Thank you Rene for you comments. I have been aware that past efforts were
made in the identification of the plants but have had only limited insight into
what was determined. I have wanted to review Mrs. Voynich's notes on this
subject but imagine that it will take a visit on my part to Beinecke which
I have actually considering doing at some point. In the meantime, I will
continue to offer potential matches as time permits.
Regards,
Dana Scott
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:20
AM
Subject: Re: VMs: Folio f9r
Dear all,
it is worth mentioning at this point that
major
efforts have been spent on plant identifications
in the past, of
which the results are not easily
available. Here, 'easily' just means "in
electronic
form, on the internet". That is: they are not.
These
analyses were performed by at least two
botanists, both from the Catholic
University in
Washington, and collected (and possibly extended)
by Mrs.
Voynich. They are contained in notebooks
kept in the Beinecke library, with
the VMs.
Petersen included lots of these also on his
hand transcription.
There is, finally, an
unpublished (I think) manuscript by O'Neill
(one
of the two Botanists - famous for his
Sunflower identification), which is
also
referred to by Petersen.
The notebooks are freely available for
perusal,
but copying the contents is certainly a non-
trivial task.
Cheers, Rene
--- DANA SCOTT <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank
you Dennis for your kind compliments and
> encouragement. It is very
much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Dana
>
----- Original Message -----
> From: Dennis
> To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 2:46
PM
> Subject: Re: VMs: Folio f9r
>
>
> David Bianchi wrote:
> >
> > Does someone have found any other "real
plants
> or herbs" similarities in
> > addition to
the already hypothetical
> "sunflower", "red pepper" and so on?
>
> Dana Scott has done by far the best work ever
done
> on
> plant identifications. Pam
Wilson' page shows a
> lot
> of his ID's:
>
>
>
http://members.efortress.com/wilsonk/vmspictures.html
>
> He's done some more and continues to work on
them.
>
>
> Dennis
>
>
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