SURAJIT and if you please lets include Satish and Pankaj in this conversation:
poor mr Linnaeus, i am not talking about him, neither the mistake/problem of ENGLISH spelling of proper names his problem, nor could he have started them... its old English lexicon and use of alphabets... lets not reduce every problem to him or any one person its a widespread, widely used, widely re-created spelling thing... or may be another european language usage has problem using w for v or vice versa as we see in calcutta... mr. Linnaeus, he was a swede living in the 1700s, Dr Leonard Rauwolf was a german (( Leonard Rouwolf is this spelling is in english alphabet as we write it in modern times... Leonard was alive during 1500s and on frontipiece of his own diaries during herbal explorations he writes his own name as Leonarti Rauwol.....with last ff seems to have disappeared.. and french botanist Mr Plumier in 1600s named a genus Rauvolfia (written now a days as :: genus Rauvolfia Plum. ex L . and MR Plumier published it in 1700s or the 18th century ( I remember Mr Plumier because of Plumeria or the Kath champa that we all love so much, notice the plumeria named after PLUMIER is spelled differently... to correctly name it it should be PLUMIERIA with 2 i s ) so there is no rhyme or reason so far in the language as we see it three centuries later... usage of alphabets and transliteration across continents and countries and between latin, german, french and swedish customary usage of those times and since it was often written by hand and copied by different hands... spelling errors crept in often... ask any teacher in Linguistics and Palaeogrphy or paleography and they will give long explanation.... very interesting stuff. just like I find a or ka written in palm leaf manuscripts many different ways over the centuries... they are by different persons with their own vagaries of good // bad handwriting habits... have fun deciphering these... better yet lets worry about the herbal potential and not the spelling Usha di On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 6:37 AM, surajit koley < surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good morning Usha Di > > Long time ago i read a a few lines about Alfred Nobel stating that he was > afraid of mathematics in his childhood and that's why he didn't have any > Nobel prize in Mathematics! There was another explanation too! > > Don't know if Linnaeus had same experience with the 'W' or not! > > Regards, > > surajit > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:28 AM, ushadi Micromini < > microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Satish and Surajit... >> resolved? not really... >> >> or yes, may be ha ha ... >> >> but there is *NO V *in this spelling or two of Dr * Leonhard Rauwolf >> (also spelled >> Rauwolff* name... >> >> that was the original question, was not it? >> Usha di >> === >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:36 PM, surajit koley < >> surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Thank you once again Satish Sir. The mystery behind the names is >>> resolved to the finest level. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Surajit >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Surajit ji >>>> We had a discussion earlier on this issue. Dear Pankaj kumar ji had >>>> answered this query. >>>> I am copy pasting what he had written in the post. >>>> >>>> * >>>> Pankaj Kumar sahanipan...@gmail.com via googlegroups.com >>>> 11/2/10 >>>> >>>> to indiantreepix >>>> Just for correction. I realized that the accepted spelling is >>>> Rauvolfia L. and not Rauwolfia L. >>>> WHY? >>>> Because it was named by Linnaeus like that although the name of person >>>> on which the name of taxa was based was Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled >>>> Rauwolff) [(Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 – September 15, >>>> 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and >>>> traveller]. >>>> >>>> Rauvolfia Plum. ex L. Sp. Pl. 1: 208. 1753 >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> *On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM, surajit koley < >>>> surajitnotavaila...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Sir / Madam, >>>> > >>>> > An elaborate search in the net tells me that the accepted scientific >>>> name of this species would be Rauvolfia serpentina. >>>> > >>>> > I wonder where from the name Rauwolfia serpentina came, as can be >>>> seen in many old edition of text books, and also in - >>>> http://kbd.kew.org/kbd/detailedresult.do?id=152609 , yet didn't find >>>> any mention in http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-176968 ? >>>> > >>>> > Species : Rauvolfia serpentina (L.) Benth. ex Kurz, ; For. Fl. Br. >>>> Burma 2: 171 (1877). >>>> > Habit & Habitat : herb, plant height 2 feet avg., wild & cultivated >>>> > Date : 25-07-2009 & 27-07-2009 >>>> > Place : Garalgacha (Hooghly) >>>> > ID help : >>>> http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sarpagandha.html >>>> > >>>> > Thank you & Regards, >>>> > >>>> > Surajit Koley >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr Satish Phadke >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> > -- Usha di ===========
