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Berinkey, L.: A populáció analízis kérdései 1-58. o.

On the Problems of Population Analyses By L Berinkey Zoological Department of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest In the first part of his paper, author discusses the theoretical considerations of population analyses and allometric investigations. After a survey of the evolvement of the species-concept and its changes in tine, a modern interpretation of species is treated. The primary importance of population analysis is not the description of as many new subspecies as possible but a better understanding of the species involved, and since variability also plays an important role in evolution, investigations of this kind also further the recognition of the laws of these processes. Concerning allometric researches,author briefly surveys the evolvement and development of the theory of allometry, the classification of allometries, and submits a detailed chapter on the usability of allometries in taxonomic studies. In the second part an analysis of eight populations of Goblo gobi

o is given, followed by the presentation of the intraspecific allometries of three populations of Phoxinus phoxinu

s

, and t*c interspecific allometries of Barbus mer, petény

i, Gobio gobl

o, and Phoxinus phoxinu

s. Irodalom - References 1. BARRENS, D. : Zur Methodik allometrischer Untersuchungen nach Studien an Musteliden (Zool.Anz., 162, 1959, p. 30-37). - 2. BAÎÏARESCU, P.: Biometrische und systematische Studien an Gobio gobio aus Rumänien (Vestnik Őeskoslovenské