Re: Good News!!

["Janet Smith" <ypauls@sti.net>]

Robert, don't forget the 2,031 Bee Warburton digital photos I sent
you, plus the over 2000 I am working on of Paul Black's 30 years of
photos AND slide collections sitting to be worked on next:

Rosalie Figge
John Wright

that is another several thousand of historic irises.

Janet Smith



---- Original Message ----
From: robertpries@embarqmail.com
To: aisdiscuss@aisboard.org
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Good News!!
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 14:15:06 -0500 (EST)

>We have hit a new benchmark. The Iris Encyclopedia now has over
>40,000 cultivar pages. The Iris Register I am told has 65,000
>registered names and with unregistered, and botanical names included
>there should be no more than 80,000 names total, so we are somewhere
>between 50% and 60% of complete. It seems likely we will be up to
>that by this summer. 
>But we have approximately only 30,000 images. So you history
>detectives can help us find many images that are missing. It is a
>delight to see pages with 10 to 15 images.  So ultimately we could
>have over a million images. With now over 300 helpers it is my wish
>for the New Year that we can top this last year. Thanks again to
>everyone and have a great New Year.
>Please excuse my cross posting the good news.
>
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