THE British Crown Colony of Ceylon is in the throes of constitutional change. Many people think that this great island is part of India. In fact, its administration is wholly separate from that of ...

THE lovely island of Ceylon, which had been a British Crown Colony since 1798, could have become completely independent in 1948 if its political class had so decided. In the vast, comprehensive ...

In 1829 the Crown Colony of Ceylon was visited by two distinguished civil servants. Tasked by the British government to investigate the state of the colony and the future of its administration, they ...

(1) MR. DISTANT'S Appendix to the account of the British Indian Homoptera in the admirable “Fauna” has plenty to chronicle in the shape of novelties. In the Cicadas, so striking a group in the warm ...

The island off the southern tip of India that is today the nation of Sri Lanka was, from 1802 to 1948, a colony in the British empire known as British Ceylon. During this time, British settlers ...

THE volumes on mammals by Blandford in the first edition of “The Fauna of British India”, have long been out of date and the large amount of new material has called for a new edition. Mr. R. I. Pocock ...