Petercsák Tivadar – Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 44. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2008)
Misóczki Lajos: Turisztikai és természetvédelemi törekvések a Mátravidéken a XIX-XX. század fordulójától 1950-ig
MATELKOVITS Sándor - SZTERÉNYI József szerk. 1897 Az 1896. évi ezredéves kiállítás eredménye. Mezőgazdaság, állattenyésztés, vízépítés, erdészet, gazdasági gépipar. Budapest MOLNÁR József 1964 Csomor Kálmán polgármester szerepe Gyöngyös gazdasági és társadalmi fejlődésében = Tanulmányok Gyöngyös város történetéből. Múzeumi füzetek 7. Budapest POSEWITZ Tivadar 1898 A Magyarországi Kárpát Egyesület története 1873-1898. Igló SELMECZI KOVÁCS Attila 1984 Vízimalmok és molnárok a Mátraalján = HAVASS Y Péter - KECSKÉS Péter szerk.: Tanulmányok Gyöngyösről (650 év)., 343-369. Miskolc VARGA Sándor 1988 A Gyöngyösi Alapítványi Kórház története. Kézirat. Gyöngyös Lajos Misóczki Environmental Protection and Tourism Initiatives in the Mátra Region from the turn of the 20th Century to 1950 The Mátra Branch (MB) of the Hungarian Carpathian Association (HCA) was founded in 1887 with the intention of promoting and popularizing outdoor pursuits and tourism in Gyöngyös and the Mátra Region. The MB Yearbook published in 1887 was evidence of the instant success of their endeavours. The launching of their journal, entitled The Mátra, on 7 t h August 1888, helped to spread the ideas they were wishing to disseminate. That same year saw the appearance of the first ever Mátra tourist guide, the Mátra Guidebook. The MB was not only active in the social, public and sporting life of Gyöngyös, the Mátra and indeed Heves County as a whole, it was also the first body to bring all those activities in the Mátra Region in the fields of environmental protection and outdoor pursuits under one roof. At the meeting held at Bene (Mátrafüred) on 26 t h June 1890, which the MB organized in conjunction with the Heves County Economic Association and the Heves County DoctorPharmacist Society, the delegates coming from what were then the fourteen counties of Northern Hungary discussed the following topics: The State of Tourism-HeathEnvironmental Protection in the Mátra; Protecting the Environment and the Landscape; Economic Issues; The HCA branches' possible role in environmental protection. The effectiveness of the associations' activities can be seen quite clearly in the reports, reviews published on an annual basis until 1914, and every five years up until 1945, and again in 1950 when only four counties contributed. 246
