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Last Name Alwis
Given Name A. G. de
alt. Names A. G. A. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1885 c.
Year died 1956 or later
Place of death Peradenyia
Father's occupation botanical illustrator ->William de Alwis (1842-1916)
Relatives Haramanis de Alwis Seneviratne (granduncle/stepfather?); George de Al.(uncle); brother Alfred, who succeeded his father in 1902 as botanic draughtsman
Education
Country of Activity Sri Lanka
Worked for officer and naturalist at the Dept. of Agriculture, A. H. G. Alston: Kandy Flora, (1938) ; S. D. J. E. Senaratna: The Grasses of Ceylon (1956) ;
Patronage photogr. & draughtsman at Dept. of Agriculture, Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Collaborators with his brother ->Alfred de Alwis ;
Techniques botanical and entomological drawing, watercolour, and photography
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Archival sources www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wht.lk%2Fzeylanica%2Fvolume-4-number-1%2FPethiyagoda%
Published sources Rohan Pethiyogada: The family of Alwis Seneviratna of Sri Lanka. Pioneers of biological illustration, in: Journal of South Asian Natural History 4 (1999): 99-10 ;
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