Acta Biologica Tomus XXIV. Fasciculi 1-4. [antikvár]

ACTA BIOLOGICA SZEGLl). 24(1-4), pp. .1-12 (1978) COMMEMORATION OF JÓZSEF GELEI, ON THE OCCASION OF THE TWENTY—FITFH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH* I have received the honourable task of erecting a monument, for the second time, to the memory of an illustrious predecessor and friend, the academician Dr. józsef Gelei, professor of the University in Szeged. I say: ''for the second time" because I paid homage and expressed my devotion to him when we surrounded his coffin and — remembering a breath-taking folk-song, the ''Blue forget-menot" sung by him and his students in the train, on the occasion of his last study-tour, as if bidding a last farewell to us — among the dun-coloured clods of earth I saw a bunch of wood forget-me-not flying towards the coffin which separated him from us, definitely and for ever. Who József Gelei was, was and is known by anybody who has ever made approaches to him, having the privilege of Hstening to the explanations of * Address delivered by the author at session 34 of the ''Scientific Sessions of the Academy Committee in Szeged and University Medical School in Szeged 1976/1977", on November 22, 1977.