I fully agree with your thoughts, Garg ji. Me as a plain naturalist, would always like to see more and more pictures showing characteristic and differentiating features of genus and close species be put together for comparison. Also, those plants which look confusingly similar, have to be put together for sake of comparison.
Regards. Dinesh On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 11:07 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear members, > With omnipresent mobile and net, I have the feeling that people are more > and more going to rely on net in their identifications rather than books > etc. > I always remember and appreciate Rawat ji's words in this matter- a > picture says more than a thousand words. Photographs are so beautiful and > give so much details that it will always be difficult for any herbarium > specimen or a book to match. These are so easy to comprehend even to a > layman. > Our group and site is surely going to play a major role in this as far as > Indian Flora is concerned. With increased focus on accuracy (which is only > going to increase with passing time), I do not see a day far when our top > taxonomists will appreciate its value and rely on its identifications. > -- > 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- more than 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 > are directly displayed). > > 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
