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and guidance of Dr. M. J. Colborne of the Ross Institute (London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Mr. P. G. Shute, the
Assistant Director of the Malaria Reference Laboratory of the
Public Health Laboratory Service, and of my wife. I wish to
record my thanks to them.
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Skippers Island Papers
(5) SKIPPERS ISLAND, 1945-1952
By (the late) S. J. M. Sampson
Introduction by Alwyne Wheeler
During the seven years that he owned Skippers Island, the late
Mr. S. J. M. Sampson kept a log-book of the outstanding events
and also spent a considerable amount of time in investigating its
recorded history. He wrote all this together with his notes on the
history of the houseboat Alpha, later moored on the Island, as a
journal which he had bound. Through the kindness of his widow,
Mrs. Janet Sampson, and his son, Mr. P. A. C. Sampson, I have