THE WILD FAUNA OF THE EMPIRE. 



29 



No. 2. 



CONVENTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD 

 3 ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISH IN AFRICA. 



Signed at London, May 19, 1900. 



Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom 

 of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India ; 



His Majesty the German Emperor, King of 

 Prussia, in the Name of the German Empire ; 



His Majesty the King of Spain, and in his name 

 Her Majesty the Queen-Kegent of the Kingdom ; 



His Majesty the King-Sovereign of the Indepen- 

 dent State of the Congo ; 



The President of the French Republic ; 



His Majesty the King of Italy ; 



His Majesty the King of Portugal and the 

 Algarves, etc. ; 



Being desirous of saving from indiscriminate 

 slaughter, and of insuring the preservation through- 

 °ut their possessions in Africa of the various forms 

 of animal life existing in a wild state which are 

 either useful to man or are harmless, have resolved, 

 °Q the invitation addressed to them by the Govern- 

 ment of Her Majesty the Queen of the United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of 

 India, in accord with the Government of His 

 Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia, to 

 assemble with this object a Conference at London, 

 and have named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is 



to 



say: 



