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IMA Council meeting
The Council Meeting will be held in Cambridge, during the meeting "Frontiers in Mineral Sciences", on Monday 25, from 13pm to 17pm, in Seminar Room 1, in the Fitzwillian College.
The agenda is as follow : 1. Opening and welcome
2. Approval of the Agenda
3. Administrative matters
Approval of Minutes of the Council Meetings in Kobe, Japan
4. Executive committee's reports
President's report
Secretary report
Communication Officer report
Treasurer report
5. Society news
Adhesion of the Slovenia group of mineralogists
6 The medal Committee
7 The RRUFF project
8. Commission and Working Group evolution
a) report on the activity of Comm./WG
b) designation of chairs of IMA Comm./WG
c) designation of a correspondent within the council for IMA Comm/WG
9. Future meetings
a) 2008 Goldschmidt Conference in Vancouver
2008 - 33rd IGC in Oslo, Norway (5-14 August)
b) 2010 - 20th IMA General Meeting in Budapest (August)
c) 2014 General Meeting
d) other meetings
10. Strategic plan for IMA
a) Comm.WG publication and IMA publication: in Elements
b) Databases
c) The outreach committee
d) Appointment and term of office of future Presidents
11. Place and date of the next council meeting
A Second council meeting in Cambridge?
12. Closure of the meeting.
Invited
- Peter Ulmer, President of EMU and Herta Effenberger, Secretary of EMU
- Ernst Burke, chairman of CNMMN
- A National Representative from a small mineralogical society
- Tamas Weiszburg instead of Ekkehart Tillmanns for the 2010 General Meeting projectList of documents provided
IMA publication in Elements
David Vaughan, Chair of the Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry :
"New IMA Working group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry - Up and Running" (Vol 3, N2)
Commission
and Working group news
Commission of New Minerals Nomenclature and Classification
A. Manecki is the new member from the Mineralogical Society of Poland designed in the Commission of New Minerals Nomenclature and Classification.
Working Group on Environmental Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Chair : David J. Vaughan; Vice-chair: Tom Sato; Secretary: john L. Jambor
Mineralogical
society news
Mineralogical Society of India
(MSI) - The e-mail address of the National representative has changed : e-mail address of C. Srikantappa.
Mineralogical Society of Poland : A. Manecki is designed within
the Commission of New Minerals Nomenclature and Classification. e-mail address of A. Maciej Manecki, secretary of the Mineralogical society of Poland.
An updated list of Swedish delegates  has been provided by Ulf halenius on the 19th of June.
IMA statistics
Acces statistics
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IMA archives
Documents related to the creation and development of IMA are displayed in the IMA archives for the year 1956 to 1958. The main archives are available below :
Summer 1956: the British Mineralogical Society has sent letters to various countries to create an international organization: see the memorandum
November 1st, 1956 : Decision during the meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America to create a committee to investigate the possibility of forming an International Union of Mineralogy.
December 18, 1956 : Letter of M.L. Burger to 8 mineralogists to form a Committee to consider the possibility of forming an International Union of Mineralogy
February 8, 1957: Memorandum by N.F.M. Henry send to M.L. Burger and to 3 corresponding members on the Committee on the type of international organization, with a copy to C. Guillemin
February 26, 1957: Guillemin's answer to N.M.F. Henry
March 8, 1957: M.J. Buerger's letter to the "Committee to Investigate the Possibility of Establishing an International Union of Mineralogy". L.J. Buerger proposed to create "The International Mineralogical Association" (IMA) unstead of a Union, and to organize an informal meeting to discuss general matters concerned with the IMA, during the Congress of the International Union of Crystallography in Montreal July 10.
The Buerger document also contains :
- the Committee member opinion on the creation of an International organization devoted to Mineralogy (Claringbull, Gruner, Donnay, Henry, Guillemin, Pabst, Winkler),
- and an invitation to send National delegates to Montreal to consider the formation of an International Mineralogical Association
April 18, 1947: Project by L.J. Buerger to elect a constitutional Committee during the Montreal Congress which could work for the establishment of the eventuel International Mineralogical Association. Such a committee could come to an existence in April 1958 during a meeting in Southern Europe.
May 10, 1957: Memorandum of N.F.M. Henry relative to the "Committee to Investigate the Possibility of Establishing an International Union of Mineralogy" on the way to control publication of new minerals names. The memorandun was send to C. Guillemin (14 May 1957).
July 16, 1957: Minutes of the Montreal meeting prepared by A. Pabst (secretary pro tem)
- A (provisional) International Mineralogical Association was set up whose members are individual mineralogical societies
- IMA interim officers were elected by the delegates to draft a constitution
- Chairman: G.F. Claringbull
- Vice-chairman: F. Laves
- Secretary-Treasurer: J.L. Amoros
- Councillors: L.G. Berry, C. Guillemin, M. Fornaseri, F. Wickman, Grigoriev, M.J. Buerger
- The following commisisons were created on
- new species
- preservation and accessibility of type material
- nomenclature
- abstracts
- the continued publication and revision of the System of Mineralogy
- Museum
- There was the need for a program committee, a committee on excursions and a committee on committees.
- The first formal meeting of the IMA would be held in Madrid, April 1958. Delagates would vote on the constitution.
October 2, 1957: Report of the "Committee to Investigate the Possibility of Establishing an International Union of Mineralogy" to the Mineralogical Society of America. This reports sums up the development of the successive committee designed to work for the creation of IMA.
List of Chairmen and Secretaries of Commissions
Beginning of April 1958: proposal for the conduct of business in Madrid
Photograph of participants to the first IMA meeting, in Madrid, in April 1958
April 1958: Draft statutes and Bye-laws of the International Mineralogical Association
August 6, 1958: R.L. Parker letter to C. Guillemin with the report on the Foundation of the International Mineralogical Association and the Statutes and Bye-laws of the IMA
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June 2007