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O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R team, and to take charge to add such data both to the Column and to “PhytoKaryon”. 2005. The Commission prepared its “Mediterranean chromosome number reports” edited by G. Kamari, C. Blanché and F. Garbari as a standing column in Flora Mediterranea. This year the column contained contributions on 42 taxa. 2006. The Commission prepared its “Mediterranean chromosome number reports” edited by G. Kamari, C. Blanché and F. Garbari as a standing column in Flora Mediterranea. This year the column contained contributions on 160 taxa. 2007. The Commission met in Pisa. For the seventeenth successive year, the Commission had prepared its “Mediterranean chromosome number reports”, edited by G. Kamari, C. Blanché and F. Garbari, as a standing column in Flora Mediterranea. This year the column contained contributions with 233 records, bringing the total number to 1,644. As, the tendency, increasingly, is to produce molecular systematic rather than chromosome data, it remains desirable (as already suggested in Beogradthree years before) to include reference to such data under the Committee’s responsibility. The best way was a new standing column in “Flora Mediterranea”, with critically evaluated “Molecular Systematic Data”, under separate editorship: C. Oberprieler, S. Yakovlev and M. Crespo were to be asked.. The database “PhytoKaryon” remains operational. Thanks to funds from Patras University, the data inputting continues. The database now holds more than 47,000 records. New spinoffs are being designed. The database is temporarily offline but will be accessible again soon. For more information on this Commission’s activities, contact: G. Kamari, E-mail: mailto:kamari@upatras.gr HERBARIUM MEDITERRANEUM COMMISSION Chair: W. Greuter, Berlin Secretary: F. M. Raimondo, Palermo Members: G. Kamari, Patras J. M. Iriondo, Madrid S. Jury, Reading B. Valdés, Sevilla G. Venturella, Palermo The Foundation "pro Herbario Mediterraneo" has an Administrative Council as its governing body, in which OPTIMA is represented by its Secretary, a member resident in Palermo, and the Chairman of the Scientific Committee. The scientific activities to which funds from the Foundation are affected are controlled by a Scientific Committee of five, four of them designated by OPTIMA and one by the Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche of Palermo University. Since 2004 the Herbarium Mediterraneum Foundation has upheld its offer to accept herbarium specimens in exchange for OPTIMA fees and/or the purchase of Bocconea volumes. Each herbarium specimen was accepted as equivalent to 1.67 Swiss Francs; currently, the equivalent is 1 €. Between 2004 and 2007, the Herbarium in this way received a total of 1508 herbarium specimens. In 2005, OPTIMA member S. W. Breckle donated his private herbarium of over 4,000 specimens to the Herbarium Mediterraneum, because his home base, the Herbarium in Bielefeld (BIEL) ceased to exist upon his retirement. In 2007 the Herbarium Mediterraneum received in bequest the Herbarium of Girolamo Giardina, consisting of about 10,000 specimens mainly collected in Sicily. The gift, early in 2009 of the Herbarium and Botanical Library of Werner Greuter is mentioned elsewhere in these pages. Further donations and bequests are welcome! Research visits of OPTIMA members to the Herbarium Mediterraneum are welcome. As the budget of the Foundation has been halved due to the drop in interest rates (6% to 16 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 May 2009
O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R O P T I M A N E W S L E T T E R 3%), external sources have to be tapped to secure the publication of Bocconea volumes. Among those recently published are the Proceedings of the XI OPTIMA Meeting in Belgrade, Bocconea 22, funded by subscription. Two research grants were funded by the Herbarium Mediterraneum. The recipients of these grants, Svetlana Bančeva from Bulgaria and Mariam Aghababyan from France, presented the results of their studies in the form of posters at OPTIMA Meetings. After several meetings with architects and with the assistance of the present Commission, the Foundation “Pro Herbario Mediterraneo” submitted an outline project to the Government of the Regione Siciliana for restoring the building that is to house the Herbarium Mediterraneum. At the request of the President of the Regione Siciliana, this project, estimated at 12.5 M€, has been placed on a list of realisations that is to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Government participates in the funding of these works, which are expected to be completed by the end of 2011. Unfortunately there are still some problems with one of the former owners of the building, although a solution is in sight. WEB COMMISSION Chair: G. Venturella, Palermo Secretary: G. Domina, Palermo Members: C. Blanché, Barcelona P. Bareka, Patras J. M. Iriondo, Madrid S. Onofri, Viterbo R. M. Ros, Murcia N. Surano, Palermo E. Vitek, Wien 2004-2006. This Commission was established to promote and expedite the co-ordinated presence of OPTIMA on the Internet by using WWW access facilities. At a Meeting held at the XI OPTIMA Meeting in Belgrade, the Commission discussed a protocol for maintaining OPTIMA’s Web page up to date. It was envisaged that the maintenance of the OPTIMA Web page be transferred to Palermo, where Natale Surano and Giuseppe Bazan could take care of it. Information was to be provided and updated by Commission Secretaries and the OPTIMA Secretariat. The Commission met again in Pisa in 2007. Transfer of the Web pages of OPTIMA to Palermo was finally decided there and has since been implemented. The contents were transferred from the server in Berlin-Dahlem to a commercial server in Italy. The OPTIMA Web pages now contain a News column where relevant information can be added if and when available, to be consolidated from time to time (perhaps annually) into a formal OPTIMA Newsletter. Not only that Newsletter but also individual news items of import will be distributed electronically, to all interested OPTIMA members at the time when they are placed on the OPTIMA Web page. Free distribution of hard copy will henceforth be limited to Institutional Members. Other members who so wish can request it against payment of 5 €. Commission Secretaries have been instructed to constantly update their respective Web pages, irrespective of whether they are physically held on a Web server at their home base or, rather, at Palermo. COMMISSION FOR THE DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE ON MEDITERRANEAN PLANTS Secretary: U. Plitmann, Jerusalem Members: V. H. Heywood, Reading J. M. Iriondo, Madrid J. Mathez, Montpellier O. Vasić, Beograd The Commission for the Diffusion of Knowledge on Mediterranean Plants convened at the XI OPTIMA Meeting in Belgrade, in 2004, and again at the subsequent Meeting in Pisa (2007). on both May 2009 OPTIMA Newsletter No. 38 17
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