Re: herbal tinctures

[Dana Scott <dfscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will do the best that I can in an attempt to identify these sprigs, but
please understand that it may be an order of magnitude more complex than
identifying whole plant drawings. We have already seen that fruits and flowers
might not be included in the drawings and that leaves may not match as
expected. I also have a tendency to go after whatever strikes my fancy at the
time. A single plant identification may easily take 8 hours to investigate.
With the sprigs I am thinking an investigation will last around 10-15 hours
each (total time), except in the cases where there is an obvious match to a
plant already identified at another location in the VMS. Just for your
information, I am not necessarily convinced that what look like jars are
actually a representation of jars. Another possibility may be that they are
dissected anatomical models of plants categorized by vascular bundles, etc.
Once the sprigs are identified, it will no doubt be much easier to determine
how they are grouped and classified. I will try to focus on completing the rows
in order, unless of course I see something in another row that I think I can
identify right away. Thank you for your patience. Any assistance will be
greatly appreciated. It may take a while.

Regards,
Dana Scott

John Grove wrote:

> Small clarifications to GC's comments...
>
> > Starting with page 89r
>
> You meant 88r1?
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 88v1:
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 89r1: (Although, it appears to me that there are two jars for the last
> paragraph, one in front of the other)
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 89r2: (so total jars for 89 r1/r2 foldout is possibly 8 jars with 7rows and
> 6 paras)
> > 4 jars    4 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs (odd
> > man out)
> Oddly, there is some rather distinctive spacing in the paragraphs down the
> right side (in the half page foldout that could be another paragraph on its
> own that just happens to line up with the rest of the text)
>
> 89v2:
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 89v1: (total for 89v foldout 5/5/5)
> > 2 jars    2 rows of plants    2 Paragraphs
>
> In the photostat we have two copies of page 89v1
> > 2 jars    2 rows of plants    2 Paragraphs
> >
>
> > Starting with 95r
> 99r?
> > 4 jars    4 rows of plants    4 Paragraphs
>
> 99v
> > 4 jars    4 rows of plants    4 Paragraphs
>
> 100r
> > 2 jars    2 rows of plants    2 Paragraphs
>
> 100v (Could be argued that there are 3 rows of plants)
> > 1 jar     1 set of plants     1 Paragraph
>
> 101r1/r2 must be combined and there are 3 jars (the bottom one follows a
> couple of plants,
> so the actual total for both pages is 3 jars/3 rows of plants/3
> paragraphs:first para only two lines of text)
> > 2 jars    2 sets of plants    2 Paragraphs
>
> 101v2/v1 combined as title spreads across bottom of page
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 102r1
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 102r2
> > 3 jars    3 rows of plants    3 Paragraphs
>
> 102v2
> > 2 jars    2 rows of plants    2 Paragraphs
>
> 102v1
> > 2 jars    2 rows of plants    2 Paragraphs
> >