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It may be a straw man argument to suggest a distinction between an amateur and professional naturalist (a word that may still mean something). “Natural history” was once like history itself in a spectrum from archaeologists, museum curators and trained historians to best-selling if sometimes questionable historical aficionados. A disjunction between amateur and professional naturalists […]

By Goolbai Gunasekara Although I am now an ex- Principal of an International School, I am still asked the same questions albeit in varied degrees of anxiety, “Did you have much trouble having boys and girls in the same class?” I interpret the question correctly as being, “Did you have trouble BETWEEN boys and girls […]

By Walter R. Gooneratne (continued from last week) As this would be our last day, we decided to trek to two fabulous places as described by Babun. There were two large plains called Waraketiya and Dananayake Eliya. They were about six miles from camp towards Muduntalawa. The track was again riddled with fresh pug marks […]