Acta Biologica Tomus XVI. Fasciculi 3-4. [antikvár]

Tlie Biological Committee of the Attila József University and t li e Szeged Division of the Hungarian Biological Society In eld a joint meeting of the Lenin c e n t e n n a r y commemoration day on April 16 1 97 0. After tiie inaugural address of Chairman Prof. Dr. Imre Horváth, there were de liver ed two lectures: Dr. I. M a r ó t i and Dr. Mária Horváth: Paradoxes in biological structures and Prof. Dr. L. Móczár: Ethnolische Ergebnisse an H y m e n o-p t e r e n. SOLEMN SESSION OF THE ATTILA JÓZSEF UNIVERSITY HOMAGE TO LENIN (Presidential inaugural address.) I. Horváth The Biological Committee of the Attila József University and the Szeged Division of the Hungarian Biological Society held a joint meeting on the occasion of the Lenin centennary commemoration day on April 16 1970. After the inaugural address of Chairman Prof. Dr. Imre Horváth, there were delivered two lectures: Dr. I. Maróti and Dr. Mária Horváth: Paradoxes in biological structures and Prof. Dr. L. Móczár: Ethnologische Ergebnisse an Hymenopteren. The centenary of birth of the greatest genius of progressive mankind is celebrated all over the world in these days. Lenin's theoretical and political activity developed at the time as capitalism got to the final stage of its evolution, and as the epoch of proletarian revolutions, the transition of historical significance from capitalism to socialism began. The great theoretician of these social revolutions and the leader of the Great October Socialisr Revolution was Vladimir Ilitch Lenin. The modernization of the methodology, philosophical bases of Marxism was demanded by the strategy and tactics of Revolution. One of the manifestations of Lenin's creative genius was to have recognized and solved that problem. He developed and enriched the dialectical and historical materialism of Marx and Engels, criticized and revealed the idealistic and metaphysical opinions. Lenin's idea that natural sciences and philosophy are closely related is of epoch-making significance. Lenin was the first p lilosopher who recognized in the results of natural sciences — taking his illustrations often from biology — the beginning of a vast scientific revolution that culminates in the socialist society, serving development and prosperity of mankind. Scientists and scholars can render homage to Lenin's memory in the most decorous way by going in the branches of their science to the best of their