CONTENTS. 
Page 
Foreword 1 
I. Generalia 8 
Introduction 9 
Birds and Nature 9 
Birds and Man 20 
II. Historical Part 26 
Preliminaries 27 
The meeting of German agriculturists and foresters, 1868 . . 32 
The first steps ^ 33 
The points of Frauenfeld and Targioni Tozetti 35 
International agricultural Congress, Vienna, 1873 38 
Tschudi's proposal 40 
Marenzeller's proposal 41 
Brehm's proposal 46 
Settegast's proposal 48 
The Vienna Resolution 50 
The „Declaration« of 1875 52 
Developments 56 
The First International Ornithological Congress, 1884 . . 59 
Altum's proposal 61 
Palacky's proposal 64 
Russ's proposal 64 
Fatio's proposal 64 
Borggreve's proposal 64 
KermeniC's proposal 65 
