Adriaan Constant Tutein-Nolthenius (16 September 1892– 13 October 1954) was a Dutch-born Ceylonese tea planter, amateur naturalist, author and appointed member of parliament.
[1] Adriaan Constant Tutein-Nolthenius was born on 16 September 1892 in Vlissingen, Netherlands, the oldest son and second child of Henri Paul Jules Tutein Nolthenius (1861–1930), a Burgemeester, and Petronella Adriana van Haeften (1868–1942).
In 1925 he owned a tea plantation in West Haputale, adjoining the Horton Plains National Park.
The book documents the Society's campaign to prevent the indiscriminate slaughter of game for profit.
[3] An amateur naturalist, he was responsible for collecting several species of animals from the central highlands, including the Sri Lankan Highland Tree Mouse (Vandeleuria nolthenii) in 1929, the Sri Lankan shrew (Suncus fellowesgordoni) in 1932, and a pair of rare Horton Plains slender loris (Loris tardigradus nycticeboides) in 1937.