Vig Károly: Zoological Research in Western Hungary. A history (Szombathely, 2003)
54 Historical survey Figure 2.33. ALADÁR VISNYA (1878-1959) can be described as the last polymath in Vas County. He founded the Kőszeg Museum of Local History and Knowledge of the Native Land, and in 1936, organized the natural-history research in the Kőszeg Hills appeared so far in three volumes (Figure 2.35). 148 Zoological examinations of the area were able to continue in 2000 with funding from the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development. The prime purpose of the zoological and botanical examinations was to provide scientific foundations for turning the Őrség Landscape Conservation Area into a national park. Similar exploratory work took place on the botanical and zoological assets of the planned Csörnöc Landscape Conservation Figure 2.34. The participants in the collecting trip of May 20-24, 1936 to the Kőszeg Hills, in a clearing near Stájerházak. From left to right: LÁSZLÓ MÓCZÁR, ÁRPÁD SOÓS, GYULA FÁBIÁN, ELEK WOJNÁROVICH, ZOLTÁN KASZAB, ENDRE DUDICH, ADORJÁN KESSELYÁK, JÓZSEF SZENTIVÁNY, ALFONZ IHAROS and JÁNOS BALOGH 148 VÍG, K. ed. 1995. Az Őrségi Tájvédelmi Körzet Természeti Képe I.— Natural History of the Őrség Landscape Conservation Area I. Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője (1992-5) 22/2:1-294; idem ed. 1996. Az Őrségi Tájvédelmi Körzet Természeti Képe II.— Natural History of the Őrség Landscape Conservation Area II. Ibid. 23/2:1-307; idem ed. 1997. Az Őrségi Tájvédelmi Körzet Természeti Képe III.— Natural History of the Őrség Landscape Conservation Area III. Ibid. 24/2:1-197.
