I think you forgot to attach the images. On 23 November 2016 at 10:14, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Chadwell ji > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "C CHADWELL" <[email protected]> > Date: 23 Nov 2016 3:22 am > Subject: Bergenia ciliata being grown at New York Botanical Garden > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > Cc: > > Just posted images of a container-grown specimen of Bergenia ciliata in a > private > garden in New England. > > Here we have a plant just coming into leaf near the Rock Garden at New > York Botanical Garden, > The Bronx. > > Whilst the upper surfaces did not appear particularly hairy (the degree of > hairiness varies on the upper > surface and can be +/- glabrous) one of the petioles appears decidedly > 'hairy' so presumably it is this > species, though somewhat surprising it copes outdoors at NY get seriously > low winter temperatures. > > > I was on a lecture tour (mostly to North American Rock Garden Society > chapters) which provided > > the opportunity for me to spend some time in the herbaria of the New York > Botanical Garden (when > > speaking to the Manhattan Chapter) and Ann Arbor, Michigan (when speaking > to the Great Lakes > > Chapter, NARGS and gave a seminar at the University about the 'Himalayan > Travels of Walter Koelz' > > who with Thakur Rup Chand from Lahoul and their local collectors made > extensive collections in the > > NW Himalaya including Kulu Valley, Lahoul & Ladakh in the 1930s; Koelz was > a zoologist engaged by > > Russian NIcholas Roerich for the Urusvati Institute at Naggar, Kulu Valley > and pressed a Kohli Memorial > > Gold Medal to the Herbarium, see: https://sites.google.com/a/shp > a.org.uk/main/kohli-memorial-gold-medals (scroll > > down to 2011). > > > > Duplicate sets of pressed specimens collected for Roerich went to Ann > Arbor and the New York Botanical Garden, > > where they were subsequently identified and labelled by Dr Ralph Stewart > after he retired from being Principal of > > the Gordon College, Rawalpindi. Stewart, whilst working in Pakistan > regularly visited the New York Botanic Garden > > Herbarium. > > > > *The best quality set of pressed specimens (with good field notes) I know > of the flora of upper Kulu Valley and* > > *Lahoul anywhere in the world are at Ann Arbor, Michigan - far better than > Kew or the Natural History Museum in* > > *London. What a shame that the duplicate set of these lies, abandoned > for 80 years "behind-the-scenes" at the* > > *Urusvati Institute - no doubt many of the thousands of specimens have > rotted away or become infested by insects.* > > *What a waste of such a hard-won resource. I have tried, on 3 occasions, > to gain access to what is left of the * > > specimens to undertake an initial assessment but have not been permitted > entry...... > > > > *This saddens me. Those is a senior position should have done something > about it decades ago!* > > > > Best Wishes, > > > Chris Chadwell > > > 81 Parlaunt Road > SLOUGH > SL3 8BE > UK > > www.shpa.org.uk > > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
