Author(s): Móczár, L.
Title: Gubacsképződmények elhelyezésének új módszere
Title: A new method for storing gall formations
Year: 1970
Volume: 23
Pages: 401-409.
Abstract: Until quite recently gall formations used to be stored on herbaria pages, while the more bulky ones in small boxes, separately from one another. Occasionally they have been fixed on insectpins by help of paper strips. The author has introduced wooden boxes with glass cover in the Hunagrian Natural History Museum, budapest for storing gall formations. Each gall formation is stored in capsules bear all data concerning the inclusion, such as collecting site, date of collecting, etc., Formations gathered in clusters, of course, remain to a hard cardboard, the folded edges of the capsules may only be opened by manipulation, thus nothing falls out even if they are shifted about. The capsules are stored in the boxes loosely in vertical position, thus the collection can be anlarged ad libitum by including new capsules, or even new boxes in the series. The capsules are classified according to botanical taxonomy. Within a plant species easy survey of the animal species is promoted by index-cards of identical colour referring to one order. The wooden boxes are placed on shelves close beside and above one another in cabinets with solid doors. Outside the boxes and cabinets the name of the respective plant group is indicated. This storing system is prescpicuous like the systematized entomoogical collections, thus there is no need for separate cardboard system, and it may easily be enlarged. In addition, the stored material is safely packed in paper capsules with folded edges and the glass-covered boxes serve as a further shelter from dust, while at the same time the glass top renders easy survey into the material inclued.
Journal: Folia entomologica hungarica
Journal abbreviation: Folia ent. hung.
ISSN: 0373-9465
Publisher: ,
Editor(s): Steinmann, H.