MÁRTON VERESS: ON THE LAND OF THE ICE AND VOLCANOES
(Icelandic travel diary)
 
 

                    The Natural Geography Department of the Berzsenyi Dániel Teacher Training College organised an expedition to Iceland. In this present study we present the route of the expedition and the main geological and morphological objects found there. During the trip we carried out morphological data collection, observations and examinations. The investigations rendered us able to classify the different forms of the pseudo-karstic and pseudo-covered lava surfaces form morphogenetical aspects. We have described and explained the formation of the compounded lava caves. We have examined the formation circumstances of the travertines formed out of hot water, the circumstances influencing the settling as well as the morphology formed out during the deposit process. The significance of the latter examinations is represented by the fact that through them we can reach closer to the understanding of similar processes that take place in the case of karstic waters and medicinal waters.
 

BALÁZS KESZEI-GERGELY KIRÁLY-LÁSZLÓ KULCSÁR: NEW DATA TOTHE VASCULAR PLANTS OF THE KÕSZEG AREA

                    During the field studies since 1996, the following new species occurred on the Kõszeg area: Amaranthus deflexus, Carex pseudocyperus, Erythronium denscanis, Galega officinalis, Salix viminalis, Telekia speciosa.
The species known from older data but having not found yet are the following: Carex fuscus, Carex appropinquata, Carex cupina, Carex hordeistichos, Cyperus fuscus, Eleocharis palustris, Fagopyrum esculentum, Galeopsis tetrahit, Inula britannica, Laserpitium pruthenicum, Nonea pulla, Potamogeton natans, Pyrola rotundifolia, Reseda lutea, Scilla bifolia agg.
 


LÁSZLÓ SZABÓ: THE HISTORY OF TAKING CARE OF DIABETIC CHILDRENIN VAS COUNTRY

                    The study surveys the 30-year history of the care. The necessary medicines, equipment and tools are available for the therapy. The care means regular control. The aim of this is to ensure the balanced sugar metabolism and the almost normal blood-sugar level for the children. The children are educated concerning their state. The author deems important to promote the skills of the society relating to the diabetes.
 
 
 
 

KEREKES ÁGNES BARÁTHNÉ-BOLDIZSÁR HORVÁTH:THE SITUATION OF THE HEALTH PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, FURTHER TRAININGAND THEIR CHALLANGES

                    The study provides a summary of the special situation of the training and further training of the health care personnel. The emphasis, in the past, has been placed on the supply and not on the quality training. According to the authors, fewer would leave the health care profession if the training would fulfil employment-retaining function and the higher qualification would mean a more advantageous situation. The schools, hospitals and sponsors involved in the sanitary professional training should serve the demand for the growing quality.
 


TAMÁS SZÉLL AND KÁLMÁN SZÉLL: CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORYOF THE FAMILY SZÉLL DE DUKA AND SZENTGYÖRGYVÖLGY

                    The twin authors are looking back to the historical origin of the Széll family. The former nobility of the family has been reinforced by Ferdinand III. Hungarian King in 1639. The countrywide-spread family's most renowned branch has been represented by the Vas County phylum and, within this, the "Phylum of Bucsu". From this phylum emerged Imre Pál Széll, parliamentary minister and Royal Personal Supreme Court Officer (so-called "Septemvir"), (1793-1856), József Antal Széll, County's Sub-Lieutenant and later Lord Lieutenant (1801-1873), Kálmán Széll Minister of Finance later Prime Minister (1843-1916), Ignác Széll Under-secratary of State for Home Affairs, later County's Sub-Lieutenant (1845-1914), József Széll, Lord Lieutenant later Minister of the Interior (1880-1956), Emil Széll Chief Deputy Sheriff (1886-1918) and Ödön Széll landowner (1873-1929). It is also interesting that the two great Hungarian poets' - Vörösmarty and Arany - daughters were each married by a Kálmán Széll. After the World War II - like many other historic noble families - the Széll family was also spread in the world. The historic name - rightly - does not mean a prerogative anymore. Much more, means fidelity toward the homeland and specific moral commitment.



GÁBOR TÓTH: SOME DATA TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE HERÉNYI FAMILYFROM VAS COUNTY

                    The history of the Herényi Family of Vas County has been written by dr. Herényi István, a historian. In order to supplement the family-tree investigations an anthropological examination has been carried out that relies on the examination results of 4 generations' bone material (5 skeletons) and 2 living generations' investigation. The anthropometrical examinations on the exhumed remains showed the typical values of the biological reconstruction. The methods used in the international practice for sex and age identification have also been controlled. The comparative examinations carried out with the SYN-TAX 5.0 software show the anthropometrical distances within the family thus determining a certain degree of the inheritance.
 
 

ANTAL MAROSFALVI: "ANGEL" STORY
(The restoration of the St. Peter-St. Paul altar-piece paintedby Dorffmeister)

                    An unknown hand painted two ugly angel figures on the altar-piece of Dorffmeister in Nova, in 1912. The congregation became attached to the familiar angel figures and this fact made the author of our publication - the restorer of the Szombathely Gallery - to face an interesting task. He solved this duty by studying the angels painted by Dorffmeister elsewhere and he recreated the angels of the picture.
 


MIKLÓS ZOLTÁN MOLNÁR: PHONETIC OBSERVATIONS IN THE ENVIRONSOF SZOMBATHELY

                    This present study, after the vocabulary and morphology examination, analyses phonetically the living language material collected around Szombathely. It examines the territorial equivalents of the "j" (sounds approx. "yee") sound marked with the "ly" letters, the "lj" sound-link as well as the "é" followed by "á" in the everyday language (e.g. the phonetics represented by the words like "ilyen", "teljes", "málna") - from language geography and sociolinguistic aspects. It also indicates - with the help of statistical indices - the relation between dialect and standard language.
 


VILMOS BRENNER: FORMER LOCALITIES AND LOCALITY NAMES ON THE AREAOF THE PRESENT BURGENLAND ACCORDING TO A MAP FROM 1792
 

                    Two intellectuals living in Vienna: Demeter Görög and Sámuel Kerekes have been issuing a Hungarian-language weekly paper in the "Town of the Emperor", Vienna, between 1792 and 1803 named "Magyar Hírmondó". As an illustrated supplement of this paper the readers were provided with the county maps of that time. Our article is dealing with the locality names of the former Vas County - today Burgenland - and the traffic conditions according to the county map edited in 1792. This appeared in 1796 in the publications of the Hungarian paper in Vienna in 1796.