The 18th and 19th centuries’ Sri Lanka saw many British naturalists studying the island’s rich biodiversity. They also contributed to profiling the same. One of them, W.W.A. Phillips, a tea planter who was particularly interested in mammals, published the Manual of the Mammals of Sri Lanka in 1932. One of the chapters in the book […]
COLOMBO During the 18th and 19th centuries when Sri Lanka was a British colony, many British naturalists studied the island’s rich biodiversity and contributed to profiling the same. Tea planter W.W.A. Phillips was one of them, a man who was particularly interested in mammals, and eventually published the “Manual of the Mammals of Sri […]
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