Re: VMS -- Botanical Identifications

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dana,

>      I do not know if you are aware that earlier this year,

Ooops - I read the VMS archives from 1992 forward, but *blush* omitted 
early 2001. :-(  Have now put that right (reminder to self - buy new pair 
of glasses to replace worn out pair).

> after seeing the
> wonderful match for Viola tricolor in f09v, I was quite excited at the
> prospects that there were most likely other real world matches that could be
> made for the botanical drawings in the VMS. I therefore set about trying to
> see whether or not I could make additional identifications. Here is a list of
> what was identified.

Fantastic work! The next logical step is, much as I said in my previous 
email, to build up lists of contemporaneous names for these to act as 
possible cribs - ie, map contextual botany to actual cryptography.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....