Illustrations in Watson's Angiosperm Families

[Mike Dallwitz]

                                                             26 September 1995

> From: Don Thomas <dthomas at uwindsor.ca>
>
> Re the Watson and Dallwitz Families of Flowering plants. The graphics
> files are splendid, but unlabelled, so that one has to open each file to
> see what it contains! Surely there should be a binomial associated with
> each gif file?

The software has provision for labelling the illustrations when used in
INTKEY, and it will soon be possible to transfer this information to the HTML
descriptions. However, preparing the labels would be a substantial task, as
the names would have to be checked for current validity (most of the
illustrations are 80-140 years old) and kept up to date. For the moment,
Leslie Watson is giving higher priority to improving the family descriptions
themselves.

Mike Dallwitz                                  Email md at ento.csiro.au
CSIRO Division of Entomology                   Fax +61 6 246 4000
GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia     Phone +61 6 246 4075