Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 74. (Budapest 1982)

P. Komáromy, Zs.: In memoriam Dr. Erzsébet Kol (1897-1980)

"Dr. Entz Géza" memorial leaf of Hungarian Limnological Society, in 1956 and in 1977 orders, awarded to her by the Board of Education. The main fields of her scientific work were kryobiology and hydrobiology. She worked with algae of various waters: Soda lakes, hot springs and arthesian wells of the Great Hungarian Plain, and the largest lake in Hungary, Balaton. She carried out kryobiological research in different localities of the world. In Europe: various parts of Hungary, in the Carpathians (High Tatra, South and East Carpathians), Norway, Switzerland, in the Alps, Etna, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, Swedish Lapland, Spitzbergen, Finland. In North America: Colorado, Yellowstone Park, Montana, Mt. Rainier, Rocky Mountains, Alaska (Mt. McKinley, Mts. Wrangell, Mt. Chuga, Columbia glacier, Juneau region), Columbia, Greenland. In South America: Patagonia. On the Southern hemisphere: New Zealand, Antarctic (Balleny Islands, Signy Island, Haswel Island, South Orkney Islands). She collected on most of the listed places but she received samples from members of various scientific expeditions, too (e.g. Antarctic, Greenland). She had published over thirty algological papers by 1936 when she was offered the opportunity of going on a collecting trip to North America. During the subsequent years (1937-1944) she presented a series of hydrobiological publications on the snow algae of Alaska, the green snow of Yellowstone Park and about the cryovegetation of the northern and southern hemispheres. Beside these, she carried hydrobiological research on Lake Balaton. Between 1944 and 1948 she concentrated on the algal flora of Transylvania. After that she worked, continuously and simultaneously, on materials of snow-, water- and soil-samples originating from various regions of the world (the Alps, Mts. Bükk, Norway, Rocky Mountains, High Tatra, Antarctic, New Zealand, Greece etc.). The culmination of her life-work was her book entitled Kryobiologie (215 pp., with 68 figures and 16 tables), published in Stuttgart in 1968. She was characterized by multi-directed and systematic collecting work which was coupled with punctual and conscientious scientific work. It is being certified by the "Algotheca" (deposited in the Bot. Dept. of the Hung. Nat. Hist. Museum, Budapest) which represents her collection since 1949 and contains about 6200 fixed samples, and a collection of microphotographs (a total of 678) which contains the members of cryovegetation of coloured snow of Alaska, Greenland and the Yellowstone Park. The unialgal culture collection, accomplished by her, must be also mentioned, which came through a lot of trial. This collection was established on influence of Prof. R. CHODAT, in Dept. Gen Bot. at Szeged University. In 1940 it contained about 100 different strains and it was a respected collection in that time. There is another living algal collection (crude samples) which contains samples collected by her from different pit-bogs, from Bakony Mountains and other places. The rich flowering plant collection, collected by her in Alaska, was identified by E. GOMBOCZ, and he described a new genus and two new species after her (Acroschizocarpus kolianus gen. n. et sp. n. and Claytonia koliana sp. n.). Ill scientific publications (among them two books), 60 new algal species described by her and collections in the Museum, document the life-work of an active and science-loving researcher. LIST OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS OF E. KOL 1925: Előmunkálatok a Nagy Magyar Alföld moszatflórájához. I. Szeged és környéke. (Vorarbeiten zur Kenntnis der Algenflora des Ungarischen Nagy Alföld I. Szeged und Umgebung.) — Folia crypt., 1: 65-68. 1926 : Algák a Lomnici-csúcs tetejéről (2634 m). (Über die Algen auf dem Gipfel der Lomnitzer Spitze, 2634 m.) - Folia crypt., 1: 221-226. 1927: Adatok a tátrai Desmidiaceák kocsonya-kiválasztással történő helyváltoztatáshoz. (Über