Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 100. (Budapest 2008)

Matskási, I. ; Vásárhelyi, T.: Celebrating the 100th volume of the Hungarian Natural History Museum’s yearbook

impossible. The processing of Sieber s Chilean andXdntus'Japanese collections is still incomplete. This latter remark suggests that the National Museum kept some biological collections even from other continents at that time. This is the time when the processing of SALAMON JÁNOS PETÉNYl's (a scientist who died young) bequest starts. As he originally wrote his studies in German, the original article featured the in Revue, while the Hungarian translation became incorporated in the main text block. ÁGOST KANITZ publishes the list of plant species collected by the Austrian-Hungarian Far Eastern expedition ( 1867-1868) in volume 2. The same volume reports of the arrival of LAJOS LÓCZY's first geographical collection in Budapest. LÓCZY was a member of the Far Eastern collecting expedition organised by BÉLA SZÉCHENYI. An additional piece of news is that EDE HACKEE participates in the occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina as a soldier of the Austrian-Hungarian Army, but not even the war could prevent him from collecting botanical specimens. On pages 199-210 HERMAN initiates a polemic that has been the talk of scientific circles ever since. He lashes out on Archbishop LAJOS HAYNALD, the renowned and erudite botanist of the period, who at a session of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prioritised the "respectable, ancient doctrines" of faith over conclusions drawn through the induction of scientific evidence. "No doctrine becomes venerable merely for it being ancient, but for it being true instead" - retorts the editor who never obtained a university degree, and who despite having been threatened to get ousted from the Museum for his article stood his ground, after all. As a first follower of Darwinism in Hungary, he was the one to advocate the theory's truth, as well. No small wonder that the journal had an ambition of influencing the entire scope of Hungarian biology of the time. Volume 7 (1883) is the first to publish GYULA MADARÁSZA painting of a bird species - which is followed by a number of other paintings (e.g. Fig. 3). The illustration is of fairly high quality in both scientific and artistic terms. Volume 9, Plate 3 (Fig. 4) depicts the illustrations of MÓRICZ STAUB's proceedings: they - as the very first photo illustrations - were made by GYÖRGY KLÖSZ, the outstanding photographer of the period.