Past glamour
The house Sir John's grandfather built:
There had been only this house on this particular
piece of land owned by the Kotelawala family. Later on, the firm
called Kotelawela Estates Limited of which Sir John was Chairman,
had built cottage-type houses with two bedrooms, named after a
variety of flowers; rukkathana, araliya, manel.
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Operation Wagtails
The first bird-ringing camp in Sri Lanka:
Much of the knowledge we have at present about
the seasonal migration of birds we owe to what is called
Bird-ringing. It is a process in which a light metal ring of
appropriate size is fastened to the leg of a bird while on migration
or of a young bird before it leaves the nest.
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