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such relief measures as you may deem most 

 practical and to employ such metliods as you 

 may consider most efficacious; we are prepared 

 to supply you, through our secretariat, with 

 any information or explanations which you 

 may require. We merely toeg to draw your 

 attention to the following points : 



As a result of the depreciation in the Aus- 

 trian exchange, quite insignifloant sums, if con- 

 verted into crowns, amount to very consider- 

 able figures. For instance, we have pointed 

 out in the attached report that, with the aid of 

 1,000 Swiss francs, the Academy of Science in 

 Vienna could resume its publications, and that 

 a sum of 500 Swiss francs would enable almost 

 any of the great scientific associations — such as 

 the Anthropological Society or the Society for 

 MJodern Philology — to recommence their work. 



We earnestly invite the universities, acade- 

 mies and learned societies of the whole world 

 to send their publications to the Austrian uni- 

 vei'sities, academies and learned societies, or to 

 organize systems of exchange with them. We 

 urge them to condude with the Amba (the 

 Austrian "office for providing books and 

 instruments") agreements for cooperation sim- 

 ilar to that established with England. Such 

 agreements would provide an excellent basis 

 for the organization of intellectual relief and 

 might 'be extended, with suitable adaptations, 

 to other countries whose needs are similar to 

 those of Austria. 



As regards the supply of purely material 

 requirements (such as clothing, boots, articles 

 of primary necessity, etc.) it is suggested that 

 agreements should be concluded with the Zegam 

 (the "Central Purchase Organization for Asso- 

 ciations of Intellectual Woi-kers"). 



We further invite iinivereities, academies 

 and learned societies to organize the exchange 

 of professors and lecturers with similar estaib- 

 lishments in Austria, and we suggest that men 

 of science should either visit Austria them- 

 selves or endeavor by means of personal inter- 

 course to 'break down the wall of intellectual 

 isolation with which that unfortunate eounti-y 

 is surrounded. 



In order to relieve the unhappy condition of 

 Austrian professors, men of science, writers 



and artists, who are suffering increasingly from 

 under-feeding, we would urge you to assist 

 them and their families to spend their holidays 

 abroad. 



It might even be possible — ^^and no form of 

 assistance could be more useful or more ur- 

 gently desirable — to place certain immediately 

 available funds or foundations at the disposal 

 of Austrian men of science and students in 

 order to enasbie them to continue their re- 

 searches and studies. 



The aim of these suggestions, which are put 

 foj'ward at the beginning of a winter which 

 may well prove decisive for the fate of Aus- 

 tria, is to encourage to the utmost the organ- 

 i.zation of relief measures from as wide a field 

 and in as uniform a manner as possible. 



Much can be accomplished with small means. 



In coming to the assistance of Austi-ia, and 

 of other nations whose intellectual life is in 

 danger, you will be strengthening that sense 

 of professional brotherhood which should 

 unite all brain-workers, j'ou will be taking 

 effective and practical action to promote intel- 

 lectual cooperation, and, above all, you will 

 be helping to support civilization in the 

 struggle against the most serious peril which 

 threatens it. For these rea,sons we are con- 

 fident that our appeal wiU not be launched 

 in vain. 



For the committee on intellectual coopera- 



H. Bergsost, 

 of the "Aoademie Frangaise," 



President 

 G. DE Reynold, 

 Professor of Berne University, 



Bapporteur 

 0. DE Halecki, 

 Professor of Warsaw University, 

 Geneva, Secretary 



November 4, 1922 



SCIENTIFIC EVENTS 



LONDON BIRD SANCTUARIESi 



The committee on the establishment of bird 

 sanctuaries in the royal parks, appointed by 



1 From the London Times. 



