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Last Name Alwis

Given Name George de

alt. Names G. de A.

Marriage

Children

Year born 1840 c.

Year died 1887 or later

Place of death Peradenyia

Father's occupation ->Haramanis de Alwis Seneviratne

Relatives brother -> William de Alwis; nephews ->A.G.Alwis, photogr. & draughtsman at Dept. of Agriculture & ->Alfred de Alwis, botanic draughtsman

Education

Country of Activity Sri Lanka

Worked for entomologist Frederic C. Moore: The Lepidoptera of Ceylon (London 1880-87) Icones Plantarum Indiae orientalis & Flora sylvatica for southern India (both 1869-74) & George King: Monograph of Myristicaceae (1890) & Monograph of Annonaceae (1893) ;

Patronage journal Tropical Agriculturist

Collaborators woith his brother -> William de Alwis ;

Techniques botanical and entomological drawing and watercolour

Sample(s) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/110504#page/7/mode/thumb;

Archival sources Entomological library of the British Museum Natural History

Published sources Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966; Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Rohan Pethiyogada: The family of Alwis Eneviratna of Sri Lanka. Pioneers of biological illustration, in: Journal of South Asian Natural History 4 (1999): 99-10

other With his brother George also traveled to India.

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