Dr. Fűköh Levente szerk.: Malakológiai Tájékoztató 3. (Eger, 1983.)

Varga András: A Mátra Múzeum (Gyöngyös) Mollusca gyűjteménye

The Mollusc Collection of the Mátra Museum (Gyöngyös) The collection of the natural scientific material has begun together with he opening of the Mátra Museum (1957), and has the gained more and more importance as the objective and the personal circumstances were improving. In 1964 the institution was already specialised on natural sciences. In 1979 the museum moved into a separate building (Géczi 1982). It has attained leading role among the Hungarian country museums with its rich material (vertebrate palaeonthological, entomological, malacological, fish, amphibian, reptile, brid, mammal and osteological collections, herbarium etc.). Its inventory contains about one million faunistic and floristic items. The mollusc collection was set up in 1970. That was the time when I joined the museum and handed my collection (from the Cserhát, Mátra and the Bükk region) of appr. 1500 items over to the museum. During the past 13 years this quantity has grown 17 times larger. The collection was estimated to consist of 25 500 items, 80— 85% of which comes from Hungary, 15—20% mainly from Europe and partly from other continents. The marie material counts approximately 1000 items. The collection was enriched, beside our own collections (cca 60%) by purchase and exchange. As the country museums cannot iniciate expeditions outside the counry oficially, a comparative collection can be set up and enriched only through purchase and exchange. (Most importan purchase and exchange: Gyula Kovács, dr. (Békéscsaba) 300—350 items, Károly Bába, dr. (Szeged) 300 items, Imre Loksa, dr. (Budapest) 300 items, László Merényi, dr. (Budapest) 200 items, Gábor Nagy — student — (Gyöngyös) 200 items, István Pintér, dr. (Keszthely) 6900 items, László Pintér (Budapest) 2000— 2200 items, János Podani, dr. (Budapest) 400 items).