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*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers.
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===Online and other databases===
====Findmypast/Kabristan Archives====
Findmypast contains the database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-in-ceylon-parish-records?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 "British In Ceylon Parish Records"] located in Life Events (BMDs)/Parish Registers, consisting of records "collected and transcribed by the Kabristan Archives". Mainly these appear to be index records only. Currently (20202023/0504/1615) within these records there are five sub databases: Colombo Burials;
Colombo General Cemetery Anglican Burial Register 1909-1919;
Colombo Kanatte Cemetery War Dead; Miscellaneous Births Marriages Burials; St Pauls Baptisms 1877-1901 [probably (from the Kabristan website this is St Paul's Kandy]). The details provided varies - The last category, St Paul's is quite detailed but some of the other categories provide dates only.
See the Kabristan Archives, [[Ceylon#External links|External links]], below. Search on the Kabristan Archives website for free, for baptismal, marriage and burial records, and pay to obtain full details. If you want more details for a record you have found on Findmypast, it is '''possible''' that you may be able to obtain more details, by either purchasing a Kabristan Archives publication, or with a payment for a specific record.
'''Other'''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon Ceylon] Wikipedia
*[http://www.kabristan.org.uk/sri-lankan-genealogy Kabristan Archives-Ireland- Ceylon- India Genealogy] Includes a Search, with a partial transcription of records. In addition to baptismal, marriage and burial records, there is a database ''Ceylon Roll Of Honour World War 1 1914-18'' (in two parts), with (two) Index of names [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/183-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-1-a-k A-K], [https://www.kabristan.org.uk/kabristan-indexes/sri-lanka-indexes/184-ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18/ceylon-roll-of-honour-world-war-1-1914-18-part-2-l-z L-Z], sourced from ''The Ceylon roll of honour and record of service in the Great War 1914-1918'', published c 1919. See Records above for more comments.
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/ The Virtual Library of Sri Lanka] lankalibrary.com, has a section "History", which in turn has a section "Colonial History, The British in Lanka (1796-1948)"
*[http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/asian/tracingasianroots/ceylon.htm Administrative Records of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] - movinghere.org
*[http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea] Includes information about tea plantations. Also includes the category Publications & Articles which consists of many online publications, refer below, including ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range).
*[https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=14604 Early tea cultivation in India and Sri Lanka] Cambridge University Library’s Special Collections. Includes images.
*[http://www.sundaytimes.lk/030223/plus/10.html "Rubber, rain and rat snakes"] by Michael Speer c 2003 sundaytimes.lk The author was born in Ceylon in 1938 and after the war, from 1946, his father managed rubber plantations, as a PD (periadurai or "big master") until the family left in 1959.
*Photographs: [http://www.imagesofceylon.com/cover.htm Images of Ceylon]
***[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28253510/The-Ceylon-Planters-Rifle-Corps-Commanding-Officers The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps – Roll of Commanding Officers and Adjutants]. Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15701762 "Tea Leaves." Ceylon Planters Corps]. ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 6 September 1916 trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 16 September 2014
***Ceylon Planter's Rifle Corps Correspondence on OHMS Postcards by Kathryn Johnson [httphttps://docsweb.googlearchive.comorg/web/20160328014847/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.collectorsclubchicago.org%2Fpdf-doc%2Fceylon-planters-rifle-corps.pdf html version], [http://www.collectorsclubchicago.org/pdf-doc/ceylon-planters-rifle-corps.pdf pdf"Ceylon Planter's Rifle Corps Correspondence on OHMS Postcards"] .by Kathryn Johnson collectorsclubchicago.org, archived. Retrieved 16 September 2014
**[https://www.scribd.com/doc/28892357/Brief-History-of-the-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles Brief History of the Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Compiled by Major Anton Edema, SLLI scribd.com
***[https://www.scribd.com/document/47347072/Ceylon-Mounted-Infantry-Ceylon-Mounted-Rifles Ceylon Mounted Infantry -Ceylon Mounted Rifles] Xmas Number of the ''Times Of Ceylon'', 1906. "C.M.I. - C.M.R. 1892. 1906" (by the officer Commanding Ceylon Mounted Rifles) scribd.com
***Articles from the ''Journal of the Dutch Burger Union of Ceylon'': "The Boers At Diyatalawa" by E. H. Van Der Wall Volume XVIII January 1929 No 3. "The Boer Prisoner-Of-War In Ceylon (1900 – 1902)" by R. L. Brohier in Five Parts. Volume XXXVI July 1946 No 1 to Volume XXXVIII July 1947 No 1. The last Part includes a list of deaths. "Addendum.The Boer Prisoners Of War In Ceylon" by L.G. Poulier. List of Boer War Prisoners who died in Ceylon received from the Anglo Boer War Museum
*[http://www.lankalibrary.com/phpBB/viewforum.php?f=85&sid=3ba2b45b2204fd1fd9352f5813c23bd1 HMS Highflyer [Royal Air Force and Royal Navy In Ceylon c 1943<nowiki>]</nowiki>] lankalibrary.com.
*[https://www.rmindianoceanww2.co.uk/index.htm Royal Marines in the Indian Ocean]. A subset of the website ''Burma Campaign''. This web site presents histories of Royal Marines units that served on islands in the Indian Ocean, in Ceylon, India, Burma and South-East Asia during World War 2. Few Royal Marines came face-to-face with the Japanese in combat but they played a vital role in constructing and defending bases important to the success of the campaign in Burma.
*1941-1945 Eastern Travels, Parts 1-9 by Cecil John Callis, [[Royal Corps of Signals]]. in India and Ceylon. WW2People’s War. The author's posting to Ceylon is covered in [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a4427985.shtml Part 3], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a4428038.shtml Part 4], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4428083.shtml Part 5], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/73/a4428173.shtml Part 6].
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/499443.html A tale of two Mutinies: The Indian Ocean 1942] by Harry Fecitt from Harry’s Sideshows. Includes the mutiny by a detachment of No 1 Coast Regiment of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island, one of the Cocos-Keeling Islands.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70788/page/n171/mode/2up "Books on Ceylon"] [a Bibliography] by Biblio page 159, ''Volume VI, Ceylon Antiquary and Literary Register'' January 1921 Archive.org.
*[httphttps://220diglib.247natlib.247.85:8081 lk/home National Digital Library Sri Lanka] including [httphttps://220diglib.247natlib.247.85:8081/handlelk/123456789communities/898 86a43aa6-efe4-4e85-9190-a97b94cba751 ''Ceylon Government Gazettes''] from 1889 to 1912 (as at 20192023/0604), but only some publication may be available for any given year. The website contains a Search, then relevant editions may be downloaded as a pdf. Some In the past some other publications require required prior registration, and then a pdf must had to be requested, but it is unclear if this still applies, but the ''Gazettes'' appear to be available without prior registration.
*''Ceylon Calendar'', published 1814-1830 was followed by ''Ceylon Almanac and Compendium of Useful Information'', published 1833-1839 and 1844-1850. Continued as ''Ceylon Calendar and Compendium of Useful Information'' 1840-1843 and ''Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register'' 1851-1862.
:Available on Archive.org [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Almanac%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Almanac''] and [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Calendar%29+AND+title%3A%28Ceylon+%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Calendar''], (together) a broken range '''1818 to 1868''', and includes most editions following.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 '''1818'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d00991433a?urlappend=%3Bseq=259 page 217, MBD for 1817] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/b28742680 '''1827'''] Archive.org, [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b28742680 1827] wellcomelibrary.org with rotatable pages; [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 '''1829'''] includes [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914348?urlappend=%3Bseq=316 page 264, MBD in 1828] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=2H8w57Ra1VcC&pg=PT4 '''1830'''] Google Books; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102333835 '''1834''' and '''1835'''] Hathi Trust; [https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=oGk9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 '''1836'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnybq7?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 1836] HathiTrust; [https://books.google.com/books?id=BIbYsr345xAC&pg=PP5 '''1837'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31822043012707?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 1837] HathiTrust; [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24738158#page/n2/mode/1up '''1839'''] Scroll to [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-24678246/view?partId=nla.obj-24744009#page/n47/mode/1up digital page 48] for The Companion” which contains the Civil List etc. nla.gov.au; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=GFFJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP7 '''1847'''] Poor quality print. Google Books; [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MenJ_aEHy20C&pg=PA1 '''1855'''] Google Books, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951d009914372?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1855] HathiTrust; [https://www.scribd.com/document/331196165/Ceylon-Almanac-And-Annual-register-1856-William-Skeen-Government-Printer-Colombo-Ceylon '''1856'''] scribd.com, [https://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/ 1856] Scroll to listing and downloadread online. historyofceylontea.com.
:The [[British Library]] holds similar publications under various titles such as ''Ceylon Calendar'' and ''Ceylon Almanac'' from 1814 to 1862 (broken range), see UIN: BLL01002830047 . In the past there was a microfiche series from Brill (IDC Publishers), I-900/2 (132 microfiche) which perhaps may still be available at some libraries.
*''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from '''1871 to 1999''' (broken range) and other online publications are available on [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/thackers-med-directory-1915/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma, and Ceylon 1915. Third year of publication''] Archive.org. Also includes a list of Nurses and Midwives.:In the late 1930s, the full title of ''Thacker's Indian Directory'' was''Thacker's Indian Directory including Burma and Ceylon'', and included information about Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109427/page/n15/mode/2up Contents], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95891/page/n13/mode/2up '''1937-1938''', 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n13/mode/2up '''1938-1939'''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83751/page/n15/mode/2up Contents] All Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ceylonportuguese00pier ''Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658''] by P E Pieris, Ceylon Civil Service 1920 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/calcuttareviewv01unkngoog#page/n188/mode/2up "The Eurasians of Ceylon"] ''Calcutta Review Volume 63, 1876'', page 173 Archive.org
*Inscriptions
**[https://www.familysearcharchive.org/searchdetails/lapidarium-zeylanicum/1LapidariumZeylanicum/filmpage/004541908 1/mode/2up ''Lapidarium Zeylanicum : being a Collection of Monumental Inscriptions of the Dutch Churches and Churchyards of Ceylon''] by Leopold Ludovici, published 1877Archive. Digitised FamilySearch microfilm, navigate to item 2, images 126-228org. You must be signed in to [[FamilySearch]] to view. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/339757 FamilySearch catalogue entry] which also includes an additional version. Article [http://thedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_11_20/JDBU%20Vol%2018%20No%202%20-%201928%281%29.pdf "Leopold Ludovici"] by J R T. ''Journal of The Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume 18, Part 2, October 1928 pages 79-85 (scroll down). He was variously, a surveyor, journalist and newspaper editor.
**Comments regarding two deaths by J P L: [https://archive.org/details/s9notesqueries11londuoft/page/372/mode/2up Page 372 (scroll to bottom of page) and page 373] ''Notes And Queries A Medium of Intercommunication'', Series 9, Volume 11, January-June 1903. Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007648516#page/n7/mode/2up ''List of inscriptions on tombstones and monuments in Ceylon, of historical or local interest, with an obituary of persons uncommemorated''] by J Penry Lewis 1913 Archive.org. Note the records from this book have been transcribed to a FIBIS database, refer above.
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/100190 ''Ceylon : official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names''] U.S. Office of Geography, 1960. FamilySearch Digital Library. You need to be signed in to FS to view this book, see [[FamilySearch]].
*[https://archive.org/details/martiallawinindi0000mina ''Martial Law in India, Pakistan and Ceylon''] by Joseph Minattur 1962. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*''A History of the Ceylon Police Volume II (1866-1913)'' by A.C. Dep 1969. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/saoa.crl.26422464 Jstor.org version] South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. [https://search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/uva_library/items/u424072 University of Virginia version], scroll down to "Download PDF". [https://archive.org/details/history-ceylon-police-v2/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:''A History of the Ceylon Police Vol.1. 1795-1870'' by G.K. Pippet 1938 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01004088800
*''The Colonial Office List for ...''. Includes a section on each country, and the Colonial Office List at the end of each volume. First published 1862. See [[Directories online#Colonial Office List|Directories online - Colonial Office List]] for a broken range 1862-1920s.
*Article: [http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2017/10/15/focus/ceylon-blue-books "The Ceylon Blue Books"] by Dilini Liyanage 15 October 2017 sundayobserver.lk. Gives details of the contents which can be expected. Note there was a separate ''Ceylon Civil List'' from 1863, so however it seems there is no was a Civil List as part of the ''Blue Book''to 1917 inclusive. The separate publication has not been viewed but possibly may have been more extensive.
:*There are editions from 1863 of ''The Ceylon Civil List'' at the British Library UIN: BLL01000649015, but missing some editions.
*'''[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22Ceylon+Blue+Book%22%29&sort=date ''Ceylon Blue Book'' at Archive.org]'''. Currently (April 2023) includes all the yearly editions mentioned below, from 1866 to 1938, broken range.
:[http://repo.statistics.gov.lk/handle/1/432 ''Ceylon Blue Book, 1916''] Pdf download Digital Library Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka.
:[https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/ceylon-blue-book-26318831/ ''The Ceylon Blue Book''] for 1866, 1868-1869, 1871, 1877 then a broken range 1896-1926. Searchable, read online or download. To read particular pages online, it may be necessary to navigate via the thumbnail images. Jstor.org, South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) Collection.
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=v5ZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Rambles in Ceylon''] by Lieut. De Butts [Augustus] 1841 Google Books. The author was in Ceylon 1836- 1839.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsgeminige01wilkgoog ''The Memoirs of the Gemini Generals; Personal Anecdotes, Sporting Adventures, and Sketches of Distinguished Officers''] by Major-Generals Osborn Wilkinson and Johnson Wilkinson. 1896 Archive.org. Twin brothers Osborn and Johnson Wilkinson were born 1822. The former joined the Bengal Cavalry in 1844, and served initially in the 10th Light Bengal Cavalry, and subsequently the 2nd Bengal Cavalry, (and perhaps other cavalry regiments); the latter HM 15th Regiment of Foot, which went to Ceylon in 1845, with a period at Poona.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0-KfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Rough Notes of a Trip to Reunion, the Mauritius and Ceylon: With Remarks on the Eligibility as Sanitaria for Indian Invalids''] by Frederic J Mouat, Bengal Medical Staff 1852 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=zpZeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The Bungalow and the Tent, or a Visit to Ceylon''] by Edward Sullivan 1854 Google Books
*''The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon'' by Samuel W Baker [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7fsTAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 1854 edition] Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/riflehoundinceyl00bakerich New edition 1874] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromadamspeaktoe00carp ''From Adam's Peak to Elephanta: sketches in Ceylon and India''] by Edward Carpenter 1892 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035F58 Britsh Library Digital Collection] Images may be rotated.[https://archive.org/details/cu31924052629726 New Edition, revised 1903, reprinted 1921] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/twohappyyearsinc00gord ''Two Happy Years in Ceylon''] by C F [Constance Frederica] Gordon Cumming with [https://archive.org/stream/twohappyyearsinc00gord#page/n15/mode/2up Illustrations] New Edition 1901, first published 1892 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gunriflehoundine00snafrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gun, Rifle, and Hound in East and West''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1894. Archive.org. Includes chapters on India and Ceylon. The author appears to have been in the British Army.
:[https://archive.org/details/snafflepapers00snaf/mode/2up ''The Snaffle Papers''] by "Snaffle" (Robert Dunkin) 1898 Archive.org. Two chapters on Ceylon.
:[https://archive.org/details/imageofwarsporti00snaf/page/188/mode/2up "Hunting in the Indies"] (including Ceylon) page 189 ''The image of war : a sporting autobiography'' by “Snaffle” 1914 Archive.org.
:Some chapters may appear in more than one book.
*[http://archive.org/stream/recollectionsab00bringoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''Recollections of a Boer Prisoner-Of-War at Ceylon''] by J N Brink, "late adjudant of General Crowther" 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/huntingshootingi00storrich ''Hunting & Shooting in Ceylon''] by Harry Storey 1907. Archive.org. Includes elephant shooting.
====Planters, the Planting and Other Industries====
*''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Coffee-Planter in Ceylon to his Cousin in London'' by Sampson Brown. ''Simmond's Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany, Volumes 10 and 11'' 1847. Google Books and Hathi TrustHathiTrust. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13 Page 13], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA150 page 150], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA323 page 323], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2YkVAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA376 page 376], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=22 page 14], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=163 page 155], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015062925592?urlappend=%3Bseq=406 page 401]. First published as a book in Colombo 1845 under a slightly different title: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZdeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP9 ''Life in the Jungle or Letters from a Planter to his Cousin in London''] Google Books. (Print quality is poorer in the latter version). [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024456963.0x000001 British Library digital file] Same underlying file, but print may be clearer.[https://archive.org/details/life-in-the-jungle/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version of BL file].*[https://archive.org/details/jrasgbi-1846-v8/page/367/mode/2up "The Cinnamon Trade of Ceylon, its Progress and Present State"] by John Capper page 368 ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 8 1846''. Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA191 "Ceylon. Coffee Planting"] page 191 ''Supplement (No.I) to the Eight Report from the Select Committee on Sugar and Coffee Planting''. British Parliamentary Papers. Reports 1847-8. Seventeenth Volume –Part IV. Also called Volume 23, Part 4. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Cn4SAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PR3 Index]. Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NZteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Coffee-planting in Ceylon''] by Aliquis [Stewart Jolly] 1861 Google Books. Verses
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FZkgjEehFK8C&pg=PP1 ''Coffee Culture in Ceylon. Manuring of estates ... being the essay which obtained the first prize offered by the Planters Association of Ceylon''] Arnold H. White 1875 Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/coffeeplantingin00hullrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Coffee planting in Southern India and Ceylon''] by ECP Hull 1877 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/days-of-old/page/n5/mode/2up ''Days of Old Or, The Commencement of the Coffee Enterprise in Ceylon''] by Two of the Pioneers 1878 (A M andJ Ferguson, Colombo Publishers) Archive.org. Ceylon in the 1840s.
*[https://archive.org/details/coffeeplantersma00brow ''The Coffee Planter's Manual''] by the late Alex. Brown, Kandy. Thoroughly revised with notes by Practical Planters in 1880. [2nd edition]. First published 1872. Archive.org.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ef8aAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''The Coffee Tree and its Enemies: Being Observations on the Natural History of the Enemies of the Coffee Tree in Ceylon''] by the late John Nietner, 2nd edition, revised 1880. There are no Plates in the digital file. Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/prizeessayoncin00chrigoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''Prize Essay on Cinchona Cultivation Written for the Dikoya Planters' Association [Ceylon<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by Thomas North Christie 1883 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/ceylonherplanti00unkngoog#page/n9/mode/2up ''Ceylon & Her Planting Enterprize: In Tea, Cacao, Cardamoms, Cinchona, Coconut, and Areca Palms''] Published 1885 by A.M. & J. Ferguson. Archive.org
*''Fickle Fortune in Ceylon'' by F. E. F. P[enny] 1887 [https://archive.org/details/cu31924087840850 Archive.org version]; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000035676 British Library Digital Collection] - images may be better. The author, in the book, was stated to be the wife of a tea planter, whose name is given as "Penny, Fanny Emily, (Farr), Mrs" in the National Library of India catalogue entry. [https://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=2342 Author: Fanny Emily Penny] (victorianresearch.org). Her works included fiction. Mrs Penny however, was married to a Chaplain of the Madras Presidency, so it appears at least some aspects of this book may be fictional.
*[https://archive.org/details/allaboutrubbergu00ferg ''All About Rubber and Gutta-Percha : the Indiarubber Planter's Manual with the latest Statistics and Information''] by J Ferguson Colombo A.M. & J. Ferguson 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924031239373'' India Rubber, Gutta-Percha, and Balata: occurrence, geographical distribution, and cultivation of rubber plants; manner of obtaining and preparing the raw material, modes of working and utilizing them, and statistics of commerce''] by William T Brannt 1900 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/stream/indiarubberworld29phil#page/224/mode/2up "Rubber Planting in Ceylon and the Malay States"] page 225 ''The India Rubber World'' April 1, 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org Ceylon, [[Malaysia|Malaya]], [[Indonesia|Java]], Sumatra
*[http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2024706 ''Rubber-Planter's Notebook''] by Frank Braham 1911. Pdf download KrishiKosh, Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System. Full title: ''The Rubber Planter's Notebook : a handy book of reference on Para rubber planting with hints on the maintenance of health in the tropics and other general information of utility to the rubber planter : specially designed for use in the field''by Frank Braham 1911. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org*[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19131129&id=68xAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IKYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3954,3399845&hl=en Select page 4, Column 4 for the article "On a Rubber Estate"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' Nov 29, 1913. Google Newspapers. A trainee planter was known as a Creeper.*''A Creeper in Ceylon'' by C V Warren [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/413/mode/2up ''Part 1''] and [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1929-v62/page/431/mode/2up ''Part 2''] pages 413-420 and pages 431-436 ''The Wide World Magazine. Volume 62 1928-1929 November-April''. Archive.org. The author worked on tea estates.
*Online publications of the Planters' Association of Ceylon, in addition to ''Ferguson’s Ceylon Directories'' from 1871 to 1999 (broken range) are available on [http://www.historyofceylontea.com History of Ceylon Tea], accessible from the Home Page, category Publications & Articles.
: From the same website, under Publications and Articles /Other Publications are many miscellaneous titles, mainly relating to tea and rubber, including
::[http://www.historyofceylontea.com/ceylon-publications/other-publications/the-pioneers-1825-1900-the-early-british-tea-and-coffee-planters-and-their-way/quick-view/index.php ''The Pioneers 1825 - 1900 : The Early British Tea and Coffee Planters and Their Way of Life''] by John Weatherstone. 1986. historyofceylontea.com. Also available as [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/3201 a pdf download, Repositori Digital], digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*''The Tropical Agriculturist And Magazine Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society''. Title varied over time: ''The Tropical Agriculturist : Journal Of The Ceylon Agricultural Society''; ''The Tropical Agriculturist : The Agricultural Journal Of Ceylon''. Volume 15 has additional title: ''A Monthly Record Of Information For Planters of Tea, Coffee, Cacao, Cinchona, Sugar, Rubber, Tobacco, Palms, Spices, Rice, And Other Products Suited For Cultivation In Tropics. :Pdf downloads KrishiKosh: Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=%22Tropical+Agriculturist%22&rpp=100&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=ASC&etal=0&submit_search=Update Page A] and [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?query=%22Tropical+Agriculturist%22&sort_by=dc.date.issued_dt&order=asc&rpp=100&etal=0&start=100 Page B]. Editions from 1881 to 1960 (broken range). [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Tropical+Agriculturist+%29&sort=-date Archive.org editions, mainly some, but not all, mirror files from Digital Library of India]
*Other Industries
**[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D6QTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7 ''An Account of the Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon''] by James Steuart, Master Attendant at Colombo… and formerly Inspector of Pearl Banks 1843 Google Books.
