CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MYRIAPODOLOGIE [CIM]

International Society of Myriapododology and Onychophorology

Created in Paris in 1968, the CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE MYRIAPODOLOGIE (CIM) regroups myriapodologists of whole world. The permanent secretariat of the CIM is located in the "Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris: Laboratoire de Zoologie-Arthropodes". Its mission is to rapidly inform myriapodologists (and other zoologists and biologists) of works which are in progress or published in all the fields of myriapodology (Myriapoda & Onychophora), from the study of macromolecules to the study of ecosystems and landscape ecology.

Registration

For its functioning, the CIM receives from its members either an annual contribution of 100FF (US20$, Euros 16), or books and reprints destinated to set up a specialized library. This library is located in the "Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Laboratoire de Zoologie-Arthropodes".

Each year, on December, registered members of the CIM receive a questionnaire. This questionnaire asks each member to provide a list of papers published or in press during the year, as well as research work in progress or in project. It also asks for any informations of general interest to researchers whose work involves Myriapoda or Onychophora.
The questionnaires are returned by the end of February; the bibliographical and analytical bulletin with the directory is compiled from all the replies, which come from countries around the world. This bulletin is sent to every member in April-May.
Any member who does not reply to the questionnaire during several years or does not send money or reprints, is then immediatly removed from the list. This questionnaire is available on this site.

International Congresses

Apart from its wider role of providing information, the CIM helps to better coordinate some projects and also must ensure, as co-organizer, the regular holding of the international congresses of myriapodology which take place every three years:

1) 1968 (Paris, France)
2) 1972 (Manchester, UK)
3) 1975 (Hamburg, Germany)
4) 1978 (Gargnano, Italy)
5) 1981 (Radford, Virginia, U.S.A.)
6) 1984 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
7) 1987 (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
8) 1990 (Innsbruck, Austria)
9) 1993 (Paris, France)
10) 1996 (Copenhague, Denmark)
11) 1999 (Bialowieza, Poland) 11th Intern. Congress
12) 2002 (Petermaritzburg, South Africa)
13) 2005 (planned in Norway, Bergen)
14) 2008
15) 2011

The International Committee

The Board is assisted by an International Committee, including founding members of the CIM, organizers of international congresses and several members appointed by the plenary international sessions of the CIM. This committee is composed of:

Funding members:
J.M. DEMANGE (Paris, France) ,
J.P. MAURIES (Paris, France),
O. KRAUS (Hamburg, Germany)

Members and congress organizers:
J.G. BLOWER (Manchester, UK)
H. ENGHOFF (Copenhagen, Denmark)
J.J. GEOFFROY (Brunoy, France)
R.L. HOFFMAN (Radford, Virginia, U.S.A.)
C.A.W. JEEKEL (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
E. MEYER (Innsbruck, Austria)
A. MINELLI (Padova, Italy)
M. NGUYEN DUY - JACQUEMIN (Paris, France)
J. WYTWER (Warzawa, Poland)
M. HAMER (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)



For further information, please contact the CIM Secretariat

For further information, please contact the CIM secretariat
MNHN, Zoologie-Arthropodes, 61, rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France).
Tel. 00 33 1 40 79 35 82 Fax. 00 33 1 40 79 38 63 Email : <millicim@mnhn.fr>
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J.J. GEOFFROY, Secrétaire-Général : <geoffroy@mnhn.fr>
MNHN, Ecologie générale, 4, avenue du Petit Château, F-91800 BRUNOY (France).
Tel. 00 33 1 60 47 92 22. Fax. 00 33 1 60 46 57 19

Written by Jean-Jacques Geoffroy and the CIM-Secretariat. Copyright© 1999-2001, Centre International de Myriapodologie