Totally agree with Sirji, but i am so sorry that i dont have time to scan my books and post on the site.... people here dont have time to check the link for photos???..
i also believe like Dr. Gurucharanji that first reply always has privilege,, but at the same time misleading the members without background is also not a good idea.. and putting the link of some photos of some group.... which cannot be trusted for species identification. regards, On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear friends > Through last few years we have developed a culture on this group, that has > been found to be most useful. Although there have often been suggestions > that people should give identification only if 100 sure, but if we follow > this, only 5 per cent of plants on this group would have been identified. > Thanks to the broad minded approach of some of our experts like Vijayasankar > ji, Pankaj ji, Dinesh ji, Prashant ji, Satish ji, Ritesh ji, Tanay, Balkar > ji and many others, we never hesitate to given a wild guess, if we do not > know identifications. This sets the ball rolling for more than 90 percent of > the uploads for identification. In fact the person giving the first reply > has all privileges, he/she can let imagine run wild to suggest any thing > near. Once that is done, it prompts many who may think this identification > to be wrong and come up with a more suitable match, but with limitations > that he/she has to give reasons for his conclusion and negating the previous > one. The subsequent replies have to be even more careful and give reasons > and evidence for their conclusions. This procedure has been found most > successful in this group, and luckily many on this group are ready to be > convinced with reason. > At the same time it sometimes creates confusion when an odd comment > comes in between without any supportive evidence, but then fortunately our > group is well equipped to sail through and reach conclusion. But then I > would request that all subsequent replies should be backed up with some > evidence that they are able to gather. This helps a lot in reaching > conclusion. > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
