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12. On mat tho 16. Order of the day. On may the 16-th, on the eve of the Il-d international 

 Couoress, the members present will have an evening party for mutual aquaintance, at 7 o clock 

 p. m. in the Grand Hotel Huugaria. 



13. Ox MAY THE 17. The opening of the general session of Congress at 10. o clock a. m.^. in 

 the new city Halls. (Lipot-utcza 6.) 



14. Tlie order of the day, of the opening Session. Election of the senior President, and 4 

 recording Secretaries. 



Greeting of the members in the name ot the Government. 

 Salutation on the part of the Capital Budapest. 

 The Senior President, and 4 Secretaries take their place. 

 After this is elected : 

 The President of the Congress, 

 10 Vice Presidents, 

 1 General Secretary, 

 6 Secretaries, 

 1 Sergeant at arms. 



All the elected take their places, the President opens the session, an communicates the 

 order of the day, viz : 



1. Election of honorary members. 



2. The report of the Hungarian Committee, for information. 



•3. Reading of the communications to the Congress, particularly the official Pieport of the 

 permanent international Ornithological Committee : 



4. Upon the performed scientific transactions since the I-th intern. Ornithological Congress. 



5. Upon the state of the treasury, the official Report. 



6. Election of the special Committees. 



The Sections, and special Committees are summoned to constitute themselves, and to commence 

 their transactions. 



Lecture by Alexander Homeyer of Greifswald, „on the life of west african birds". 

 Close of the sitting. 



15. At halfpast two p. m. the opening of the ornithological exhibition in the palace of the 

 Himg. Nat. Museum, and at 4 p. m. Mr. Otto Herman M. P. explains, and demonstrates the results 

 of observations upon the passage of birds. 



At 6 clock P. M. eventually the opening of the exhibitions in te Zoological Gardens. 

 Evening- a social meeting in the Restaui-ation localities of the Zoological Gardens. 



16. ON MAT THE 18. Tite constitution of the Sections, and speckd Committees. The Sections are 

 constituted of those Congressional members, who by booking themselves, have entered their par- 

 ticipation in one of the below named Sections. 



The constitutng of the Section is carried ont by the leader, appointed by the Hungarian 

 Committee, who introduces the members into the locality, and proposes the constitution. 



To the leader of the Section, the chief Secretary of the Himg. Committee hands in the 

 referents name, further the names of the members, and the names of those, who have signified 

 their intention te deliver Addresses, and all of which should be notified to the Chairman elected. 



The constitutions take place at 9 o clock a. m. 



The sections elect : 



1 Chairman, 



1 Vice Chaii'man, 



1 Recording Secretary. 



The referent — as for as possible — is already beforehand chosen out. 



The sections are perfectly independent, and go to work immediately after their consitution. 



The chairmen of the sections will give a report upon their work, on the concluding session 

 of congress. 



