Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 6. (Budapest 1955)

Boros, I.: The paleontological exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum - Museum of Natural History

of mammals; h) the interrelationship of the most primitive mammals; i) the distribution of the groups of vertebrate animals in the several geological periods ; j) the development of the skull from the fishes to the lemurs ; k) the models of the Nothosaurus and Plateosaurus. H) A Diorama of the Jurassic (10 m, in the wall opossite to the entry of the great hall). Life size models of the Stcgosaurus and Allosaurus. I) Jurassic (right side wall of the large hall, — 5 m case) : a

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) as before ; d) its flora ; e) the most important groups of invertebrate animals are the Céphalopodes (ammonites and bclemnites) and the Insects ; f) other fossils of the Jurassic sea ; g) bony fishes, the acme of reptiles, Ichthyosauri, Hying reptiles, ancient crocodiles ; h) the primeval bird ; i) the Jurassic in Hungary, — the formation of manganese, the coal deposits of Pécs ; j) the models of Brachiosaurus and Diplodocus. J) Cretaceous (5 m case) : a),b),c) as before ; d) orogenesis and volcanism ; e) the most characteristical representatives of the flora of the Cretaceous ; f) the invertebrate fossils of the Cretaceous sea ; g) the Dinosaurs, the proportions of the primeval reptiles ; h) the family tree of the reptiles ; i) the Cretaceous in Hungary, the formation of bauxite ; j) the models of Iguanodon and Triceratrops. The general characterization of the Cenozoic. K) Eocene (4 m case) : a)

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, c) as before ; d) the representatives of the flora of this period ; e) Nummulites ; f) the fossils of the Eocene in the coal deposits of the Transdanubium ; g) the spreading of the mammals, ancient mammalian types ; h) the Eocene faunas of Italy and Hungary ; i) the brown-coal deposits of the Eocene in Hungary ; j) the model of Uintatherium. L) Oligocène (4 m case) : a) ,b)

, c) ,d) as before; e) the further evolution of mammals, the family tree of primeval Carnivora ; f) ancient horse, the family tree of the Horse ; g) fish fossils and other fossils of the Eocene in Kjscell ; h) the Oligocène in Hungary ; i) the models of Brontotherium and Indricotherium. (Plate XIV). M) Miocene (4 m corner case, in two parts) : a), b), c), d) as before; e) the fossils of invertebrate animals of the Miocene sea; f) fishes of the Miocene, ancient mammals, hydrobiont mammals ; g) the great Apes ; h) the fauna of the Miocene sea in Hungary, the sweetening of the last primeval sea (Sarmatian) ; j) the fauna of the fresh waters ; k) volcanism; I) the Ipolytarnóc trunk with leafy impressions. N) Pliocene (in the smaller room, 3,80 m case) : a), b), c) as before; d) rocks; e) marine Pliocene (the collectings of L. Kossuth); f) the fossils of the Pannonian Lake in Hungary ; g) Pliocene mammals : antelopes, ancient rhinoceros and tapirs, Dinotherium, — the family tree of Proboscidea ; h) the development of the Pannonian in Hungary ; i) volcanism, the origin of oil ; j) the model of the Machairodus k) the left hind limb of Zygolophodon borsoni. 0) Pleistocene (3 m case) : a) Glaciation, the spreading of the glaciers, loess formation; b) the Pleistocene in Hungary : the cave faunas of the Prepleistocene (Gombaszög) and the later Pleistocene (mammals); c) sediments; d) phylogenesis, the family trees of the plant and animal kingdoms ; e) the reliefs of the Neanderthal and Crcmagnon Man ; f) the models of the Mammoth and the wooly Rhinoceros ; g) Pleistocene large mammals (Megaloceros giganteus,a specimen from Ireland; Ursus spelaeus, a specimen from Hungary; Mammoth skull, tusks, dorsal vertebra, os pelvis and os sacralis, from Hungarian localities; Rhinoceros antiquitatis skull, a specimen írom Hungary; the skull of Bison priscus, from the river Tisza; the skull of Bos primigenius, from the same river); Aepyornis maximus and its egg, from Madagascar and the various animal drawings of prehistoric man found in several caves, painted: at and on the 10 meters long wall of the smaller room left to the main entry to the exhibition ; h) in the middle of the room : the Neolithic camp of ancient man (from Ságvár), ina lying case.(Plate XV.) III. With regard to the execution of the plan, I have, first of all, to state that, concerning furnishings and the furniture of the exhibition, we had used wooden material hardly at all, — with the exception naturally of the tableau of the smaller room and the frames of the cases. The cases themselves had been made by the judicious use of plaster, ground slag, and jute fibres ; placing them close