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FOREWORD 
IGNACZ Daranyi, the Royal Hung. Minister of Agri- 
culture, which orders State forests to be gradually 
provided with nesting-boxes, the only method for 
preserving at least a part of the birds useful to 
agriculture: and 2) a decree issued on April 27, 
1906 (No. 26,120) by His Excellency Count Albert 
Apponvi, Royal Hung. Minister of Public Instruction' 
which orders the introduction of „Birds Days" and 
,Tree Days" in the scheme of work of elementary 
schools. 
These two decrees certainly form a consummation. 
The principle of „suum cuique" incumbent on all 
historians requires us to make mention of the late 
Count Oyula Andrassy, formerly Prime Minister 
of Hungary, then Austrian and Hungarian Minister 
for Foreign Affairs, who in his latter capacity with 
much ingenuity brought about the Hungaro-Austro- 
Italian „Declaration" (1875) which did great service 
to the cause of international protection for birds 
by giving the negotiations a positive direction. 
Before closing my prefatory remarks, I must 
express my heart-felt gratitude to His Excellency 
Mr. iGNACZ Daranyi for the flattering confidence 
he has reposed in me; of the officials of the 
imperial and royal Austrian and Hungarian Foreign 
Office to His Excellency Mr. Ladislaus Muller 
(Chief of Department), to Messrs. Br. Denes Tallian 
and Emil Brunner de Wattenwyl (Sectional 
Councillors); of the officials of the Royal Hung. 
