Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)

Culture and the National Excavation Committee having joined the project, in the course of one year, with the situation discussed at various authority levels in December, 1966, and January and April, 1967. As a result of the systematic increase, 7000 further skeletons could be deposited and preserved in the county museums. If the more than 7000 skeletons collected by the Anthropological Institute of the University at Szeged by the end of 1970 are also taken into account, we may state that during the quarter of a century the osteological remains of about 25.000 individuals originating from excavations in Hungary were deposited and are now preserved in our museums. It should also be mentioned that prior to 1966,the availability of technical assistance caring for the osteological finds arriving in the Anthropological Department represented a gave problem. Until that time, the tasks of conservation could be performed only by temporary assistants or by,calling on the work of the scientific staff

.Beginning with January

,1966,the Department disposes of a special laboratory and technician. This afforded the possibility of inventorying, within two years, under S. Wenger'

s direction, the' osteological material accumulated previously. It is worthy of note that during the last five years the skeletons of more than 6.000 individuals have been cleared and the restoration of the osteological remains of more than 1.000 individuals effected in the laboratory, allowing the contiguous publication of the various series by the scientific staff. The construction of the storage facilities of the Department

,financed by the Ministry by more than half a million Forints in the second half of the sixties, was of fundamental importance. Essential work was done by our research workers in the popularization of results obtained in anthropology. In the past twenty-five years two central exhibitions have been organized on the Origin of Man. The first was opened in 1955 (Boros,1956), but it was annihilated in 1956. The second Central Anthropological Exhibition done by the scientific staff under the direction of J. Nemeskéri, and beginning with I960, merits special mention. For the exhibition, titled "The Origin of Man and Pre-