Wow, great. Congratulations Sir. On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM, jmgarg1 <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats to Prof. Manilal. > Let us hope we have many more such Indians in coming future. > > On 14 May 2012 22:28, KP Rajesh <drkpraj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All >> This is to share the joy of the greatest honour bestowed upon a Botanist! >> Prof. KS Manilal was recently honoured with the “Officer of the >> Order >> of Orange-Nassau” award (Dutch: Orde van Oranje-Nassau), of the >> Netherlands. He is the first Asian and botanist selected for this >> highest honour of the Netherlands. The Order is a chivalry order open >> to "everyone who have earned special merits for society". These are >> people who deserve appreciation and recognition from society for the >> special way in which they have carried out their activities. >> Prof. K S Manilal was nominated for this honour for his commendable >> contributions on the monumental book Hortus Malabaricus published by >> Hendrik van Rheede during 1678-1693 from Amsterdam. He translated this >> 12 volume Latin book to English and Malayalam, which took more than 30 >> years. >> The honour was conferred on Prof. Manilal at a formal gathering >> held >> at the Vasco da Gama hall of Taj Gate Way Hotel, Calicut on 1st May >> 2012 (the very next day after the National Day of the Netherlands), by >> the Consul General in Mumbai of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Ms. >> Marijke A. van Drunen Littel. >> The meeting was inaugurated by the Minister of the Government of >> Kerala Dr. M.K.Muneer and addressed by senior academics such as Prof. >> Dr. C.K. Ramachandran (Professor Emeritus, Modern Medicine, Calicut >> Medical College), Prof. Dr. M.G.S. Narayanan (Director, Centre for >> Heritage Studies, Kerala Government, Cochin & former Secretary, Indian >> Council of Historical Research) and Dr. Indira Balachandran (Director, >> Centre for Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants Research and Indigenous >> Medicine, Kottakkal). >> To mark the occasion a new showy Arundina orchid was named as A. >> manilaliana by Dr. C. Sathish Kumar, noted orchidologist and a student >> colleague of Prof. Manilal. The function was attended by a good >> gathering of Prof. Manilal's friends who appreciate this unique >> intangible heritage of Hortus Malabaricus shared by the Netherlands >> and India. >> >> Video Link >> http://youtu.be/BMwAAWRRpWI >> >> >> News coverage >> http://www.mathrubhumi.com/english/story.php?id=123212 >> >> http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/article3369010.ece?textsize=small&test=2 >> >> Some useful links: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Orange-Nassau >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._S._Manilal >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus_Malabaricus >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_van_Rheede >> >> email: manila...@yahoo.co.uk >> >> Let us congratulate Prof. Manilal >> >> KP Rajesh >> > > > > -- > 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 1860 members & > 1,15,000 messages on 30/4/12) 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'. > > -- Muthu Karthick, N Care Earth Trust #15, second main road, Thillai ganga nagar, Chennai - 600 061 Mob: 0091 96268 33911 www.careearthtrust.org
