Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 3. (Budapest 1953)
Boros, I.: The exhibitions of the Hungarian National Museum Museum of Natural History
rocks ; Untransported sediments ; Mechanical sediments ; Chemical sediments ; The most important sedimentary rocks ; The origin of metamorphic rocks ; The process of metamorphosis ; The most important metamorphic rocks. The tematical arrangement of the fifth room is the following : The distribution of elements in the known crust ; Ruling elements, trace elements ; The enrichment of various elements in different places of the crust, mines ; Iron and its ores ; The ores of refining metals ; Color metals ; The ores of metalloides ; Noble metals and their ores ; Light metals and their ores ; The minerals of radioactive elements ; The minerals of rare earth elements ; Non-metallic ores ; The precious stones ; Utilisable rocks. These two rooms will, however, be given to public attendance in the next year only. 5. The Reliquies of Hungarian Mineralogy, Petrography and Mining The great significance of science history becomes increasingly evident not only generally but in the case of special sciences too. The consideration is gaining rapid acknowledgement that, besides its cultur-historical relations, it is essentially important with regard to the recognization of laws regulating the development of the life of sciences. And so, one will gradually realize the fact that science itself is also a social phenomenon, a fact usually never before taken into account. In accordance with this realization, we have exhibited such material as we dispose of in connection with this theme, in a smaller room adjoining those of the mineralogical exhibition. Tt has not the dimensions it ought to have to sufficiently illustrate all problems in this regard, but, as a starting point, it displays still in suitable quantities some parts of them under the following titles : 1. Reliquies of mining ; 2. Our famous mining and mineralogical books ; 3. Hungarian mineralogists and their reliquies ; 4—5. Hungarian minerals, minerals denominated by Hungarian scientists, or in the honour of Hungarian scientist; Hungarian mineral ; collecting localities, etc. ; 6. Mineralogical exhibitions in the past and present. 6. The Historical Reliquies of Hungarian Zoology On the ground of above considerations, another exhibition was opened to public attendance in 1949 in a small room, displaying the reliquies of Hungarian zoology. Our material was arranged in the following order : 1. Zoological literature and the development of the graphic representation of animals ; 2. The development of zoological papers and periodicals ; 3. Exhibits & Curios of the XIX century ; 4. Animals stuffed in the old fashioned method, show cases (deer, Persian lion, hummingbirds) ; 5. Old microscopes and their use in Hungary ; 6. The exhibition rooms of the National Museum of Hungary in the past (prints). 7. The Darwin Exhibition We have opened this exhibition as our token of the great English naturalist, on the 70. year of his death, 19 April 1952. It was placed in the aula of the Hungarian National Museumfor two months, and then permanently exhibited in a smaller pavilion of the Zoo in Budapest to perpetuate Darwin's memory and to help to clarify his ideas which modern biology proves by positive evidence but which some people still doubt or wish to forget. D a r w i n's bust, a fine creation for this occasion of our sculptresses, G. G e r 1 ó c z y and H. Istvánffy, stands in the centre of the room. In the 20 Természettudományi Évkönyv 1952 — 9926 305
