Dr Wijeyeratne wrote several books. Two of the books are specifically on music. His first book was Musical moments: a series of short essays (London: Reeves,? 1924). His second book was a novel. 77ie exiles: a tale of Ceylon student life in London (The Ceylon Morning Leader Press, 1926), dedicated to Miss Gladys de Soysa, his future wife. Even this book has two chapters devoted mainly to music,...

BACKGROUND Ceylon krait (Bungarus ceylonicus) is a venomous elapid snake endemic to Sri Lanka. It inhabits shaded home gardens and forests in the wet zone of Sri Lanka and might creep into houses in the night. Despite frequent encounters with humans, reports of envenoming are very rare. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of a 26-year-old Sri Lankan Sinhalese man with confirmed Ceylon krait en...

monsoonal regime of India and Ceylon, probably produces considerable disturbance of the scheme; Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, for instance, tells us that in Ceylon artificial lakes at an altitude slightly over 2,000 meters may occasionally freeze, though such lakes are certainly not polymictic and presumably belong in the dimictic category. Further details will be found in our forthcoming independent w...

At the inaugural Castellani lecture last year, Vitarana reviewed the life and work of this creative man with particular reference to his work in Ceylon. It remains for me to include in this lecture, some aspects of our own work, related to his. His rich biography also allows of some gleanings on more general issues of science, science administration and the world of medicine. In discussing thes...

One effect of the flora-writing age of the twentieth century has been a Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1968 – 200): its Reversionary work began under the aegis of the Ceylon Flora Project supported by the Smithsonion Institute, the Ceylon Department of Agriculture and the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. The scientific programme of the work has covered the broad ranks of taxonomy bas...