Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)

historic Man", M. Maian wrote the chapter on the earliest phases of evolution into Man (fossil primates). A. Thoma elaborated the Australopithecus stage and the evolution of human races. T. Tóth introduced the stages Archanthropus

, Paleoanthropus, and Neoanthropus; S. Wenger showed the processes involved in making paleolithic tools, while J. Nemeskéri elaborated the illustration of the postglacial prehistoric periods and a summary of demographic aspects. Gy. Dezső played a substantial role in the technical solutions of display and in the discussion of the scientific aspects of the explanatory text. A leader to the Exhibition was written by M. Maian, and published in German and English. The Exhibition was opened to the public on 25 October, 1962. It may be noted that heated discussions between members of the staff arose on several problems concerning the script (e.g. the position and role of the Paleoanthropus stage in the course of sapientation). By the application of modern exhibition technique, the satisfactory illustration of the evolution into Man was succesfully achieved - a factor in drawing 621.252 visitors during the las eight years. Home and foreign representatives of natural history sciences and protoarcheology have both acclaimed the merits of the Exhibition, The staff of the Department actively participated also in organizing the anthropological displays or themes of natural history exhibitions shown in county museums or constructed as travelling exhibitions. Beyond that, they gave popular lectures on the origin of Man and the great races of Man now extant to audiences of many thousands in various plants, factories, and institutions. By the tele communicative media (wireless, television), the auditorium became the whole country on the occasions of casting their lectures.The number of popular papers, written by staff members and published in natural history magazines, is also worthy of appreciation.