Nature Contained: Environmental Histories of Singapore

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements x An Introduction, by Timothy P. Barnard 1 Source 1 John Crawfurd’s Singapore: An Excerpt from 9 A Descriptive Dictionary of the Indian Islands and Adjacent Countries (1856) Chapter 1 Singapore’s Changing Landscape since c. 1800 17 Tony O’Dempsey Source 2 The Tiger Club: Excerpts from Accounts of Tigers in 49 19th-Century Singapore Chapter 2 Tigers of Colonial Singapore 55 Timothy P. Barnard and Mark Emmanuel Source 3 Wallace’s Singapore: An Excerpt from 81 The Malay Archipelago (1869) Chapter 3 Wallace in Singapore 85 John van Wyhe Source 4 Visiting the Botanical Gardens: Excerpts from 110 Fox’s Guide to the Botanic Gardens (1889) Chapter 4 The Environmental Relevance of the Singapore 115 Botanic Gardens Nigel P. Taylor Source 5 Regulating the Wildlife Trade: Excerpts from 138 Report of the Wild Animals and Wild Birds Committee, Singapore, 1933 Chapter 5 The Beastly Business of Regulating the 145 Wildlife Trade in Colonial Singapore Fiona L.P. Tan v Source 6 A Whale’s Tale: Excerpts from The Annual Reports 179 of the Raffles Museum and Library, Newspaper Accounts and Visitors’ Memories Chapter 6 The Raffles Museum and the Fate of Natural 184 History in Singapore Timothy P. Barnard Source 7 Agricultural Production in Singapore: Excerpts from 212 Annual Reports of the Primary Production Department, Ministry of National Development from the 1970s and 1980s Chapter 7 Agriculture and the End of Farming in Singapore 216 Cynthia Chou Source 8 “Wildlife and Singapore”: An Assessment from 241 the 1980s Chapter 8 The Nature Society, Endangered Species, and 245 Conservation in Singapore Goh Hong Yi Source 9 “And That Was Good”: A Brief History of the 276 Greening of Singapore Chapter 9 A City in a Garden 281 Timothy P. Barnard and Corinne Heng Bibliography 307 Contributors 321 Index 323 vi Contents ...