Good evening Usha Di I can only say You are Great.... amazing, a precious gift to me, to the group, i mean this note.
Regards, surajit On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:57 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > SURAJIT and if you please lets include Satish and Pankaj in this > conversation: > > poor mr Linnaeus, > i am not talking about him, neither the mistake/problem of ENGLISH > spelling of proper names his problem, nor could he have started them... > its old English lexicon and use of alphabets... > lets not reduce every problem to him > or any one person its a widespread, widely used, widely re-created > spelling thing... > or may be another european language usage has problem using w for v or > vice versa as we see in calcutta... > > mr. Linnaeus, he was a swede living in the 1700s, Dr Leonard Rauwolf > was a german (( Leonard Rouwolf is this spelling is in english alphabet > as we write it in modern times... Leonard was alive during 1500s and on > frontipiece of his own diaries during herbal explorations he writes his own > name as Leonarti Rauwol.....with last ff seems to have disappeared.. and > french botanist Mr Plumier in 1600s named a genus Rauvolfia (written now a > days as :: genus Rauvolfia Plum. ex L . and MR Plumier published it in > 1700s or the 18th century ( I remember Mr Plumier because of Plumeria or > the Kath champa that we all love so much, notice the plumeria named after > PLUMIER is spelled differently... to correctly name it it should be > PLUMIERIA with 2 i s ) > > so there is no rhyme or reason so far in the language as we see it three > centuries later... usage of alphabets and transliteration across continents > and countries and between latin, german, french and swedish customary usage > of those times and since it was often written by hand and copied by > different hands... spelling errors crept in often... > ask any teacher in Linguistics and Palaeogrphy or paleography and they > will give long explanation.... very interesting stuff. > > > just like I find a or ka written in palm leaf manuscripts many different > ways over the centuries... they are by different persons with their own > vagaries of good // bad handwriting habits... > > have fun deciphering these... > > better yet lets worry about the herbal potential and not the spelling > > > > Usha di > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:37 AM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good morning Usha Di >> >> Long time ago i read a a few lines about Alfred Nobel stating that he was >> afraid of mathematics in his childhood and that's why he didn't have any >> Nobel prize in Mathematics! There was another explanation too! >> >> Don't know if Linnaeus had same experience with the 'W' or not! >> >> Regards, >> >> surajit >> >> >> >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:28 AM, ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Satish and Surajit... >>> resolved? not really... >>> >>> or yes, may be ha ha ... >>> >>> but there is *NO V *in this spelling or two of Dr * Leonhard Rauwolf >>> (also spelled >>> Rauwolff* name... >>> >>> that was the original question, was not it? >>> Usha di >>> === >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM, surajit koley < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Thank you once again Satish Sir. The mystery behind the names is >>>> resolved to the finest level. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Surajit >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Satish Phadke >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Surajit ji >>>>> We had a discussion earlier on this issue. Dear Pankaj kumar ji had >>>>> answered this query. >>>>> I am copy pasting what he had written in the post. >>>>> >>>>> * >>>>> Pankaj Kumar [email protected] via googlegroups.com >>>>> 11/2/10 >>>>> >>>>> to indiantreepix >>>>> Just for correction. I realized that the accepted spelling is >>>>> Rauvolfia L. and not Rauwolfia L. >>>>> WHY? >>>>> Because it was named by Linnaeus like that although the name of person >>>>> on which the name of taxa was based was Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled >>>>> Rauwolff) [(Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 – September 15, >>>>> 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and >>>>> traveller]. >>>>> >>>>> Rauvolfia Plum. ex L. Sp. Pl. 1: 208. 1753 >>>>> >>>>> Regards >>>>> >>>>> *On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM, surajit koley < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > Sir / Madam, >>>>> > >>>>> > An elaborate search in the net tells me that the accepted scientific >>>>> name of this species would be Rauvolfia serpentina. >>>>> > >>>>> > I wonder where from the name Rauwolfia serpentina came, as can be >>>>> seen in many old edition of text books, and also in - >>>>> http://kbd.kew.org/kbd/detailedresult.do?id=152609 , yet didn't find >>>>> any mention in http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-176968 ? >>>>> > >>>>> > Species : Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz, ; For. Fl. Br. >>>>> Burma 2: 171 (1877). >>>>> > Habit & Habitat : herb, plant height 2 feet avg., wild & cultivated >>>>> > Date : 25-07-2009 & 27-07-2009 >>>>> > Place : Garalgacha (Hooghly) >>>>> > ID help : >>>>> http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sarpagandha.html >>>>> > >>>>> > Thank you & Regards, >>>>> > >>>>> > Surajit Koley >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > >
