Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 5. (Budapest 1954)
Boros, I.: The new exhibitions of the Hungarian National Museum - Museum of Natural History
centres of origin of our cultivated plants; a chart in glass for the display of the origin of wheat with preparations of the respective wheat varieties. In similar display and exposition, we illustrate this theme by preparations, maps, drawings, paintings, seed samples, eventually wet or wax preparations and graphs, concerning rye, barley, oat, corn, potato, sugar beet, sunflower, tomato, paprika, rice, cotton, flax and hemp. Grapevine is introduced more exhaustively ; its origin, distribution, the past of its culture, and phyloxera, are illustrated in a special case. The themes : dessert grapes, Hungarian grape areas, and our most important grapevine soils, are demonstrated in three cases. The history of grape culture are shown by drawings of Roman murals, the map of Pannónia, and Roman wine jugs. Of phyloxera, preparations and drawings inform us. Dessert grapes are exhibited in wet preparations. The background of the theme : Hungarian wine-districts, is a map accentuating the famous wineyard areas with the wet preparations of the most characteristical grape varieties in the corresponding localities. The more significant grapevine soils are displayed by soil samples and characteristical photographs of the respective areas. In the same way, the most important Hungarian fruits are exhibited in 3 cases, with a special lying case giving information on lemons and oranges and the experimental results of their culture in our country. Main Theme III. In 6 standing and 13 lying cases : A. The formation of soil, physical-chemical crumbling, the component parts of the soil : organic and inorganic components, the effect of erosion on the soil, with defence and preventing measures, segments of Hungarian soil types, grass crop rotation = original soil samples, photographs, drawings, electronmicroscopic pictures ; original soil cuts under glass, laterally with the display of strata, with paintings above of the characteristical vegetation, climatical, geoponic and vegetational maps. B. The periods of postglacial times : the last glaciation, fir —birch period, hazel period, oak period, first and second beech periods = Landscapes of various ground colors on standing tables, with preparations of the characteristical plants of these periods between glass sheets upon thèse tables, maps of their present distribution, the enlarged picture of the characteristical pollen under convex glass lenses of the respective periods, photographs in the horizontal cases, etc., the pollen diagramms of the bottom sediments of the Balaton. Main Theme ÏV. In 11 standing and 14 lying cases: A. The origin and manifoldness of fungi, their color, life, reproduction •and dispersion. The family tree of fungi resembles that of the flowering plants : •on circular dials, with many photographs, paintings, small models, dry preparations, graphs. B. Of the history of fungi : the utilization of saccharomyces, fungi in the service of healing, the use of medicins yielded by fungi, fight against pathogenous fungi of our culture crops, the arborivorous fungi of the forests, the protection of industrial woods, fungi as food, mushroom culture. = The first theme
