Description

Donated by W.M. McNeill

Miscellaneous items:

1. Scrapbook of press cuttings referring to a criminal trial involving the theft of satinwood logs from Crown forests in Ceylon. 1929-30. 5 ff.
2. Note by Mr McNeill on ‘Pearl Fishery’, Marichchukkaddi, Gulf of Mannar, Ceylon, 1925. 4 ff.
3. Reprints from forestry journals (3 items) W.M. McNeill Notes of Exotic Forest Trees in Ceylon, Ceylon Government Press, Colombo, 1935. 7 pp.
4. Ceylon. Ordinance No. 2 of 1937. ‘To provide for the protection of the Fauna and Flora of Ceylon’. 27 pp.
5. Ceylon. Sessional Paper VII-1935. ‘Report on the Management and Exploitation of the Forests of Ceylon’. 50 pp.
6. Ceylon. Sessional Paper XI-1936. ‘Further Papers on the Report on the Management and Exploitation of the Forests of Ceylon’. 17 pp.
7. All-Ceylon Exhibition Colombo 1912. Specimen Woods and Minor Forest Produce exhibited by T.J. Campbell, Esq., Conservator of Forests, Ceylon. 142 pp.
8. Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society. Rules and Objects, 1948. 8 pp.
9. Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society. Summary of Laws relating to Wild Life of Ceylon, n.d. 4 pp.
10. Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society. Minutes of fifty-sixth Annual General Meeting. Colombo, 15 December 1949.
11. Ceylon Game and Fauna Protection Society. Annual Report and Accounts, fifty-eighth year, 1950-51.
12. Drafts of two reviews by Mr McNeill of Administration Reports of the Conservator of Forests, Ceylon. 1966-72. 13 ff.
13. Programme note on the unveiling of the War Memorial Tablet, Kurunegala, 27 January 1923 with press cuttings. 4 ff.
14. Papers relating to Mr McNeill’s appointment in the Colonial Service, 1921-22. 22 ff, 4 printed items.