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HISTORICAL PART 
Yet the harmonising Committee could only come to an 
agreement by leaving out Marenzeller's list, which merely 
required sifting. It may be that the temporary harmonising 
committee preferred to leare the matter to the international 
committee ; buth the latter was never formed. This fact greatly 
reduced the practical value of the points. 
But to proceed : it is a well-known fact that Count Gvula 
AndrAssy became Austrian and Hungarian Foreign Minister 
1875. in 1874. His wisdom is shown in the fact that, even before calling 
upon the States of Europe to consider the seven points, he 
attempted to come to an agreement with Italy which, though 
its geographical position and the tendency of its people 
rendered it of prime importance, had not accepted the points 
of the Vienna Congress: a basis for the negotiations was 
offered by the points of the agreement come to in 1872 by 
Frauenfeld and Targioni-Tozetti. His efforts were finally 
crowned with success, an agreement in the form of a „ Decla- 
ration" being come to by the Governments of the Hungarian 
and Austrian Monarchies on the one hand and the Govern- 
ment of Italy on the other. This Declaration, which was 
signed by Count Gyula AndrAssy at Budapest on Nov. 5, 
1875 and by Visconti Venosta at Rome on Nov. 29 of the 
same year, contained the following stipulations: 
Declaration. 
§ 1. The governments of the two parties to this contract 
bind themselves to create, through their respective parliaments, 
strict and comprehensive legislation with a view to securing 
the protection of birds useful to agriculture, at any rate 
within the limits prescribed by the following clauses. 
§ 2. The destruction of nests and lairs, the taking of 
eggs, the fowling of small birds shall be absolutely for- 
bidden. 
