Dr. T. Tóth szerk.: Studia historico-anthropologica (Anthropologia Hungarica 10. Budapest, 1971)
has systematically analysed the diagnostic significance of the various morphological characteristics, with recourse to his own and the data published by numerous authors from Europe and Asia. Attempts have also been made for the anthropological verification of the origin of the Conquest Hungarians in the Scythian and Sarmatian Periods (Tóth, 1968a, b, 1969, 1970c). The same author analysed regularly, beginning with 1965, the variability in the brain weight of Homo, by using the data contained in the archives of the Medical University »Budapest , and a county hospital (Kecskemét), referring to more than 6.000 males and females. A part of this work has already been published (Tóth, 1965). With respect to the great quantity of these data, they represent a important contributions to the regional aspects of the species-unity of mankind. Beginning with I965, problems on general methodology came to the foreground. In May, 1966, a special conference in the Department discussed the scientific - systematic position of anthropology. We have decided, in essence, that though anthropology is closely connected, by the investigation of the osteological legacy of the various socio-historical periods,with certain humanities (archeology, ethnography, historyography ), it still belongs to the system of natural history sciences, since it studies, as a biological discipline, Homo, representing the highest evolutional plane of the universal living world. It goes without saying that, at the recent phase of complex investigations, anthropology (inner circle of Pig. 1.) is closely connected also with the auxiliary natural history sciences(Pig. 1.). This is the reason why we deemed necessary the synchronous cultivation of the main research themes outlined above. Ever since the formation of the Development, self-instruction in our field of science was constitutionally supported. The medium for a long time consisted of our departmental conferences; since I960, however, a new approach, in the form of a comprehensive study circle of the staff, stimulates the widening of scientific experience and methodology level, as illustrable by a list of the following lectures and discussions:
