International Mycological Institute
The International Mycological Institute was a non-profit organisation, based in
History
The Imperial Bureau of Mycology was established in 1920 as a centre for accumulating and disseminating information on
IMI provided an identification service for pathogenic fungi from 1921 onwards and in 1922 started publishing abstracts of research literature in the Review of Applied Mycology. An herbarium of fungal specimens was also established. The journal Index of Fungi, covering all new fungal names, began in 1940 and the Bibliography of Systematic Mycology in 1947. In 1943, the first edition of the standard reference work, the Dictionary of the Fungi was published. A culture collection of living fungi was initiated in 1947.[1]
In 1948, IMI changed its name to the Commonwealth Mycological Institute and in 1986 to the International Mycological Institute. In 1993, it was moved from Kew to Egham, Surrey,[1] and in 1998 it merged with the International Institute of Entomology, the International Institute of Biocontrol, and the International Institute of Parasitology to form CAB International.[2] In 2010, the former IMI herbarium was merged with that of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[3]
Directors
- Sir Edwin John Butler (1920–1935)
- Sydney Francis Ashby (1935–1939)
- Samuel Paul Wiltshire (1940–1956)
- John Collier Frederick Hopkins (1956–1964)
- Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1964–1968)
- Anthony Johnston (1968–1983)
- David Leslie Hawksworth (1983–1997)
References
- ^ ISBN 0-85198-886-5.
- ^ "Our History". CABI.org. Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
- ^ Press Release http://www.kew.org/about-kew/press-media/press-releases-kew/fungi-collection-reaches-1-million/ Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine