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Societe Europeenne D' Arachnologie ~ ~ Le mot du président 4 The word of the President 5 Report of the General Meeting POLAND -1996 6 Report of the General Meeting SCOTLAND - 1997 9 Mémoire de Maitrise 1 D.E.A. 13 Bookshop 1 NEWS 15 SOCIETY & COLLOQUIUMS 23 Information 27 Annonce 31 SOCIETE EUROPEENNE Membershlp form 33 // / /11111 \\\\\ \\ \ ~"\"'~ Subscription 35 D' ARACHNOLOGIE ~ ~ "" '" 1 111 Questionnaire 37 1 / / // 11\\\ \\\\\\ no10 1998 Réalisation et diffusion Société européenne d'Arachnologie / Christine Rollard M.N.H.N. laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes) 61, rue de Buffon 75005 Paris SOCIETE EUROPEENNE D'ARACHNOLOGIE Couverture Jacques Rebière M.N.H.N. laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes) 61, rue de Buffon 75005 Paris 4 5 Le mot du Président The word of the President La recherche scientifique s'effectue de plus en plus dans un .esprit de ~ompé(jlti<:>n Scientific research is carried OUL more and more in an interdisciplinary competitive s~irit . .. é ar une lutle de toUS les instants pour les crédJts ou pour es emp OIS. marked by a 11ght of every moment for the appropriations or employment. ln a context of cmis, lOterdlsclphnrure marq~ PIla dotaùon globale à la recherche a tendance à s'amenuiser, whereas the total equipmenL with research tends to be reduced, the strongest sectors are Dans un contexte de cnse, a ors q~n~iennent mais les IIIS faibles peuvent avoir des craintes, 3 1 maintained, but weakes! can have fears, sornetimes for [heir existence even. A discipline, \Vhen les secteurs les plus .forts se n2 U discipline I~rsqu'elle est pratiquée par une grande it is praclised by a great quanliLy of researchers lays out of more than voice to de fend il hand parfois pour leur eXlstc~ce merne. ne v ' ou~ la défendre et en conséquence d'un lobby and in consequence of a more important lobby to promo te il. Predominances between quan~ité de chercheu), dl~~~~~~fl~~~do~~~nces cnrre disciplines indiquent, plus un étal disciplines indicate, rather a relative state of their forces, in means and of numbers of plus Important !cour a pr t' nombre de chercheurs qu'un reflêt de leurs excellences rcsearchers, that a refleclion of their respective excellence as one would like someLÎmes to make it believe. Th,is logical effect is still amplified by the perverse effec of administrative systems ~~~~~~~:~;n~~e~~ ~02~f~i*~:t~~t{f!r~Oc=~'C;~ieJ!~~'~~i7:~Jo~~:~cf~~~e:i~:r~p~~ like that of the use of the impact factors of revie\Vs to evaluate research or the researchers. ~e: ~~~~l;:~~v~~~:: les recherches ou les chercheurs. En réalité, ~I~ .indicesî e~~~~~~ ~~ Actually, these indices, because of their mode of calculation, indicate less the importance of leur mode de calcul indiquent moins l'importance des travaux pu I~S que e \Vork published than the number of researchers who are interested in il. AlI the scientific chercheurs qui s'y intéressent. Toutes les disciplines scienti~ques sont uules p~ur la recherc~e disciplines are useful for the search for tomorrow and, today, nobody is able to dctermine work de demain et aujourd'hui personne n'est capable de déterrruner les travaux qUJ apporteront le which will bring the mos! developments in the future. ln spi te of that, the current contexl tends plus de développements d~s l'avenir. Malgré cela, le context.e a.ct~cl a te~dancefià \lrov~quer a to cause tbe disappearance of the IVcakest re5earch sectors. The disciplines which profit from dis aritien des secteurs de recherche les plus faibles. Les dISCiplines qUI ?éné IClent e celle tbis figbt 1V0uld be placed bener than the otherS to denounce the effecls of them, bUlthey do not lutre seraient mieux placées que les autres pour en dénoncer .les eFfets. m~ls ~lIes ne semblent seem to \Vant to invest itself in such an action. The evolution of our scientific systems thus pas vouloir s'investir dans une telle action. L'év?lulion ~e nos syste~e~ sClenLJfiques ressemble resembles, more and more, \Vith lhat of our economic systems: it encourages cach one to donc, de plus en plus, à celle de nos systè~~S economlque~ : elle IOclte chacun à consommer consume today thc maximum of wbat il can seizc, wilhout worrying about ihe others or the aujourd'hui le maximum de ce qu'i l peut saISir, sans se soucier des aurres ou des conséquences consequences for tomorrow. pour demain. l' " 't as To give an opinion on this state could perhaps relieve us but would not have much Porter un jugement sur cet état pourrait peut.êt ~e ~ous sou ager ~als n aurai p influence on the phenomenon. lt is on the other hand cssential to resist and not to be let beaucoup d'influence sur le phénomène. Il est par contre mdlspensa?le . d~ résls~er et ,de ne pa.s submerge by the system. Indeed, in this context, the biological disciplines which, like the se laisser submerger par le système. En effet, dans ce contexte, les dlsclphnes biologiques qUI, arachnology, cannot count thal on a smaLl number of researchers have very to fear current comme l'arachnologie, ne peuvent compter que sur un pelit n0rn.,?r~ d~ ch~rcheurs ont tout à evolution. Many signaIs already indicated us that we are more vulnerable than others: loss of craindre de l'évolution aCluelle. De Ilombrcult signaux nO\ls ont de]'à IOdique que nous s0m.:nes mcans. no replacement of researchers, weak recnlirrnent of young people ... But no combat is plu vulnérables que d'autres : perte de moyens, non remplac~m~nt de chercheurs, faJble lost as much as it is nOI completed yet and, unlil proof of the opposite, the arachnology is still recrutement de jeunes, ... Mais aucun com~at n'cst perdu t ~ nt quolin est. p.as encor~ achevé e,t, quite alive; il is even sometimes possible to note ... that it sings (at Icast with the meals of the jusqu'à preuve du co ntrai~e, I ~ arachnologle est encorc bien vIvante , il est meme pariols conferences). Wc are very few, but our vitality is strong, oC many enquiring young people ar possible de constater ... qu'elle chante (au moins au repas des colloques). Nous sommes peu arachnologists amators joincd our ro\Vs these last years, we have even applied asseLS which can nombreux mais norre vitalité est forte, de nombreux jeu~es chercheurs o~ arachnologm;s appear very useful in medicine or pharmacology (venoms) or in environment (biodiversity, amaleurs ont rejoint nos rangs ces dernières années, nous dls~osons .même d atout~ app~iq~es diagnoses of mediums ... ). ln spite of that, il will be useflll for us to equip us with effective qui peuvcnt sc rêvélc! ll"ès ulih.:s en méd l!cinc ou phan n.acologle vem,ns) ou el cnvllulIll,cm"lIt w.:apOIlS for betler ddending us, it is the l'ole of lhc European Arac hnologi~~d l SO(;Îcty 10 eJISUI'c (biodiversité diagnostics de milieux .... ). Malgré cela, Il nous sera uule de nous dOler d ,~CS coordination of il. efficaces poJr mieux nouS défendre, c'est le rôle de la Société Européenne d'Arachnolog.te den Our Society currently plays a part in the sponsorship oC the European conferences and assurer la coordination, , é publishes a useful secretary's I)ewslelter, but these aclions should be able to develop. Before Notre Société joue actuellement un rôlc dans le parralOage. d~s coll.oques europ ens et devoting us to a defense more administrative (maintains mcans and rescarchcrs, contributes to édi te un utile bulletin de liaison, mai ces actions devraient pOUVOJf s amplifier. Avant ~e n?us the international co-operation), it scems essential to us to increase our scientific aclions. For that consacrer à une défense plus adm!nistrative (mainli~n ~es moyens e~ des chercheurs, alde,a la IVe ad vance proposais in lWO directions: coopération internationa(e ... ), Il nous semble lndlspen able d au~meO[er nos aCHons 1 - in the field of the cartography of the European species, already old project which il would scientifiques, Pour cela nous avançons des propositions dans deux d.'rtlcl1~ms : . ,. finally be necessary to make succeed. 1 _ dans le domaine de la cartographie des espèces européennes, projet déjà ancien qu il faudrait 2· in conneclion \Vith a Review, old project also, but whose possible forms and the objectives enfin faire aboutir. 'bl 1 were never weil defined. 2 . à propos d'un Revue, ancien projet également, mais dont les formes pOSSI es et es objectif n'ont jamais été bien définis. This is to our council to make proposaIs in these two directions and to the general assembly to discuss them. C'est à notre bureau de faire des propositions dans ces deux secteurs et à l'assemblée générale de les discuter. Alain CANARD Alain CANARD 6 7 Report of the General Meeting - List of Mail addresses to send to the secretary; POLAND - 1996 - Home page/Internet (expected for the end of 1997): request for the agreement of the members in this bulletin- - ~he song of the Arachnologists (ve~sion with music planned for EdlOburgh) ... The 16th European Colloquium of Arachnology, organized by Marek Zabka, was held at the Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna 5) Report of the treasurer (Christine Rollardl (W.S.R.-P.) in Siedlce (Poland). Seventy arachnologists from over twenty Post office accounL countries (especially from the East) were present. Previous credit 7.507,74 FF Ecology took a large part du ring the first two days. Thursday began Receipts with taxonomy and evolution, finishing with the poster session.
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