Hi, Singh ji, I am always surprised by the amount of valuable inputs & inf. provided by the experts though everybody being busy in their work schedule. I feel everybody is deeply involved in this learning process & simultaneously creating an unparalleled database for Indian Flora. Kudos to the experts!!! On 1 May 2010 22:50, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear members > The last few days on the group have been really exciting with active > participation of new experts Tanay, Satish Chile ji and Balkar ji, renewed > increased activity of less active members and joining in of members > practicing traditional healing through plants, and some of us joining the > bodhi-nighantu group. Last few months had seen several instances of conflict > between scientific names and local names, but the past month has shown a > decent correspondance/collaboration between local names and scientific > names. Correct scientific identity of several plants has been easily solved > because a traditional healer provided a unique local name of the plant. In > the same way where same local name was found to be applied to more than one > different plants, and the identity of the plant was doubtful the experts > were able to sort out the correct identity through comparison of scientific > information and description. Perhaps there is no better example > of correspondence between modern version folk taxonomy and modern taxonomy. > I am enjoying this interaction, and I know Dinesh ji, Hari ji and other > members familiar with local names are also enjoying it. It is no wonder the > activity in both the groups is picking up so well. Garg ji, I know you must > be feeling very satisfied, and so are some of us assigned the job of > resurface. There is increasingly so little to resurface. > > -- > 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/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<indiantreepix%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To post to this group, send email to indiantree...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
