E. A. Smythies

Evelyn Arthur Smythies, CIE (19 March 1885[1] – 10 January 1975[2]), was a distinguished forester and philatelist, born of British parents in India.[3] Smythies was an expert on the ecology of Uttarakhand and Nepal. His careful studies of the earliest postage stamps of India, Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal, and Canada produced groundbreaking handbooks on which philatelists rely, even today.

  1. ^ Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 81.
  2. ^ H.G.C. (1975). "Evelyn Arthur Smythies, C.I.E.". The Commonwealth Forestry Review. 54 (2 (160)): 101–103. ISSN 0010-3381. JSTOR 42604409.
  3. ^ With respect to Smythies' given name, John Evelyn was the author of Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber (1664), widely recognised as one of the most influential texts on forestry ever published.