From the Introduction:
The papers in this volume were delivered between 1874 and 1928 as talks before the Royal Colonial Institute, an organization created in 1868 to provide a meeting place in London for persons with a common interest in the British Empire and to help disseminate information about Britain’s overseas possessions…The papers collected here deal with British controlled territories in the Malay Peninsula and in north Borneo, the territories that were to become Malaysia.
Contents:
- Settlements in the Straits of Malacca – Leonard Wray
- The Straits Settlements and British Malaya – Frederick A. Weld
- British North Borneo – Walter H. Medhurst
- The Malay Peninsula: Its Resources and Prospects – W. E. Maxwell
- British Rule in Malaya – F. A. Swettenham
- British Borneo – E. P. Gueritz
- Life in the Malay Peninsula: As It Was and Is – Hugh Clifford
- British and Siamese Malaya – Hugh Clifford
- Some Experiences of Colonial Life – Mrs. Douglas Cator
- Ceylon, The Malay States and Java Compared as Plantation and Residential Colonies – John Ferguson
- The Federated Malay States – Ernest W. Birch
- Sarawak: An Independent State within the Empire – Charles Hose
- Singapore and Naval Geography – Vaughan Cornish
- Some Problems of Education and Public Health in Malaya – George Maxwell
- Tropical Agriculture in Malaya, Ceylon, and Java – W. G. Ormsby-Gore
- Appendices
- Notes on Some of the Participants in the Discussion
