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[Michael Heads]

Jim,
 
The only problem with the (excellent) virtual herbarium site is that there are no names - unless you know exactly what species you are looking for it's not made at all clear that you need to use the site in conjunction with another site, the (excellent) Australian plant names site, with all the synonymy etc. I asked several Australian botanists how the system worked (they didn't know) before I figured it out.  If you go in through the ANBG site it's all obvious, so that's the address I plan on citing!
      
Michael    

Wellington, New Zealand.

My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0

--- On Mon, 5/11/09, Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] (no subject)
To: michael.heads at yahoo.com
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 7:10 PM


Hi Michael - the maps on the ANBG site are actually the 'Australia's
Virtual Herbarium', a collaborative project of theCouncil of Heads of
Australasian Herbaria (CHAH).

jim

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM,  <michael.heads at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I think TROPICOS is fantastic, I use it all the time. The obvious improvement though would be to have it connected with databases of other big herbaria. This means you need a working list but this shouldn't be publicised as a definitive or official list. The focus shouldn't be on the list but on making the databases (a) available and (b) integrated so that, for example, a single map can be produced including specimens from the different collections (cf. the Australian National Botanic Gardens site).
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> Michael Heads
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> Wellington, New Zealand.
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> My papers on biogeography are at: http://tiny.cc/RiUE0
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