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Islands

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  • Singapore: the quarantine station on St. John's Island. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • The island known as Graia, in the Gulf of Akabah, at sunset. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Island of Chios (Scio, Khio): a well in a garden. Etching by J. Dambrun after J.B. Hilair.
  • Singapore: a view across part of Blakang Mati Island. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1880.
  • Inosima, a Japanese island, viewed from the village of Katasie on the mainland. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.
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    Island life, or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates / by Alfred Russel Wallace.

    Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913. | Date: 1880
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    Inosima, a Japanese island, viewed from the village of Katasie on the mainland. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

    Floyd, William Pryor. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 30016i
    Part of: Places in South China, Hong Kong, Macao and Japan. Photographs by William Pryor Floyd, ca. 1873.
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    Making humans : complete texts with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays / edited by Judith Wilt.

    Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. | Date: [2003], ©2003
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    Sandrock Chalybeate - Spring, near Niton, Isle of Wight, England. Line engraving by G. Brannon, 1828, after himself.

    Brannon, George, active 1822-1828. | Date: 2 June 1828 | Reference: 18557i
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    Special health problems of island developing and other specially disadvantaged countries : report of a meeting of experts, London, 21-25 January 1980.

    | Date: 1980
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