A reply: "FALSE AND FICTITIOUS BECAUSE JD HOOKER WAS IN ANTARCTICA EXPEDITION WITH CAPT ROSS AND WITH EARNINGS HE EXPORED INDIA-mADRAS,CALCUTTA,PARASNATH,SHILLONG AND THEN HIGHEST MOUNTAINS IN THE WORLD.AND IT TOOK 50YRS WITH HELP OF 35 WORLD TAXONOMISTS TO WRITE FLORA OF INDIA AS DIRCTOR AT KEW..wJ.Hooker his father explored USA and collected Mossses also -this last by mistake came to India as JDH made Cal HERB as duplicate of Kew for scientific reasons. There are less than 2 lakh angiosperms and many with synonyms .How many synonyms for Gynandropsis gynandra.ICBN is only only 40 yrs old and plants have localnames in 2000 languages..First of all classification is artificial in heirachial or systematic(dichotomy) called as horintal and vertical cl.Only two in India know Linnaeus and natural history.Read Linnaeus-Malabar in Google Docs-dcsraju.Prof.Manilal is my good friend .There is dearth of good botanists to work at Calcutta where every dept has its beginnin g as Mrs Clive moved from Madras and took interest in Plants as Clive made Calcutta as capitalof India! William Ferguson made beatiful Marine Algal collection now In CAL unidentified for over hundred years.First of all we should know what is a species .If you know we will not publish new sp if not motivated by promotion or publicity.As one i did not create more species and confusion.Prof Walters a friend of mine at Cambridge visited India .He taught excellent methods of studying variation which is basis of Linnaean species.Students of Corner is now at Guntur Nagarjuna Univ.where thousands of yrs ago Surgery and Chemistry are known befor e Huensong visited in 7th century.History of science is very important.Unfortunateky I could not visit Padua and Cairo pyramids due to Airndia flights.Gusess my wife had return ticket from Bombay-LondonBombay fro rs 5600. MY European tour of Gardens cost me Rs 800/1 " from Sh. Datla C S Raju ji.
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:03 PM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ankush prakash <[email protected]> Date: 4 June 2012 22:14 Subject: query.. To: Balkar Singh <[email protected]>, Dinesh Valke < [email protected]>, efloraindia <[email protected]>, gurcharan singh sir <[email protected]>, j m garg <[email protected]>, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>, Dr Pankaj Kumar < [email protected]>, Tanay Bose <[email protected]>, "Dr. Divya Jain" <[email protected]> 86% of existing species on Earth and 91% of species in the ocean still await description...members please give a more light on this... Regards Ankush Prakash -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. On 16 June 2012 12:03, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: ankush prakash <[email protected]> > Date: 4 June 2012 22:14 > Subject: query.. > To: Balkar Singh <[email protected]>, Dinesh Valke < > [email protected]>, efloraindia <[email protected]>, > gurcharan singh sir <[email protected]>, j m garg <[email protected]>, > Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>, Dr Pankaj Kumar < > [email protected]>, Tanay Bose <[email protected]>, "Dr. Divya > Jain" <[email protected]> > > > *86% of existing species on Earth and 91% of species in the ocean still > await description*...members please give a more light on this... > > Regards > Ankush Prakash > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & > 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 6500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
