'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [‎406r] (814/862)

APPENDIX F
AUTHORSHIP, AUTHORITIES, AND MAPS
AUTHORSHIP
This volume has been written by Lieut.-Colonel K. Mason (Professor
of Geography, University of Oxford, formerly General Staff Officer
for Intelligence in Mesopotamia), A. N. Sherwin-White (Fellow of
St. John’s College, Oxford), and Albert M. Hyamson (late Director of
Immigration, Palestine). Contributions have been made by Dr. Norman
White (late Indian Medical Service), Mr. F. Ballard (Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew), Mr. N. B. Kinnear (British Museum (Natural History)),
Dr. J. V. Harrison (Department of Geology, University of Oxford, and
late of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company), and Miss H. F. Pickard-Cam-
bridge, with Miss M. Maitland Wilson and Miss S. Notley as assistants.
Much help has been given privately by Mr. Stewart Perowne. Several
of these have travelled or been stationed in Iraq. Technical informa
tion and photographs have been supplied by the Foreign Office,
Admiralty, War Office, Air Ministry, Meteorological Office, Royal Geo
graphical Society, and British Museum, and by Mr. Evan R. Guest, late
Inspecting Officer for Agriculture in Iraq, and other individuals. Maps
and plans have been prepared in the drawing office of the Oxford sub
section under the direction of Mr. K. W. Hartland.
AUTHORITIES
Only a small number of the books and papers used in the writing of the
Physical Geography and History are listed below, and many short papers
in various geographical and other journals have been omitted. Those
books listed as Miscellaneous have been consulted for more than one
chapter. Material has also been obtained from unpublished sources,
particularly for the sections dealing with geology, irrigation, agriculture,
oil, and communications. There is at present no good modern guide-book
of Iraq.
Physical Geography
Official : Admiralty Intelligence Division: Handbook of Mesopotamia
(Oxford, 1916-1917).
Survey of India: The War Record, 1914-1920 (Dehra Dun, 1925).
Pascoe, Sir E. H.: Geological Notes on Mesopotamia, Mem. Geol.
Survey of India, xlviii (Calcutta, 1922).
Musil, Alois: The Middle Euphrates (New York, 1927).
Ionides, M. G.: The Regime of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris (London,
mi)-
Wilson, Sir A. T.: The Persian Gw// - (Oxford, 1928).
Admiralty: The Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Pilot (H.M.S.O., 1942).