Thank you for correcting me, Sir Regards Anil Thakur
On Dec 19, 2016 12:18 AM, "Gurcharan Singh" <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hope Stellaria latifolia > > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Not Gypsophila >> It is Stellaria sp >> >> 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 <011%202551%208297> Mob: 9810359089 <098103%2059089> >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Anil Thakur <anilthakur2...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> What a sorry state of affairs? It is pity on the managers of science, >>> who mostly happen to be non scientists and bureaucrats. One who wants >>> to do something, has many constraints. >>> One will wonder that a very small state H.P. has approximately 8% of >>> Indian plant diversity, but no representative herbarium. >>> >>> Attaching my photograph of Gypsophila cerastioides, clicked at >>> Churdhar in May 2015. >>> >>> Regards >>> ANIL THAKUR >>> >>> >>> On Dec 5, 2016 6:04 PM, "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > Forwarding again for validation please. >>> > >>> > >>> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> > From: C CHADWELL <chrischadwell...@btinternet.com> >>> > Date: 23 November 2016 at 01:08 >>> > Subject: Gypsophila cerastioides in the New York Botanical Garden >>> > To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com> >>> > >>> > >>> > Have noticed recent posts re: Dr Rawat identifying a specimen from >>> Narkanda as >>> > Gypsophila cerastioides. >>> > >>> > Came across this plant growing in the rockery of the New York >>> Botanical Garden, the Bronx. >>> > >>> > Do members considered it has been correctly labelled? >>> > >>> > I was on a lecture tour (mostly to North American Rock Garden Society >>> chapters) which provided >>> > the opportunity for me to spend some time in the herbaria of the New >>> York Botanical Garden (when >>> > speaking to the Manhattan Chapter) and Ann Arbor, Michigan (when >>> speaking to the Great Lakes >>> > Chapter, NARGS and gave a seminar at the University about the >>> 'Himalayan Travels of Walter Koelz' >>> > who with Thakur Rup Chand from Lahoul and their local collectors made >>> extensive collections in the >>> > NW Himalaya including Kulu Valley, Lahoul & Ladakh in the 1930s; Koelz >>> was a zoologist engaged by >>> > Russian NIcholas Roerich for the Urusvati Institute at Naggar, Kulu >>> Valley and pressed a Kohli Memorial >>> > Gold Medal to the Herbarium, see: https://sites.google.com/a/shp >>> a.org.uk/main/kohli-memorial-gold-medals (scroll >>> > down to 2011). >>> > >>> > Duplicate sets of pressed specimens collected for Roerich went to Ann >>> Arbor and the New York Botanical Garden, >>> > where they were subsequently identified and labelled by Dr Ralph >>> Stewart after he retired from being Principal of >>> > the Gordon College, Rawalpindi. Stewart, whilst working in Pakistan >>> regularly visited the New York Botanic Garden >>> > Herbarium. >>> > >>> > The best quality set of pressed specimens (with good field notes) I >>> know of the flora of upper Kulu Valley and >>> > Lahoul anywhere in the world are at Ann Arbor, Michigan - far better >>> than Kew or the Natural History Museum in >>> > London. What a shame that the duplicate set of these lies, abandoned >>> for 80 years "behind-the-scenes" at the >>> > Urusvati Institute - no doubt many of the thousands of specimens have >>> rotted away or become infested by insects. >>> > What a waste of such a hard-won resource. I have tried, on 3 >>> occasions, to gain access to what is left of the >>> > specimens to undertake an initial assessment but have not been >>> permitted entry...... >>> > >>> > This saddens me. Those is a senior position should have done >>> something about it decades ago! >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Best Wishes, >>> > >>> > >>> > Chris Chadwell >>> > >>> > >>> > 81 Parlaunt Road >>> > SLOUGH >>> > SL3 8BE >>> > UK >>> > >>> > www.shpa.org.uk >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > With regards, >>> > J.M.Garg >>> > >>> > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>> > >>> > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia. >>> > >>> > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the >>> world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia >>> website (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 >>> images). >>> > >>> > 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). 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