74 
HISTORICAL PART 
In accordance with the decision of the first meeting of 
the Committee, all the ornithologists of the country were 
1890. invited to assemble on Jan. 19, 1890. Twenty-four in all put 
in an appearance and, under the presidency of John Csato, 
the worthy Nestor of Hungarian ornithologists, at this their 
first meeting succeeded in completely ordering all the strictly 
scientific ornithological agenda of the congress. 
A detailed description of the further progress of the 
organisation does not belong to an historical sketch; all such 
details may be read in the Chief Report of the Congress 
(pp. 17 seq.):^ there is only room here for such details as 
concern, either directly or indirectly, the Congress itself and 
the subdivisions of the same. 
The Committee appointed by the Natural History Society 
completed all the arrangements, including the formation of 
the great National Committee. The latter appointed four 
executive committees, viz.: 
I. Science Committee: Chairman, Otto Herman. 
II. Economic Committee: Chairman, Izidor Madav. 
III. Correspondence Committee: Chairman, John Xanthus. 
IV. Exhibition Committee: Chairman, John Frivaldszky. 
The Science Committee agreed that, to secure the scien- 
tific results of the Congress, classes should be formed, and 
decided to procure the services as referendaries of the most 
distinguished representatives of the science of ornithology and 
the most prominent champions of the protection of birds. 
The classes and the referendaries of the same were as follows: 
I. Systematica: R. Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum, 
London, Dr. A. Reichenow, Berlin, and Prof. A. 
Newton, Cambridge. 
^ ^Fojelentes. Hauptbericht. Compte-rendu. Hivatalos resz. Buda- 
pest, 1892." 
