Szabadfalvi József: Írások Herman Ottóról és a Herman Ottó Múzeumról (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 25. Miskolc, 1987)

Fauna of Hungary" in three volumes. He sent his first main work to Lajos Kossuth living in exile that started their intimate and mutually respectful friendship. He also took part in the struggle against phylloxera destroying vine plantations in those days. He became a fellow researcher of the Zoological Department of the Hungarian National Museum and regularly published his articles in the Sunday Paper and in other papers in the capital. In 1885 he married Kamilla Borosnyai an outside correspondent of the children's paper "My Papaer"; she wrote tales and children's poems. On the national exhibition in 1885 he presents a remarkable fishing collection. In 1837 he finished his big monograph on fishing that turned his attention on ethnography. He had a study tour over the Arctic Circle in Norway in 1888. His experiences on trip were published on 580 pages with the title "About the Northern Birds' Mountains Region" in 1893. In 1891 he organized the second international ornithological congress, then in 1896 he arranged the ethnographical exhibition on the Millenium exhibition series. He became an MP for Szeged and then for Miskolc. He organized and directed the world's first Ornithological Institute until he died. He edited several scientific periodicals. He died in Budapest in 1914, and according to his last will, in 1963 his grave was transferred to the cemetery of Hámor now belonging to Miskolc. Ottó Herman's public and scientific activity are witnessed by more than 1100 studies and articles. His interest was versatile; that is why he was deservedly called "polyhistor". The main stages and resulets of his scientific activity can be rounded up as follows: Between 1876 and 1879 his monograph "Spider Fauna of Hungary" appeared in three volumes; his significant monograph "Book on Hungarian Fishery" was published in 1887 and a year later "Short Summary of Fishery" came out. His main ornithological works are the following: The Elements of Passage of Birds in Hungary (1895), About the Benefits and Harm of Birds (1901), this latter was also published in German in 1903. At his initiative the regular annual commemoration began in 1906 which was the Day of Birds and Trees. He got more involved in archeology in the last decades of the 19th century. It was in 1893 in Miskolc when he reported in German and Hungarian on two stone tools found on János Bársony's house site (near our museum) saying that those were the prehistoric man's tools. His report was followed by international disputes for long decades. The main value of his discovery is that it started prehistory research in Hungary, in wake 208