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*[https://archive.org/details/malaymagicbeingi00skea/page/n7/mode/2up ''Malay Magic : being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula''] by Walter William Skeat of the Civil Service of the Federated Malay States. 1900 Archive.org
→Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. (Before you can borrow this book, you must register. Only one person at a time is able to borrow the book, so you perhaps may need to wait until the book is returned). Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the [[Western Front]].
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my Repositori Digital] Digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Book files are available as pdf downloads. Contains some books in English, although it does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue” appears to be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. A number of the English language books are in the category [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/111/browse Koleksi Peribadi]. [http://www.aseanlibrary.org ASEAN Digital Library] contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.
:'''Some downloads of books are sample pages only, but this may not be apparent from the catalogue entry. This appears to be a frequent situation for books, although articles appear to be fully available'''.
:Books available from NLM include (and others are listed later):
:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 ''Notes from the Sarawak Gazette 1909-1915''] by J C Moulton. Note some editions of the ''Sarawak Gazette'' are online from 1907, see below.
*[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/b28096265/page/n5/mode/2up "Malay Materia Medica"] by H N Ridley pages 122- 138, ''Journal of the Straits Medical Association No 5 April 1893-December 1894''. Followed by, in the same digital file, [https://archive.org/details/b28096265/page/31/mode/2up "Malay Plant Names"]. From elsewhere this was by H N Ridley from ''Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society July 1897'', pages 31-284. Ridley elsewhere was stated to be Director of Gardens and Forests at Singapore. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughbuffersta1896macg ''Through the Buffer State : a record of recent travels through Borneo, Siam and Cambodia''] by Surgeon-Major John MacGregor, Indian Medical Service. 1896 Archive.org.
*''Five Years in Siam, from 1891 to 1896'' by H Warington Smyth, formerly Director of the Department of Mines in Siam. 1898. With Maps and Illustrations by the author. Also includes the Malay Peninsula. [https://archive.org/details/fiveyearsinsiam02smytgoog Volume I] Archive.org. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuc.2087261v1?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Volume I], [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hx73ia?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 Volume II] HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034A76 Volume I] with [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034A76#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=24&z=-842.9381%2C0%2C3263.8761%2C2637 General Index Map]; [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000004608 Volume II] with with [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000004608#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=350&z=563.9024%2C-405.1172%2C2564.9434%2C3174.69&r=90 Map of the Malay Peninsula] (rotatable). British Library Digital Collection.
:[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/indiarubberworld28phil#page/218/mode/2up "The Rival of "Para" Rubber in the East"] page 219 ''The India Rubber World'' April 1, 1903 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/cu31924014072791/page/n9/mode/2up ''European Settlements in the Far East; China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, etc''] by DWS [catalogued as D Warres Smith] 1900 Archive.org. The author appears to have been the publisher of/associated with the annual publication ''Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan…'', see further below for online editions.*[https://archive.org/details/malaymagicbeingi00skea/page/n7/mode/2up ''Malay Magic : being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula''] by Walter William Skeat of the Civil Service of the Federated Malay States. 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023108933 ''Siam in the Malay Peninsula: a short account of the position of Siam in the states of Kelantan, Patani, Legeh and Siam''] by R D Davies 1902 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China''] by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fareasterntropic00ireluoft/page/n6/mode/2up ''The Far Eastern Tropics, Studies in the Administration of Tropical Dependencies: Hong Kong, British North Borneo, Sarawak, Burma, the Federated Malay States, the Straits Settlements, French Indo-China, Java, the Phillipine Islands''] by Alleyne Ireland 1905 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924011085457#page/n78/mode/1up Map of Singapore Town]
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924011085457#page/n86/mode/1up Map of the Malay Peninsula]
:[https://archive.org/details/illustratedguide00harr ''An illustrated guide to the Federated Malay States''] edited by Cuthbert Woodville Harrison, Malayan Civil Service. 3rd edition 1920. Archive.org. Missing the Map. [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2955 1923 edition] Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only.:[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2777 ''Malaysia and Indo-China : Information for Visitors to British Malaya, Dutch-Indies (Java, Bali, Sumatra etc.) Siam, French Ind0-China'']. Published by Thos. Cook & Son, Singapore 1926. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only.
*[https://archive.org/details/ruralsanitationi00wats ''Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands''] by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There are two chapters on Malaya relating to malaria.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2917 ''The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines''] by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. "This book is in the main an [enlarged] English edition of the author's work 'Landbouwdiekunde van Oost-Indië' published in 1919." Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Note, sample pages only. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002010015 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldbookofjungl0000hose ''The Field-Book of a Jungle-Wallah : being a description of shore, river & forest life in Sarawak''] by Charles Hose. 1985 reprint, first published 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hose Charles Hose] Wikipedia. He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884.
*[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.
