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*''Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1878-1922. Multiple volumes: [https://archive.org/search.php?query=Straits%20Asiatic%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Archive.org]. Restricted access Hathi Trust Digital Library may be available to viewers in North America and some other countries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100160169 A], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000525995 B] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007523175 C], including index volumes.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70623 ''Index To All The Journals Nos.1-86 Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society Vol.5 Pt.4 1927]'' Archive.org.
*''Miscellaneous Papers relating to Indo-China: Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1886:[https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto01rost/page/n21/mode/2up Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto01rost/page/n29/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto02rost/page/n23/mode/2up Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/papersrelatingto02rost/page/n25/mode/2up Contents]. Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org:''Miscellaneous papers relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago : Second Series. Reprinted for the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' 1887:[https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/page/n25/mode/2up Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/page/n31/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap02rost/page/n5/mode/2up Volume 2], [https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap02rost/page/n7/mode/2up Contents] Reprints of earlier miscellaneous Journal articles. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Journal%20Malayan%20Branch%29 ''Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society''] Archive.org. Editions from Volume I 1923 to Vol. XXII 1949, including
**[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.25077/page/n15/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya''] by R.O. Winstedt. Published as ''Part I, Volume XIII'' March 1935.
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***[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034776 ''The China Sea Directory Volume II. Containing directions for the navigation of the China Sea, between Singapore and Hong Kong''] by J. W. Reed , R N and J. W. King, R N. 1868. British Library Digital Collection.
**[https://archive.org/details/directoryfornavi00find ''A directory for the navigation of the Indian Archipelago, China, and Japan, from the straits of Malacca and Sunda, and the passages east of Java. To Canton, Shanghai, the Yellow Sea, and Japan, with descriptions of the winds, monsoons, and currents, and general instructions for the various channels, harbours, etc''] by Alexander George Findlay 2nd edition 1878 Archive.org
**[httphttps://myrepositoripbc.pnmgda.gov.my/xmlui/handlepl/1publication/684 37462 ''Malacca Strait Pilot : comprising strait Malacca Strait and its northern approaches, Singapore Strait, and the West Coast of Sumatra''] 1946 Pdf downloadby the Hydrographic Department , Repositori Admiralty 2nd edition 1934 (first edition 1924. Earlier editions were ''China Sea Pilot''). Pomeranian DigitalLibrary, National Library Gdansk University of Malaysia, older websiteTechnology.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeoftrave00bradrich ''A Narrative of Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam and the Malay Peninsula''] by John Bradley 1876 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmalayaacc00swet ''British Malaya; an account of the origin and progress of British influence in Malaya''] by Sir Frank Swettenham, late Governor of the Straits Colony 1907 Archive.org, with a [https://archive.org/stream/britishmalayaacc00swet#page/n472/mode/1up 1906 Map of the Malay Peninsula]
*''The Selangor Journal: Jottings Past and Present''
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=D3dWtARaSVYC&pg=PA21 ''Volume 1'', 1893], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YD5KT9qWC0YC&pg=PP7 ''Volume 2'', 1894], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=W92uKLfHbNkC&pg=PP3 ''Volume 3'', 1895], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EXuT5nne3w0C&pg=PP7 ''Volume 4'', 1896], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gbr4BMkTxbQC&pg=PR1 ''Volume 5'', 1897] Google Books:[https://archive.org/details/selangor-journal-1893v1/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 1'', 1893], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal00unkngoog/page/n3/mode/2up ''Volume 2'', 1894], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal03unkngoog/page/n4/mode/2up ''Volume 3'', 1895], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal01unkngoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Volume 4'', 1896], [https://archive.org/details/selangorjournal02unkngoog/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume 5'', 1897] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/adescriptivedic00denngoog ''A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya''] by N B Dennys 1894 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034CB6 ''A Trip across the Malay Peninsula with H.E. the Governor [Sir C. B. H. Mitchell<nowiki>]</nowiki> ... Reprinted from the "Singapore Free Press"''] by Major H E McCallum (Henry Edward) 1894. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/kelantanstateofm00grah ''Kelantan a State of the Malay Peninsula; a handbook of information''] by Walter Armstrong Graham 1908 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/kelantanstateofm00grah#page/n274/mode/1up Map of Kelantan]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011120833 ''My Tour in Eastern Rubber Lands''] by Herbert Wright 1908 Archive.org [[Ceylon]], 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 fieldby Frank Braham 1911.''. [https://archive.org/stream/naturejournal88londuoft#page/242/mode/2up Review], page 242 ''Nature'' December 21, 1911 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023038106 ''The Far East revisited; essays on political, commercial, social, and general conditions in Malaya, China, Korea and Japan''] by A. Gorton Angier 1908 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org
:[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/244576-the-origins-of-british-borneo ''The Origins of British Borneo''] by Leigh R. Wright 1970. FamilySearch Digital Library. Requires signing in to FamilySearch to view the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/netherlandseasti00unit/page/n7 ''Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya: a Commercial and Industrial Handbook''] by John A Fowler [USA] Trade Commissioner 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02352 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya''] by Hermann Norden 1923. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/ National Library of India Collection. [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea015 Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] version which is a better quality scan.
*[https://archive.org/details/tidemarksbeingso00toml ''Tide Marks, Being Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923''] by H. M. Tomlinson 1924 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures''] by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition 1915. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/diseasesandpests029745mbp ''Diseases And Pests Of The Rubber Tree''] by Arnold Sharples 1936 Archive.org
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/1/browse?rpp=100&order=ASC&sort_by=-1&etal=-1&type=subject&starts_with=R Books on rubber] Scroll down letter R. Pdf downloads, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org. A limited number of editions are also available on [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=Malayan&filtername=title&filtertype=contains&filterquery=malayan&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc Krishikosh] Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System, as pdf downloads. Also [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2047353 Malayan Agriculture 1924 Hand Book]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''], Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/last-of-the-creepers/mode/2up "The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917"] by C R Harrison, an article from pages 19-27 ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961 (Malayan Historical Society). Archive.org. A Creeper is variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930], ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy'' by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"], ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref> or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref> Includes mention of the medical work carried out by Dr.Malcolm Watson which benefited the rubber plantation industry.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalaya0000wins/page/n7 ''A History of Malaya''] by Sir Richard Winstedt. Revised and enlarged 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishoversease0000carr/page/n5/mode/2up ''The British Overseas : Exploits of a Nation of Shopkeepers''] by C E Carrington 1950. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes a some chapters about Malaya. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carrington_(historian) Charles Carrington (historian)].
*The campaign in Malaya against the Communist terrorists, also known as the Malayan Emergency.**[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1950-vol94vol95/page/307/mode/2up "Some Account of an Operation in the Malayan Jungle"] by Lieutenant-Colonel K H Clark RAMC page 307 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 94 1950'' Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1951-vol96vol97/page/n381/mode/2up "Experiences in a Field Surgical Team working in Pahang State Malaya January-July 1950"] by Geoffrey J Hadfield and A J Heber page 360 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 96 June 1951'' Archive.org. **[https://archive.org/details/junglegreen009665mbp/page/n9/mode/2up ''Jungle Green''] by Arthur Campbell 1954, first published 1953. Archive.org. The campaign in Malaya against the Communist terrorists. Campbell served with the [[12th Regiment of Foot|Suffolk Regiment]].**[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0354142/page/n3/mode/2up ''Army Operations in Malaya, 1947-1960''] prepared for the [USA] Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defence September 1964. Archive.org**[https://archive.org/details/malayassecretpol0000comb ''Malaya's secret police, 1945-60 : the role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency''] by Leon Comber 2009 reprint, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow.**[https://archive.org/details/malayanscoutssas0000durk ''Malayan Scouts SAS : a memoir of the Malayan Emergency, 1951''] by J C Durkin 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8788/page/n1/mode/2up ''A History of Malaya and her Neighbours, Volume One''] by F J Moorhead 1957. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/goldenkhersonese0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Golden Khersonese : studies in the historical geography of the Malay Peninsula before A.D. 1500''] by Paul Wheatley. 1961. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofmalayaa00kenn ''A History of Malaya, A.D. 1400-1959''] by J Kennedy 1962. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishcivilians0000kenn/page/n5 ''British civilians and the Japanese war in Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45''] by Joseph Kennedy 1987. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/north-borneo-tregonning/page/n1/mode/2up ''North Borneo''] by K G Tregonning 1960. A volume in the Colonial Office's series ''The Corona Library'', published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderns0000treg ''A History of Modern Sabah (North Borneo, 1881-1963)''] by K G Tregonning 1965. A revised second edition of the book first published in 1958 under the title ''Under Chartered Company Rule''. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The British North Borneo Company.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishinmalayaf0000treg/page/n5 ''The British in Malaya : the first forty years, 1786-1826''] by K G Tregonning 1965. Archive.org Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernm0000treg/page/n5 ''A History of Modern Malaya''] by K G Tregonning 1967. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/kellywalshshandb00sing ''Kelly & Walsh's Handbook of the Malay Language for the use of Tourists and Residents''] Sixth edition 1919 Archiv.org
*[https://archive.org/details/aab3248.0001.001.umich.edu ''An English-Malay Dictionary''] by Rev. W G Shellabear 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ve-mm/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Vocabulary of Malay Medical Terms''] by P N Gerrard. First edition 1905, reprinted 1933. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b21505019 ''Hilda's "Where is it?" of recipes : containing, amongst other practical and tried recipes, many old Cape, Indian, and Malay dishes and preserves: also directions for polishing furniture, cleaning silk, etc. and a collection of home remedies in case of sickness''] by Hildagonda J Duckitt 1908 edition Archive.org. First published 1891. The author lived at the Cape of Good Hope.
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