The Royal Hungarian Minister of Agricul- 
ture had caused in 1900 the large work of 
Stephen Chernel de Chernelhaza on „Orni- 
thologia Oeconomica" of Hungary, to be 
translated into French, in order to make 
accessible to the knowledge of the civilized 
nations the studies of Hungary in the domain 
of agricultural ornithology. As the publications 
of the Hungarian State Office for Ornithology 
under the direction of Mr. Otto Herman appear 
also in German, the Minister now decided 
to publish the History of the Convention for 
the protection of Birds in English. This publi- 
cation endeavours to give a description of 
the present state of international protection 
of birds useful to agriculture and will, it is 
hoped, serve the cause of progress. 
