Heartily Congratulations to Shrikant Ji for another feather in his crown. Thanks Dinesh ji for Information
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Dr. Badri Narayanan T < [email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to Dr Shrikant for the stupendous work. I have greatly > benefitted from his previous books. Can I pre order the new one? > Regards, > Dr. Badri > On 18 Jan 2014 21:54, "Dinesh Valke" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> >> Good news to enthusiasts of Sahyadri flora. Shrikant (Ingalhalikar) ji's >> third and last field guide in the series, aptly named as 'Final Flowers of >> Sahyadri' will be released on 21 March 2014 - a day auspicious to people of >> our kind - the 'World Forest Day'. >> >> Shrikant ji has been working endlessly, more so for the last two years to >> get the final lot of flowers into this new book. I and Prashant have been >> fortunate to join him during his explorations, and have benefited from >> every trip. But I must say every trip did not benefit him necessarily. >> Several times he would need to go in successive weeks or so to find the >> plants blooming! In some cases, it would be successive years! >> >> Some details of the new book that I know from him: "It will contain 800 >> new species of flowering plants of north Western Ghats. With this third and >> last field guide in the series, documentation of 2200 species from this hot >> spot habitat gets completed. Grasses and sedges are not in scope of this >> set of 3 field guides. Besides the 800 species (530 wild and 270 >> cultivated), the new guide also enlists and gives identification help for >> about 100 species of Palms and Conifers of this region." >> >> He is launching a website too ... http://www.flowersofsahyadri.in/ on >> 1st March 2014, which would have all the information and updates related to >> books authored by him. The new book and any of his earlier books may be >> ordered by logging on to the website. >> >> Identick, a new web application for identification of the 2200 species of >> flowering plants of Sahyadri is also being launched along with the website. >> I am sure it will serve like a ready reckoner to identify the plants found >> in Sahyadri. >> >> I am attaching a small snapshot of the book cover that he shared with me. >> The A5 sized book has 288 pages. >> >> >> Regards. >> Dinesh >> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- 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.
