A specimen of this species belongs to the Rafflesian collection; but it is believed that it was brought from Borneo, whence Sir Stamford obtained some valuable subjects of Natural History, particularly the two following subjects.
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A specimen of this species belongs to the Rafflesian collection; but it is believed that it was brought from Borneo, whence Sir Stamford obtained some valuable subjects of Natural History, particularly the two following subjects.
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Lee Kong Chian's multilingual and multicultural vision was more moderate and was far more in line with the original Rafflesian vision for education in Singapore—indeed, what the British Government had hoped for the colony.
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Untamed, "exotic," Borneo figures as an imperialist outpost of adventure that has run to seed from the beginnings: rotten from within. Lingard, the elusive commercial explorer whose speculation on an inland river ruins Almayer, embodies the circulating myths of a gentlemanly imperialism, of what has been pointedly termed the "Rafflesian aspirations" of Victorian businessman doubling as would-be adventurers of empire, […]
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But Philip Liau was always in the thick of Rafflesian life and he made his impact in much more subtle and direct ways. His closeness to his teachers was exemplified by the fact that he regarded them with respect and allowed no one to take them for granted.
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