Dear Sir, Thanks for your mail. I was deputed by the Director, Botanical Survey of India, Kolkata, India as a member of a multidisciplinary team for carrying out studies on the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands three times during 2001-2002. Most of the findings are unpublished so far. As regards my posting on the efloraof India, the same is also unpublished. I have now written a book on the Ethnobotany of the Jarawa Tribe and I am now searching a publisher for the same. As regards your enquiry, the Jarawa territory is restricted to public and we were specially allowed for our studies. About Cycas rumphii, I can tell you only about the procedure of processing of the seeds by them before consumption. Sincerely yours, T. Chakrabarty, Scientist - D Industrial Section, Indian Museum, Botanical Survey of India 1 Sudder Street, Kolkata 700016, India.
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:00 PM, jean-michel Dupuyoo <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear sir, > > My name is Jean-Michel Dupuyoo. I am working as technical manager in a zoo > and botanical garden in South East of France (www.zootropical.com). I > worked with plants as palms and cycads. And sometime I travel and do > personnal study on both kind of plants. Last december my wife and I went to > Andaman (Havelock, North Passage Island, Long Island, Mayabunder area and > Interview Island). We toke pictures of the wild Cycas rumphii (syn. C. > zeylanica) in several places. > > By the past I did article for cycads and palms magazines and I would like > to do one about the cycads I saw. Nothing scientific just some lines and > pictures to share with readers the beauty of Andaman islands and flora. > > I saw on internet a picture that you publish. I found it here > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indiantreepix/8s0vm6pkVDg/TEQD4_wQMpsJ > This picture and the information are very interesting. And I would like to > know if you can teach me more about the cycad's uses made by Andaman > natives. Of course you accept to publish it in The Cycad Newsletter (the > magazine to whom I plan to publish my article) it will be perfect. Of > course I will respect your copyright and cited your name. > > Thank you in advance for your help. Please let me know if you need more > detail. > > All the best for 2014. Sincerely. > > Jean-Michel Dupuyoo > > > Jardin Zoologique Tropical > RD 559 - Quartier Saint-Honoré > 83250 La Londe-les-Maures / France > > > Tél : 04 94 35 02 15 > Fax : 04 94 05 27 79 > > > www.zootropical.com > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
