Bertram Smythies

Bertram Evelyn (Bill) Smythies (11 July 1912 (Nainital, India) – 27 June 1999 (Redhill, England)) was a British forester and ornithologist.Bill's grandfather Arthur Smythies (1847- 1934[3]) came to India in 1873 to join the Indian Forest Service and served until 1902 around Dehra Dun.Bill's father Evelyn (Arthur's son) had degrees in forestry and geology from Oxford and served in the Indian Forest Service from 1908 to 1940.Bill Smythies' father took up a contract post of Forest Advisor to the Maharaja of Nepal and moved to Kathmandu after 1940 and stayed on till 1947.[6] The entry criteria specifies that the award is for botanical art that it 'an aid to identification and a portrayal of diagnostic characteristics' and excludes "flower paintings that are merely artistic" and "illustrations of cultivars of garden origin.
NainitalEnglandornithologistJohn Raymond SmythiesE. A. SmythiessilviculturistUttar PradeshbotanyforestryBalliol College, OxfordIndian Forest ServiceDehra DunKathmanduKachinBurmeseJingpobotanistKingdon-WardSarawakPyreneesJill Smythies AwardLinnean Society of LondonOleg PoluninThe IndependentThe New York TimesWatsoniaUniversity of Reading HerbariumH. H. Bloomer AwardTHE LINNEAN