Arcot.
*[https://archive.org/stream/b2809265x#page/288/mode/2up "Malacca"] page 289 ''Reports on mountain and marine sanitaria; medical and statistical observations on civil stations and military cantonments, jails - dispensaries - regiments - barracks, &c. within the Presidency of Madras, the Straits of Malacca, the Andaman Islands, and British Burmah from January 1858 to January 1862'' by Inspector General of Hospitals Duncan Macpherson. 1862 Archive.org. Part of the series ''Selections from the Records of the Madras Government''.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=QBxJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of Singapore, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Malacca: Their Peoples, Products, Commerce and Government''] by John Cameron. 1865 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/ourtropicalposse0000came/page/n9 Reprint edition 1965] with an Introduction by Wang Gungwu. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/straitsofmalacca00thom_0 ''Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or, Ten Years’ Travels, adventures and Residence Abroad''] by J Thomson 1875 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035424 British Library Digital Collection version] with rotatable images. [http://www.johnthomsonexhibition.org/biography/ Through the Lens of John Thomson : Biography]
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000008934 ''The China Sea Directory Volume I Supplement ... Directions for Malacca Strait'']. Compiled by Staff Commander John Cumins Richards, Hydrographic Office, Admiralty 1876. British Library Digital Collection.
