And sorry for the wrong upload. I remember, I have also clicked Gypsophila at Churdhar with you, Dr. Gurcharan Singh Sir. I'll check the collection again when the time permits.
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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