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

S. Szigethy Anna: A Természettudományi Múzeum Mollusca Gyűjteménye

tétel. Gyűjteményünk jelentős része hazai és külföldi szakemberek által revideált. Mollusc Collection of the Natural History Museum The unvaluable mollusc collection of the Natural History Museum has perished during the conflagration in 1956. An immense material had been gathered not only from the Carpathians, Transylvania, the Balkans and he Adriatic region, but also from exotic labds (e. g. collection from New-Guinea by Lajos Bíró). This museum collection, with its hundreds of types provided the base for the research work of the greatest Hungarian malacologues, János Wagner, Mihály Rotarides, Lajos Soós. The loss of this collection can never be retrieved. Alter the perish museums in Hungary and in foreign countries, just like private collectors, offered material and technical literature, till, together with some purchase and donation, a basic collection was set up. The Hungarian material was based on collections by T. Gebhart, I. Pintér, Streda, Tolnai, Vásárhelyi. A systematic and regular collective field work was carried out between 1958 and 1961 aiming at the better knowledge of the home fauna. Later the degree of collection has decreased, the enrichment of the material is slight even in our days. The museum enlarged the collection set up from the inicial donations through exchange with museums and private collectors. A considerable part of the metarial was given by specialists of different branches of faunistics, who had taken them from their trips in Europe or the tropics. The Hungarian private collectors never failed to enrich the museum collection coming home from the collecting trips in Hungary or abroad. The present molluscan collection of about 37—40 000 items has been set up in the above ways. Five of the seven classes of the molluscs can be found in the collection, the Aplacophora and the Monoplacophora classes are missing. There are about 50 items of the Polyplacophorae,