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II. Biologia: Dr. es Sc. Emile Oustalet, Mus. Hist. 
Naturelle, Paris. 
III. Anatomia: Dr. M. Furbringer, of Jena (now at 
Heidelberg). 
IV. Ornithogeographia : E. Giglioli, Florence, and Ph. 
L. ScLATER, London. 
V. Migratio: J. A. Palmen, Helsingfors. 
VI. Ornithologia oeconomica: Th. Liebe, Gera, v. Wan- 
GELiN, Merseburg, and Izidor Maday, of Budapest.^ 
The Hungarian Scientific Committee was convinced that the 
formation of the classes and the appointment of referendaries, 
who were requested to treat of the position of the respective 
branches from the point of view of historical development, 
would give a firm and salutary basis to the discussions of 
he classes and enable the Congress to make the best use 
of the short time at its disposal. 
This conviction was not misplaced, as among the reports 
there are works of lasting value. 
The fourth (VI) Class, that of economic ornithology, com- 
bined everything relating to the economic significance of birds, 
including the question of international bird-protection as well, 
for the treating of which, with regard to the preliminaries 
and current tendencies, the services of three referendaries, as 
we see, were requested and secured. 
The Congress open on Whitmonday, 1891. We may say 
that it was a brilliant success and deserves special mention 
as being the first occasion that Englishmen took part in an 
International Ornithological Congress held on the Continent. 
R. B. Sharpe, the keeper of the British Museum, con- 
^ These classes were later reduced to 4, No. IV being that dealing 
with the current question of the protection of birds. 
