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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.
*[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]
***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.
*[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://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.
