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had to be dropped, a course in which, in the spring of 1888, 
the Crown Prince himself acquiesced. 
Finally, in May, 1888, the Secretary presented the scheme 
for the Congress to the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture, 
the said scheme being a transcription, with some additions, 
of the seven points of the Hungarian special committee, and 
proposed a sum of 10,000 florins 20,000 crowns, for 
expenses. 
As the discords in the PIOC became more and more 
aggravated, the Hungarian Government, which had received 
notice of the same, thought fit to take steps to discover the 
opinion or even to request the decision of the Crown Prince 
Rudolf. 
To this end the then Hungarian Minister of Public In- 
struction, Count Albin Csakv, requested the intervention of 
Laszlo Szogyeny, Chief of Department in the Foreign Mi- 
nister, adding that the year 1889 must be dropped and 1890 
proposed as the year for the holding of the Congress. 
Laszlo Szogyeny fulfilled the request, and, after finding 
a fitting opportunity, on Jan. 9, 1889 communicated the 1889. 
following answer to Albert Berzeviczy, then Secretary of 
State in the Ministry for Public Instruction. 
„His I. and R. Highness thinks it best that the Congress 
should meet in the autumn of 1889 or, still better, in the 
spring of 1890, for there is too little time until May 1889- 
then, again, we must not forget that the Paris Exhibition, 
opening in May 1889, will probably attract more than one 
expert to the French Capital. It is further desirable that the 
quarrel between Dr. Blasius and Dr. Hayek be set aside. 
His Highness, in any case, takes a keen interest in the Con- 
gress and is ready to come to Budapest when the time 
comes and preside at the first meeting". 
This answer was brought to the notice of Dr. Hayek 
