Gergely Pál: Az Akadémia Levéltára a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Könyvtárának Kézirattárában (A MTAK kiadványai 9. Budapest, 1958)

II. Miscellancous papers: a) C'oncepts of the corresponclence of the president (1831—39) b) Documents of funds, extracts, lists etc. c) Copics of ncwspupcr articles concerning tlio Academy (1830—44. 2 volumes.) d) Reports by tho mcmbers about tbc products of the country printing-officos (1831—35.) (The copyright-copy ordor was based on those reports.) e) Competition-essays and works offored for publication (1830—48). (Tho former arc registored by titles, being code-named.) III. Registers, casli-books, reports oj funds etc. are of groat importance in the surveving tho documents. Registers of the ycars 1859—1949 arc complcte (with exception of the volumes 1880—85). The lost registers of the ycars before 1858 had been substituted by new ones, or ratlier the registers begun in 1940 liave been completed. Indices were found from 1891 —1949 so the lost index of about 30 000 documents of the first sixty ycars of the Academy had to be substituted by new ones. IV. Correspondencc It eonsists of letters written by the president, tho secretary, (secretary-gencral), the secretary of the sections, the treasurer ; of letters and biographical notes of the members, oritiques ; thousands of petitions, memorials etc. filéd in 350 boxes. Somé 400 batches of papers contain reecipts of the members, accounts of the clerks, copyists, cash-clerks, servants, tradesmen and merchants ; plans and documents concerning the building of the Academy, the so-callcd fund-reports etc. The most precious from the point of view of their content are the oritiques of the works to be published, or of competition essais, more than thousand letters of the members containing autobiographical details. Among the letters wo find the writings of cminent foreign members : Bunsen, Macaulay, Mommsen, Gladstone, Quetelet, Boissier, Thierry, Virehow, Palaczky, Liebig, Levasseur, Renan, Roscher, Schuchardt, W. üstwald, Hilbert, Demidoff etc. Among the lettem of the secretary those of tho secretary generál János Arany are of greatest value : his autographic letters exceed the number of 4100, the number of records of meetings written by him is 339, (many of them more than 16—20 pages), and about 500 of his assignments were found. Those precious documents are now at the readers' disposal. Even whilc the arrangement took placc tliey were available for them. So members of the Academy, professors aswellasthe younger generation of scholars frequently made use of the archives, most important sources of the history of the Hungárián Academy of Sciences. 11