Plant Collectors In Kashmir
Ralph R Stewart who
push-biked into Kashmir more than a century earlier details the contributions that Western experts made to Kashmir taxonomy
A view of Botanical Garden in Srinagar
I must be Rogers McVaugh’s oldest pupil. I did not know him until I was 70 and about to retire from Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, where I had worked from 1911 until 1960, except for occasional furloughs in this country. When Rogers took charge of the angiosperm herbarium in 1960, following the death of ‘Uncle’ Harley Bartlett, his distinguished predecessor, he found that he had a legacy of some 150,000 specimens in bales and bundles in various storerooms. Some of these specimens had been in storage for fifty years. As about 30,000 of these specimens were from India, McVaugh looked around to find someone with a knowledge of Indian plants. A friend told him that I was retiring from Gordon College and he wrote to inquire if I were available. As I did no
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A man applies the final touches to a sculpture made from Himalayan pink rock salt on the outskirts of Lahore. Reuters
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce on Thursday announced that it will register Himalayan pink salt extracted from the Salt Range which extends along the south of the Potohar Plateau and the north of the Jhelum River as Geographical Indications (GI).
The decision was taken in a meeting with the Intellectual Property Organisation (IPO) Pakistan chaired by Commerce Adviser Razak Dawood. IPO Chairman Mujeeb Ahmed Khan also attended the meeting.
An official announcement said that during the meeting, GI registration of products from various regions of Pakistan was discussed. The move aims to curb unauthorised use of Pakistan’s GI by other countries.
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce on Thursday announced that it will register Himalayan pink salt extracted from the Salt Range which extends along the south of the Potohar Plateau and the north of the Jhelum River as Geographical Indications (GI). The decision was taken in a meeting with the Intellectual Property Organisation (IPO) Pakistan chaired by Commerce Adviser.