Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 6. (Budapest 1955)

Boros, I.: The paleontological exhibition of the Hungarian National Museum - Museum of Natural History

a) A geological age-chart and geological chronology ; b) the systematical survey ot the plant and animal kingdoms ; c) the uncertain fossils of the archeozoic era, formations indicating organic origin (Archeozoic and Proterozoic Eras); d) the organic fossils of the Algonkian. — Illustrative material : pictures, photographs, charts. The general characterization and discussion of the Palaeozoic. B) Cambrian (2,80 m case) : a) General characterization and discussion; b) the distribution of oceans and continents, climatic conditions; c) characteristic rocks; d) ancient Brachypoda ; e) Trilobite fossils; /) a scene of Trilobite life, their individual development, their relations during descent, their role in age determination. — Illustrative material: rocks, fossils, maps, photographs, drawings, pictures (the same material is successively used, respectively to the several periods). C) Silurian (2,80 m case) : a), b), c) as before; d) orogenesis; e) the lirst land plants : primeval shrubs and ancient ferns ; f) the characteristic fauna of the Silurian sea: Graptoliths, their stratigraphical significance, sea lilies, Eurypterids and Céphalopodes ; g) the appearance of fishlike vertebrates ; It) the fossils of the first land animals ; i) the plaster models of agnathous lishes. D) Devonian (2,80 m case) : a), b), c) as belore ; the spreading of the land plants ; e) Brachypods, Cephalopods, Echinoderms ; f) Placoderms ; g) a marine picture of the Devonian ; h) the Devonian in Hungary ; i) the evolution of the Amphibia. E) Carboniferous (2,80 m case) : a),b), c) as before; d) orogenesis; e) coal iormation ; f) the flora of the Carbonilerous ; g) the characteristical invertebrate iauna of the Carboniferous ; It) the Carboniferous in Hungary; i) the acme of Amphibians ; j) the model of the ancient amphibian Diplovertebron. F) Permian (2,80 m case) : a), b), c) as belore ; d) The Permian formations ol the Soviet Union, and its ancient reptiles ; e) the formation of salt deposits ; f) fossils of primeval vertebrates ; g) the evolution of the jaws, from the amphibians to the mammals ; It) the family tree of the primeval reptiles ; i) the Permian in Hungary ; j) models of the reptiles Dimetrodon and Pareiasau- rus (Plate XIII.). The general characterization and discussion of the Mesozoic. G ) Triassic (5,5 m case) : a), b), c), as before; d) Alpine and Hungarian Triassic ; e) its flora ; f) the subkingdom of the invertebrate animals, the acme of shell-bearing cephalopods; g) the appearance BLUEPRINT OF THE EXHIBITION