NÁNDOR SALAMON: NEW ST. STEPHEN STATUES IN WESTERN PANNONIA

------------------------The figure, representation of our first King, St. Stephen has always concerned the artists during our history. Recently, a special attention has been given to him at the end of the 20^th century, regarding the millecentenary and the coronation's 1000^th anniversary. Western Pannonia has done its bit during the national statue exhibition: From Lendva to Zalaegerszeg, from the Somló Mountain through Pannonhalma to Mosonmagyaróvár a large number of works - statues, reliefs, memorial signs have been presented. It is a remarkable fact that a quarter of the total number of St. Stephen's memorials has been placed to public areas in this region. The majority of the artists were also coming from those living here. A full-length portrait statue has been erected at Lendva, Zalaegerszeg, Mosonmagyaróvár, Káld and Vashosszúfalu. The compositions with Stephen and Gizella in pair can be seen at Körmend, Kapuvár, and Zarkaháza. Several portrait works can also be found: Bajánsenye, Gérce, Őriszentpéter.
------Relief works have been made at Győr, Magyarnádalja, and Kondorfa. The non-figurative solution, referring indirectly to the personality is found at Szentgotthárd only. The moulding and forming of the majority of the works meet the requirements for the public space statues. The construction of compositions, as well as the proportions and structural interconnections are well serving the symbolic representation of the idea embodied by the St. Stephen's figure.

ISTVÁN BARISKA: ECHOING THE BURGENLAND ANNIVERSARIES

------The author responds to the three Burgenland-related essays dealing with the 80^th anniversary of the annexation of the Western Hungarian land belt to Austria.
------A great virtue of the accredited Burgenland secondary school schoolbook edited by the Floiger-Gruber-Huber teacher's community (1996) - is that it openly takes on the former Hungarian past of the province and builds the Austrian history's 20^th century results into the present Burgenland-picture. Its professional arguments and procedures are, however, erroneous. The struggles for the Hungarian mother tongue in the Reform Age as well as the infrastructure developments in the Civil Period and the consequences of the social inequalities should not be enrolled amongst the examples of hungarising. The Germans in Western Hungary have experienced these processes as an ethnic majority instead of ethnic minority, furthermore, the events of Saint-Germain and Trianon as well.
------The monographic book by Gerald Schlag written on Burgenland is the best work we could read on this issue. According to our opinion, it is a conceptual mistake to link the language-ethnic (Wilson) principle to the historic one. The book is dealing with the 15^th-17^th century civil right lien handling as if it were the legitimacy for the Powers' decisions in the 20^th century.
------The article by Vilmos Brenner, published in the most recent issue of the present journal contains several interesting, however disputable statements. According to our opinion, Burgenland wasn't offered to Austria according with the Wilson-principles but as a compensation for its losses encountered elsewhere. First of all, because renounced joining Germany. The implementation of the Wilson-principles, therefore, was a reference instead of cause. We are interpreting in a different way the relations between the French Left and Horthy's appearance too. Austria abandoned the German Anschluss while Hungary abandoned the Habsburg-restoration. However, the Occident appreciated the Austria's political gesture only and Austria, by obstructing the civil democratic system in Hungary, made possible the Soviet-type power-change in 1919 and allowed to the small Central European nationalisms to split the historical unity of the region.

ÉVA SZALONTAI: LEGAL REGULATIONS REGARDING THE FOREIGN CITIZENS' OWNERSHIPS IN THE AGE OF "POCKET CONTRACTS" Part I

------The author, in her study interspersed with historical and legal policy principles, however being always thematic, analyses the current problems regarding the foreign citizens' agricultural land purchase. She presents the completely bound, the fully liberal and the present limitedly regulated land policy's legal background. She also clarifies the theoretical questions of the regulation and she explores by a significant sociological collection work the backstairs of property acquisition as well as the injurious, mostly economically oriented practice. She standardizes the so-called "pocket-contracts" and tries to analyse the governmental measures intended to prevent these phenomena - to the level of law drafts. Seeking solution alternatives, she explores the authoritative practices of different Western European states in this respect as well as the standardizations in the Hungarian legal literature. The reader of this study can get a comprehensive picture on an important segment of the interesting and topical area lying on the borders of the economy, law and policy.

JÓZSEF GYURÁCZ - PÉTER BÁNHIDI - TÍMEA NÉMETH: HABITAT SELECTION OF MIGRATING BIRDS AT THE NAGY-LAKE AT TÖMÖRD AND ITS ENVIRONS

------In 1999, the authors have studied the habitat selection of 38 bird species belonging to different taxa. The data regarding the 3837 specimens of the 38 species derive from the birdringing camp at Tömörd. The studied area has a mosaic vegetation structure: watery habitat, tussock, bush and forest spots can be found here; besides, the area is bordered by plough-lands and continuous hornbeam and oak forests. The species were compared according to their habitat selection by cluster and main component analysis.
------The majority of the long-distance migrating species were found on the more open, shrubby and grassland habitats. The short-distance migrating species as well as those wintering in Hungary are continuously present in the migratory period on the studied area. The majority of the specimens stay in the more closed shrubby areas - protected thus from the predators. The long-distance migratory birds' habitat selection is therefore exhibiting significant differences compared to the short-distance migratory species.

BALÁZS KESZEI: VEGETATION OF THE MEADOWS ALONGSIDE THE RÉPCE IN THE AREA OF KEMÉNYEGERSZEG

------The large meadows divided by groves and ditches lying near Vasegerszeg (Keményegerszeg) linked organically to the areas protected as part of the Fertő-Hanság National Park along the Répce River.
------These meadows are significant not only because the protected plant species (Iris sibirica, Dianthus superbus, Scilla vindobonensis) but - as remnants of Western Pannonian grasslands - have landscape aesthetic significance as well. The study provides information on the plant associations (coenoses) and a complete species list as well.

NORBERT BAUER - ZOLTÁN KENYERES - GÁBOR TAKÁCS: CURRENT STATUS OF THE WESTERN HUNGARIAN HABITATS OF THE AUSTRIAN GENTIANELLA

------The authors have investigated the habitats of the Austrian gentianella (Gentianella austriaca Dost) - having a prominent natural protection value - at the Zsidó-Meadow at Bozsok (Kőszegi-Mountains) as well as at the Rábcakapi-Meadow (Hanság). Within the frames of this nature protection research, besides the phytocoenological sampling and evaluation, the study of orthopters has also been performed - this group possessing good habitat-indication ability too. The publication, besides the description of flora and vegetation of the Zsidó-Meadow at Bozsok as well as the characteristic plant types at the Rábcakapi-Meadow also includes time-related (Zsidó-Meadow) and space-related (Rábcakapi-Meadow) comparative analyses on the naturalness considering the current status of the orthopters' associations as well.

MOLNÁR L. - HORVÁTH B. - MOLNÁR L. jr.: INCIDENCE AND RHYTHMIC VARIATION IN THE RATE OF ECTOPIC PREGNANCIES IN THE WESTERN PART OF HUNGARY (1996-1999)

------The authors report on the changing incidence of ectopic pregnancies in Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas and Zala county between 1996-1999. The rate of ectopic pregnancies increased among registered pregnancies in this region. The ectopic pregnancies showed a seasonal rhythmic of occurrence with peak values between September and March. Spontaneous abortions and term pregnancies tended to show a rhythm the inverse of ectopic pregnancies. These data show an influence of the seasons on the rate of ectopic pregnancy, which may have implications for both the understanding of ectopic pregnancy's causative mechanisms.