Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 100. (Budapest 2008)

Matskási, I. ; Vásárhelyi, T.: Celebrating the 100th volume of the Hungarian Natural History Museum’s yearbook

The Editor-Founder bids farewell to the readers in volume 10 by expressing his satisfaction - among others - with the high typographic and graphic quality as well as the excellent content that really took their effect: "The journal has managed to draw the attention of foreign countries to the world of Hungarian science". With volume 10 published, the achievements made up to then are consolidated in a separate volume. The bibliographical data of the ten volumes are contained in the Repertory and the Table of Contents is broken out by authors. OTTÓ HERMAN, the Editor-in-Chief had the highest number of articles (30) to his name, to be followed by SÁNDOR SCHMIDT, VIKTOR JANKA, JÁNOS FRIVALDSZKY and GÉZA HORVÁTH. Chapter 3 involves the Thematic Index and the Alphabetical List, Chapter 4 enlists the geographical areas (right from Anatolia, Borneo, Brazil, Asia Minor and the Far East through Zsolna in today's Slovakia) whose museum collections the authors used as their source. Back then the editorial staff reported of seventy places they had a relationship of exchange with throughout Europe, North and South America. Volume 25 ( 1902) makes mention of a total of 189 exchange institutions in every continent, which meant a new chapter in the yearbook's history, actually. The yearbook of the Hungarian Natural History Museum The name of the journal has changed more than once. For being far too hard for foreigners to remember, the name of Természetrajzi Füzetek (Natural History Booklets) gave way to Annales that was published by the Hungarian Natural History Museum, being an integral part of the National Museum between 1903 and 1963. No sooner than 1963 did it become an independent entity. The first volume of the Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (1903) was edited by GÉZA HORVÁTH, who could pride himself with having the opportunity of working together with OTTÓ HERMAN even. Here is what he writes in his editorial introduction: "Now that this volume marks the beginning of a new series of our journal under a new title, we wish to emphasise that regardless of this title change, the journal's direction, mission, and set-up will remain the same. By virtue of its calling, our journal will continue to regard as its primary task to promote the