Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)

3 8 Historical survey Figure 2.18. Two pages of ISTVÁN CHERNEL'S journal the background to his publications on bird protection: Means of Rational Bird Protection (CHERNÉL 1908) and with IZIDOR MÁDAY, the study Efforts at Bird Protection in Hungary (MÁDAY and CHERNÉL 19

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119 ISTVÁN CHERNÉL established the Natural History Department at the Vas County Museum (now the Savaria Museum) in Szombathely and served as its curator from 1908 to 1912.

120 The exhibition he laid out of the county's birds contained 200 specimens, most of them his own donations (Figure 2.21), displayed in 17 large cabinets and grouped according to their habitats and beneficial or harmful habits (Figure 2.22) (CSABA 1963b and 1964b). LAJOS MOLNÁR gave a 10 per cent discount on some very fine prepared specimens. The rest of the collection consisted of 23 prepared mammal specimens also donated by CHERNÉL, insects, shells and snails. In 1912, he managed to have two further cabinets made for the mammals, divided into two groups. By 1914, the collection contained 494 prepared animals specimens and 2463 plant specimens donated earlier by ANTAL WAISBECKER and VILMOS 119 SZEMERE, L. 1924. Néhai Chernél István rendelettervezete a madarak védelméről (Draft regulation on the protection of birds by ICh). Nimród 2:58-9. 120 S. PÁVEL, J. 1963. A szombathelyi Savaria Múzeum története (History of the Savaria Museum, Szombathely). Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője 1:293-312.