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THE Bulletin of the Raffles Museum was suspended in 1941 when the Japanese occupied Singapore. It has now been revived, and the first issue of the new series (No. 18, October 1947) is made up of papers prepared before the occupation and preserved in the Museum. It is devoted almost entirely to the natural history of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean and based on collections and field notes made on the island by C. A. Gibson-Hill between September 1938 and November 1940. Much of the bulletin describes the birds of the island ; but notes are also included on the nature of the coast, climatic conditions from July 1939 to June 1940, echinoderms, Brachyura, terrestrial crabs, Arachnida, Isoptera, heterocerous and rhopalocerous Lepidoptera, terrestrial reptiles and mammals. The Bulletin also contains an obituary notice of the late director, F. N. Chasen, who was killed by enemy action in 1941.
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Raffles Museum, Singapore. Nature 161, 842 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161842a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161842a0