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HISTORICAL PART 
Let us now examine the series of proposals offered in 
the course of the debate. The brilHance of the occasion 
justifies the enumeration in detail; and only by such enu- 
meration can the historian form a proper conclusion, in the 
interests of posterity. 
Dr. Palacky — and later on Victor Fatio — support- 
ing their proposals with exhaustive arguments, proposed, the 
formation of an international committee (Vigilanz-Comite") 
to control the carrying out of the protection of birds and 
to make a study of the question. 
Dr. Russ's proposal was that „wild European birds not 
included in the regulations of the Game Laws should not 
be taken for food". 
Prof. Talsky's proposal or rather principle was „to let 
live what lives". 
Fatio's proposal re protection was: 
„1. The taking of birds and migratory winged game to 
be forbidden from the middle of winter till the middle of 
spring. 
2. The sale of birds killed or their eggs to be forbidden 
during the same period. 
3. All catching apparatuses suitable for taking the birds 
in question to be absolutely forbidden; and the wholesale 
acquisition of such apparatuses, whether nets or anything 
else, with which similar results could be obtained, to be 
rendered difficult. 
4. Except in justifiable cases, the traffic in useful birds 
to be forbidden at all seasons". 
Borggreve's proposal: 
„The first International Ornithological Congress requests 
the Austrian and Hungarian Governments to take steps to- 
wards the creation of an agreement, based on reciprocity and 
uniting the States of Europe and North Africa, which agree- 
