Technikatörténeti szemle 19. (1992)
KÖNYVISMERTETÉS - Papers of the First „MINERALKONTOR” International Conference on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Industry (Veszprém, 12-16 August, 1991)
3) members residing outside (of Berlin), 4) participants. Honorary members who should not outnumber the figure of 30, should be elected at a majority of 2/3, and completed in the yearly General Assembly. They have all the rights of the members without their duties. The one who wants to be admitted to the Association must have himself recommended by two members. After information about this in a meeting, secret voting occurs by balls in the next one' (13). These conditions were changed in 1875. Thereafter there were: „1. honorary members 2. ordinary members 3. extraordinary members Only foreigners can be elected honorary members, their number should not surpass 20... The one who desires to join the Association, can be admitted first only as extraordinary member. Extraordinary members, having completed 3 years as extraordinary members of the Association, join the rows of ordinary members on December 31 of the third year" (14). The association enjoyed great popularity worldwide. The number of the members rose, from the initial 106, to nearly 50000 by the end of the period treated (15). The number of Hungarians among them amounted in the 19th century only to 1%, in the 20th century sometimes only to 0,5% (16). This does not mean a decrease in the number of Hungarian members, the volume of the association as a whole increased that much (Table). It is interesting to note how the social compositioni so-to-say, of the Hungarian members has changed. In the 1870-es to the 90-es 70% of them read chemistry in some way or the other (as university professor, or at colleges or secondary schools), here and there a chemist in a research institute can also be found among the membes, however, the remaining 30% consisted of pharmacists or owners of pharmacies. Thus, for instance, in 1881 we can find among the Hungarian members of the association the following who taught or did research work in chemistry: Balló, Dr. M., teacher of chemistry at the modern high-school, Pest Donáth, Dr. Julius, privat-docent, Baja, Hungary Fabinyi, Professor, Dr. Rudolf, Kolozsvár/Cluj (then Hungary) Hideg, Prof., Dr. K., secondary school, Arad (then Hungary) Jármay, Dr. Julius, Seminargass, Pest Liebermann, Dr. Leo, Professor at the Institute of Zootherapy, Budapest Nendtvich, Dr. C, Professor at the Joseph Polytechnicum, Budapest Ossikovszky, Dr. József, Professor at the University of Kolozsvár Steiner, Dr. A., Chemical Laboratory Leutschau, Hungary Than, Dr. C. v., Professor, Pest Ulrich, Dr. R., Professor at the College of Agriculture, Moson-Magyaróvár Wartha, Vince, Professor of Chemistry, Budapest. Beside them we can find pharmacists in the list (Gallik, Géza from Sátoralja-Újhely, Ger Julius from Nagymarton/Mattersdorf, Kodolány, Victor, from Gyulakeszi and Laufer, Ludwig from Kecskemét), there was but one expert from the