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)

count on the Hungarian chemical industry or on chemical research work has ever appeared in the „Berichte" during the period considered (23). No book or journal has ever been sent during the above period from Hungary to the library of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft zu Berlin. One might think that the library could use German books only. However, this was not the case. They accepted willingly any work published on chemistry in any language and from any corner of the world. E. G., in December 1885, reports were given on the following books received: 1) Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1884, Vol. XVm. Sdyney, 1885 2) Zeitschrift fur Zuczkerindustrie in Böhmen (Journal of the Sugar Industry in Bohemia) Wol. 10, No. 2, Prague 3) Annali di chimica medico-farmaceutica e di farmacologia, No. 5, Milan (Annals of medical-pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacology) 4) Comité International Travaux et mémoires du bureau international poids et mesures. Tome IV, Paris, 1885. (International Committee. Works and papers of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures). 5) Daccomo, G.: Intorno aU'azione della luce sul jodoformio. (On the action or light on iodoform). 6) Genth, F. A.: Contribution to mineralogy 7) American Institute of Mining Engineers, (reprint) 8) Pawlowski, Bronislaw: Psosoby oceniania wartosci nafty, Warsawa, 1885 9) Bolton, H.: Index to the Literature of Uranium (24) Among these a book in Hungarian language would really not have looked out of place. This modesty of the chemists is the more peculiar as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences sent copies of its publications to all over the world as present or for exchange. Such consignment were sent, e. g., in 1895 only to Berlin to four institutions: 1) Königlich preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences) 2) Gesellschaft fur Erdkunge (Association of Geology) 3) Königlich presussisches Statistisches Bureau (Royal Prussian Bureau of Statistics) 6) Physikalisch-technische Reichsanstalt (Charlottenburg) (Imperial Institute of Physical Chemistry) (25). The organizers of the present conference have drawn a lesson from all this and have proudly presented all participants with their good TECTNKATÖRTÉNETI SZEMLE, hoping that ah pictures are interpretable in any language. Finally, the Hungarian members of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft zu Berlin, if they happened to be in Berlin, were entitled to participate in the meetings of the Association and use its library. Several of them made use of this possibility and reported on their experience in detail in the domestic chemical journals. Lajos Singer reported in 1904 in the Hungarian Chemical Journal under the title of ..Scientific news from Berlin"

. He writes: „Berlin might be rigthly the metropolis of Germany also with respect to chemistry as we might ask if there is another city of Germany where so many and so famous researchers of ah