Szirácsik Éva (szerk.): Neograd 2009 - A Nógrád Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 33. (Salgótarján, 2010)

Hír János: Mozaikok a természettudományos muzeologia Nógrád megyei történetéből (a teljesség igénye nélkül)

NEOGRAD 2009 NOGRAD MEGYEL

MÚZEUMOK ÉVKÖNYVÉ XXXIII.

of the Natural History Museology in the Nógrád District. (The author is not intended to be exhaustive.)

By: János Hír

Introduction

In the Organization of the Nógrád County Museums the Natural History Museology was reestablished is 1984. On the occasion of the 25 years anniversary we give a short abstract of our scientific and educational activity, the memory of the predecessors and the future prospects.

Predecessors in the nineteenth century

Ferenc Kubinyi (1796 -1874) gave the first description of the geological interrests of the Nógrád Region in Hungarian language, eg. the great fossil trunk of Ipoly- tamóc, some fossil localities and the minerals of the district.

János Salamon Petényi (1799 -1855) He was the first Hungarian professional natural history museologist. Unfortunately the majority of his works was not printed.

The activity of Béla Lipthay (1892 -1974)

He was the first natural history museologist in the Nógrád County Museums. His main scientific activity was the entomology. His butterfly collection consisted of 60 000 items. He collected fossil plants from Ipolytarnóc and Nógrádszakál. This plant fossil material (about 1200 items) was the basis of the Natural History Collection of the Nógrád County Museums.

Scientific activity in the Municipal Museum of Pásztó Paleontological excavations in the caves of the Bükk Mountains

This project had been initiated by the author when he was student. During the eighties and the nineties we excavated the Pongor Cave, the Peskő Cave, the Kőrös -bérc Cave and the Lök -völgyi Cave.

Paleontological investigations of loess -like sediments in Northern Hungary

The field activity taken place in the Sajó Valley near Putnok , in the opencast lignite mine at Visonta and in the Zagyva Valley near Nagybátony and Csengerháza.

On the grounds of the scientific activity on Quaternary cave infills and the loess -like sediments the author submitted his thesis for the CsC degree in 1990.

Systematic study on Late Neogene and Quaternary cricetids

The most important results of this activity:

the description of two new species an a new subspecies: Cncetinus beremenden- sis Hír, 1994, Cncetinus jánossyi Hír, 1996, Cricetus runtonensis solymarensis Hír, 1997. a new biochronology of the Late Neogene, Quaternary hamsters in the Car242