''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' is a

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published by the

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum The Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) ( Chinese: 李光前自然历史博物馆) is a museum of natural history at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore. It is named after Lee Kong Chian, a prominent Chines ...

at the

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. It covers the

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, and conservation of Southeast Asian

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.Supplements are published as and when funding permits and may cover topics that extend beyond the normal scope of the journal depending on the targets of the funding agency. It was established as the ''Bulletin of the Raffles Museum'' in 1928 and renamed ''Bulletin of the National Museum of Singapore'' in 1961, before obtaining its current title in 1971.

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