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*[https://archive.org/details/oldceylonsketche00capp ''Old Ceylon, Sketches of Ceylon Life in the Olden Time''. ''With Illustrations''] by John Capper 1877 Archive.org. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000059E20 British Library Digital Collection] where images may be better. Generally refers to a period 30 to 40 years prior ie c 1840s.
*''Excursions, Adventures, and Field-sports in Ceylon: Its Commercial and Military Importance, and Numerous Advantages to the British Emigrant'' by Lieut,-Colonel James Campbell 1843 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w6Q5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=SaU5AQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II] Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005E080 Volume I], [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000005347E Volume II] British Library Digital Collections.
*[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.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=j9ENAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The History of Ceylon from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: With an Appendix, Containing an Account of Its Present Condition'']‬ by William Knighton 1845 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/historyceylonfr01kniggoog Archive.org version]
:''Forest Life in Ceylon'' by W Knighton, formerly Secretary to the Ceylon Branch, Royal Asiatic Society 1854 [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl01knig Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/forestlifeinceyl02knig Volume II]. This work has been described as a novel, (but somewhat against this view see further comments.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MzVCfoQorHwC&pg=PA144 Page 144] ''Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden'' by Sharae Deckard 2009 Google Books</ref>) [http://www.djo.org.uk/indexes/authors/198.html William Knighton], biographical details, djo.org.uk
*''Orient Line Guide'' by W J Loftie [https://archive.org/details/orientlineguide00unkngoog 3rd edition 1888] Archive.org [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000560B2# 5th edition 1894] British Library Digital Collection. Covers the voyage to Ceylon, including Suez, (then on to Australia).
*[http://archive.org/stream/journalceylonbr00unkngoog#page/n48/mode/2up "A brief sketch of the medical history of Ceylon"] by J L Vanderstratten page 306 ''The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 1886 Volume IX, no 32'' Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/palmspearlsorsce00waltrich/page/n7/mode/2up ''Palms and Pearls: or Scenes in Ceylon''] by Alan Walters 1892 Archive.org.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000007CEC ''Manual of the Province of Uva''] by Herbert White, of the Ceylon Civil Service. 1893. With a [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000007CEC#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=192&z=-776.6513%2C0%2C4236.3026%2C4179 Map of the Province of Uva] page 169. British Library Digital Collections
*Also see accounts in the following section.
====Planters and , 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 Trust. [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://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
*''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.
**[https://archive.org/details/allaboutgoldgems00ferg/page/n4/mode/2up ''All about Gold, Gems, and Pearls in Ceylon. Compiled by the publishers from every available authority, with special reference to establishment of a goldmining industry, as well as the extension of the present gem-digging enterprise in the colony''] Published by A.M and J Ferguson, Colombo 1881. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/notesonpearlchan00thur/page/n4/mode/2up ''Notes on the Pearl and Chank Fisheries and Marine Fauna of the Gulf of Manaar''] by Edgar Thurston. 1890 Archive.org
**''Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar'' by W A Herdman, (William Abbott) ''With Supplementary Reports upon the Marine Biology of Ceylon by Other Naturalists''. [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme01herd/page/n3/mode/2up Part I] 1903, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme02herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part II] 1904, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme03herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part III] 1905, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme04herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part IV] 1905, [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme05herd/page/n4/mode/2up Part V] 1906, with a [https://archive.org/details/reporttogovernme05herd/page/n7/mode/2up description of the contents] page v, Volume V. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofzoo19121504zool/page/260/mode/2up "Studies on Pearl-Oysters and Pearls.-I. The Structure of the Shell and Pearls of the Ceylon Pearl-Oyster (Margaritifera vulgaris Schumacher): with an Examination of the Cestode Theory of Pearl-Production"] by H Lyster Jameson pages 260-358, ''Proceedings of The Zoological Society of London, 1912''. Archive.org. In which Dr Jameson disagrees with the theories of Prof. Herdman.
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