Pieris Paulus Edward 1874-1955

Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala was a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist, and artist. He specialised in fauna and human fossils of the Indian subcontinent. From 1939 to 1963, he was the director of the National Museum of Ceylon, and from 1961 to 1964, he was also the dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Vidyodaya University.