Dear Dr. Gurcharan Singh ji, I agree with you. Regards Yazdy.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends > Identification with photographs is often difficult if members don't give > exact sizes of parts, and the size could always confuse depending upon the > degree of zooming. I request members to always provide sizes of important > parts like leaf, flower, fruit, pedicel, bract, etc. I know several > non-botanists would find it difficult to do so, but every member can easily > place a scale adjacent to or below the object (scale or any object which can > give reasonable guess of size: tip of pen, coin, finger, palm, nails, lines > between finger digits, etc). In fact any thing which can give idea about > approximate size would do. > Some members also tend to upload photographs taken from different plants > to complete the upload. This can lead (and has often led) to confusion, > because what the member thinks to be the same plant could be two different > species, and this can easily create confusion for the experts. I would as > such request members to preserve the original serial number of the > photograph (it can be appended at the end of whatever file number member > chooses to give). This can give the expert a fairly good idea about whether > photographs belong to the same or different plants. We also can get exact > time of photography. This can also help in critical cases. > Please cooperate with experts who are doing a great job for you. Give them > your maximum cooperation. > > -- > 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/ > >
