Edward Banks

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Edward Banks was a British administrator and amateur naturalist who served as a District Officer in Sarawak during the period of the White Rajahs. He was also Curator of the Sarawak Museum in Kuching from 1925 to 1945, including a period of internment during the Japanese occupation of Sarawak in the Second World War.

[edit] Publications

As well as articles in scientific journals, Banks authored the following books:

• Banks, E. (1949). A Naturalist in Sarawak. Kuching Press: Kuching, Sarawak.
• Banks, E. (1949). Bornean Mammals. Kuching Press: Kuching, Sarawak.
• Banks, E. (c.1963). The Green Desert. Author.

[edit] References

• Heimann, Judith M. (1999). The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. University of Hawai'i Press: Honolulu. ISBN 0-8248-2149-1