Re: AIS: Checklists--Biting the Bullet

From: "wmoores" <wmoores@watervalley.net>



On 12 Jun 99, at 16:49, Arnold Koekkoek, a scholar and a gentleman, wrote:



  However, I can't agree about the ease of getting used to the color-by-number-and-letter grids of the 1939 checklist.  I find it a great nuisance to use, and of very little help on many occasions, without considerable extra work.  To the occasional searcher, the grids are a frustrating 
interference in the quest for desirable information.  A most worthwhile updating project, in my view, would be re-publishing that checklist with the information translated into words anyone can understand at a glance without having to look up a color grid or memorize a color grid chart.  If the 
purpose of publishing the material is inform and let people know, then it ought to be in the peoples' regular parlance.  I know that to do this would take much time, the commodity of which nobody ever has enough, but I daresay there'd be many grateful people who would be much m

 Can you tell I've been frustrated by this a few times?  And, Anner, I still enjoy your writings!!

Arnold and others, we were talking about this very thing at our local 
iris society meeting today, i. e., the 1939 Checklist, indeed, is 
written in Greek for advanced Rhodes Scholars  or botanists on a 
secretive, non-lay undertaking.

Frustrating is a mild word to use in describing this dinosaur (the 
1939 Checklist). 1949, too.  You are not alone, my friend, and 
there are many in our camp.  It will only get worse when the 
teenybopper generation of today who utter such expressions as, 
"See what I am saying?" or "You know where I am coming from?" 
eventually discover irises in their golden years and attempt to make 
sense of this work.  I feel their pain!

	Walter Moores
	Enid Lake, MS  7/8 (hoping his healing fingers have typed and 
trimmed this message  appropriately) 



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