Thanks, Rawat ji, for your wonderful thoughts. That is why you are such a wonderful storyteller. You have always highlighted its importance from the very beginning in very lucid terms. Ways were shown by you and so many others, in one way or the other, which we are following to our great and thrilling journey of efloraofindia.
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 17:26, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> wrote: > eFI is a huge database considering its coverage on India flora. More than > half of Indian wild flowering plant wealth is displayed in it. Owing to its > coverage/ size it is becoming more and more visible to the people world > over. It is nice knowing (through Dr Anzar, Dr Thakur and a FB post of Dr > Subir Bandyopadhyay) that eFI was mentioned in the lecture of Dr Renner. > She has been communicating with us for the last few years so well aware of > the depth of information in eFI. Mentioned by an internationally > renowned scientist, many in India will also search it now, particularly the > new students of Taxonomy who likes to identify plants by comparing the > images [though hard core taxonomists give it less value, and rightly so, in > comparison to reading detailed morphological features in literature and > detailed examination of the specimens for identification]. BUT we are > living in a world where calculated short cuts for progress are taken by > many or may be all, without disclosing. > > Members have been using this database repeatedly but many more non-members > must be using it too. However, we do not have any method to know how many > people have visited/ consulted eFI. Experts may have the idea that a > ‘visitor count’ type assessment is possible here or not. > > My salutations to Garg Ji and Dinesh Ji for developing and executing this > epic idea of “a site free to all”. Though, it is only possible by the > contributions from many, but each drop is very meticulously accumulated by > Garg Ji to develop such a large ocean. > > Dr Nidhan Ji, as he has mentioned, will be displaying again beautiful > slides on eFI in an international conference in BSI in Feb 2020 where many > hard core taxonomists will be listening him. After which there will > certainly be a spurt of visitors to eFI. > My best wishes to eFI for days ahead; full of accolades, appreciations and > recognition. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr D.S. Rawat > Department of Biological Sciences, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & > Technology Pantnagar-263 145 Uttarakhand, INDIA > *eflorapantnagar* <https://sites.google.com/site/eflorapantnagar/home> > displaying wild flora of Pantnagar > > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 2:25 PM Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Congratulations Mr. Garg. I am sure you will continue to receive many >> such well-deserved accolades in future. >> >> I am proud to be a part of this community. >> >> With warm regards, >> Ashwini >> >> >> On 25-Jan-2020, at 12:45 PM, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> So nice to hear this. 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