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A tropical plant (Brownea grandiceps) with large flower. Photograph.

Two Sri Lankan tree climbers in the canopy.

An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants. With travels in that island / By John Davy.

Agriculture: a coconut tree plantation in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), with workers in the foreground and an overseer (?) off to the left. Wood engraving.

Sita in captivity in Lanka being tempted by Ravana. Chromolithograph.

A figure with the head of an elephant and the legs and feet of a goat dances on a table and is worshipped by Singhalese people around him. Etching and engraving.

Ceylon: Tamil devil dancer. Photograph, ca. 1906.

A personified blood splatter (?) against a grey background looking in alarm at the word 'AIDS/HIV' (?) in yellow Sinhalese lettering; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

A happy Sri Lankan family with a warning about the importance of limiting sexual partners to prevent the spread of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

A durian (Durio zibethinus): an entire and sectioned fruit. Photograph.

A man and woman holding each other within a heart edged with barbed wire representing a warning about the importance of monogamy to help prevent the spread of AIDS; an advertisement by the Health Education Bureau of Sri Lanka. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Laṅkā-bhaiṣajya-maṇimālā / Āryadāsakumāra-Siṁhaśāstriṇā saṅkalitā Svopajñayā 'Kumārakeli' Samākhyayā Hindībhāṣānuvādavyākhyayā ca Samullasitā.

The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae) / foreword by George Taylor.

Administration report of the Director of Health Services / [Ceylon].

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley. Dermaptera (Earwigs) / by Malcolm Burr.

Exhibition of Ayurvedic and indigenous medicine, 1977. 02.11 - 1977. 02.19.

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Laṅkā-bhaiṣajya-maṇimālā / Āryadāsakumāra-Siṁhaśāstriṇā saṅkalitā Svopajñayā 'Kumārakeli' Samākhyayā Hindībhāṣānuvādavyākhyayā ca Samullasitā.

The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae) / foreword by George Taylor.

Administration report of the Director of Health Services / [Ceylon].

The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley. Dermaptera (Earwigs) / by Malcolm Burr.

Exhibition of Ayurvedic and indigenous medicine, 1977. 02.11 - 1977. 02.19.