Kovács I. Endre szerk.: Rovartani Közlemények (Folia Entomologica Hungarica 16/22-30. Budapest, 1963)

to establish a financial basis and ample resources for the Society. However, the unprincipled action hit back with a vengeance. Of the 630 new members joining the Society in this period, there remained but a single active one to date. The majority of the new members entered the Society not for the sake of, or in the interest of, entomology, but by pure chance, and it is no wonder that, in view of such a constituency, the Society collapsed like a house of cards after World War I. It needed five years to reorganize the ranks and start society life afresh in 1922. Economic and financial crises one öfter the other had shattered the very bases of the Society, its wealth amassed by so much zeal became valueless and fell victim of speculations; and the personal differences which broke out and clashed together had almost finished with it in 1933. All these difficulties had mainly organizative causes. This era was characterized by mere stagnation. The revival of the Society, after so many years of purely existing, happened in 1937. In the reorganization of the membership and the new Society,there was a radical break with the past. The target was no more a foundation for on in itself,but the cooperation for a common cause of all amateurs and professional research workers, and that the Hungarian Entomological Society be the central organ of Hungarian entomology. In how far this aim was realized is shown by the fact that there still are today,among the members who joined the Society between 1937 and 1944 /about 140/, nearly 50 active members: the backbone of the Society also at present. A most important role in the rebirth of the Society must be ascribed to the person of Dr. E. DUDICH

, the professor appointed to the leading post in the Zoological Institute of the University. He succeeded to make an end of the unseemly vfrangle between the University and the Museum, and he was able to raise an entomologist generation to call the aims of the Society its very own.