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Last Name Alwis
Given Name Alfred de
alt. Names A. 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 (grandfather) ; George de A.(uncle); brother ->A.G.de A., who worked as botanic illustr. at Dept. of Agriculture
Education
Country of Activity Sri Lanka
Worked for officer & naturalist at the Dept. of Agriculture, A. H. G. Alston: Kandy Flora (1938) ; S. D. J. E. Senaratna: The Grasses of Ceylon (1956) ;
Patronage photographe and draughtsman at Dept. of Agriculture, Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Collaborators with his brother ->A. G. de Alwis ;
Techniques botanical, natural, 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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