> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 441](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33258919) of TL-2 Suppl. VIII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/14224-1) LSID 14224-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21514359) QID Q21514359 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Guest, Evan Rhuvon (1902-1992), British agronomist and botanist, born 24 Jan 1902 in London, educated at Eton, B.Sc. 1924 Imperial College, London, Southeastern Agricultural College, Wye (Kent) ca. 1925, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad ca. 1926, followed by two years in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, held various agricultural postings in Iraq through 1933, agricultural advisor, I.C.I. (Malaya) in London 1934-1937, botanist, Rubber Inst., Kuala Lumpur 1937-1940, B.B.C. Foreign Service in London and Cairo during W.W.-II, again in Iraq 1953-1958, returned to London and worked at Kew on the *Flora of Iraq* until 1987, died 4 Mar 1992. **Abbreviated name**: *Guest* \[standard form in IPNI: *Guest*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BAG|BAG]], [[Collection BUH|BUH]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection K|K]], duplicates (now lost?) in local Iraqi herbaria in Rustam and Abu Ghraib. #### Bibliography and biography APN p. 247; BFM p. 287 (index); Bossert p. 155; Frodin ed. 2: 1029 (index); IH 2: 244; LS suppl. 10.237; Strid p. 141, ed. 2: 195. #### Biofile - Anon., Daily Telegraph \[newspaper\]: 3 Apr 1992. (portr.) - Blakelock, R.A., 1948. Kew Bull. 1948: 375. \[Rustam Herb.\] - Blakelock, R.A. & E.R. Guest, 1966. *In*, E.R. Guest (ed.), Fl. Iraq 1: 113; Id.: 186-187, 193. (bibl.) - Gillett, J. & M. Harley, 1992. The Guardian \[newspaper\]: 13 Apr 1992. (portr.) - Harley, M., 1992. The Independent \[newspaper\]: 15 Apr 1992. - Harley, M.M. & J. Gillett, 1992. Taxon 41: 616-617. - Hedge, I.C. & J.M. Lamond (eds.), 1970. Index collectors Edinburgh Herb.: 86. - Wickens, G.E., 1982. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 40: 314. #### Outside our period Co-editor with Clifford Charles Townsend (1926-x), *Flora of Iraq* ... \[Baghdad\] (Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Iraq) 1966-x. ### Publications ##### n.37.417. Notes **Title** *Notes* on *trees* and *shrubs* for lower *Iraq*... Baghdad (Printed at the Government Press) 1932. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1932, cover-t.p., t.p., p. \[i, contents\], \[1\]-18, \[i-ii, adverts.\]. *Copies*: BM, K (photocopy). – Issued as Bull. Dept. Agric. Iraq, Nr. 26. 1932. *Note*: The verso of the cover-t.p. states "This bulletin is also being issued in Arabic" but we have been unable to determine if this was done. ##### n.37.418. plants **Title** Notes on *plants* and plant *products* with their *colloquial names* in *´Iraq*... Baghdad (Printed at the Government Press) 1933. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1932, cover-t.-p., p. \[i-vi\], i-x, \[1\]-111, map (col., fold.), \[3 p. advert., "Some publications of the ´Iraq..."\]. *Copies*: BM (n.v.), HH (n.v.), K(2) (n.v.) (1 copy Guest's personal copy with corrected proofs laid in at end), LC (n.v.), US, USDA. – Issued as Bull. Dept. Agric. Iraq, Nr. 27. 1933.