THE QUESTION OF THE INTERN. PROT. OF BIRDS COMES TO HUNGARY 83 
the effect of pity and aesthetic feeling as well as the tendency 
produced by education. 
The writers considered that, if it were a question of fram- 
ing international laws, the latter could not be made too 
narrow, but should give every country and every province an 
opportunity of taking any special measures, within the scope 
of the said laws, required by the peculiar conditions of the 
said country or province. It would be not only unfair but 
quite impossible to frame a law that should order everything 
for the states of the northern and tepid zone. 
It was very practical to keep to what already existed, to 
the historical, in discussing international regulations. From 
this point of view it would be desirable to abide by the 
Austro-Hungaro-Italian Declaration of 1875, which, though 
perhaps not perfect and deficient in some respects, would in 
any case do much to further the cause of bird-protection if 
it could come into force in all the States of Europe. 
The Report finally pointed out that individual combination 
could do much to further the cause and called upon the 
members of the class to use their whole influence to create 
societies for the protection of birds. 
This Report entirely ignored the well-known sentimental 
point of view (i. e. sentimentalism), and for that very reason, 
as well as for its sober conceptions and its through dissection 
of the cause of bird-protection, produced an excellent im- 
pression. 
Then followed Izidor Maday's Report, one of the objects 
of which was to explain more precisely the Hungarian point 
of view and so place that country in the van of progress. 
Maday took as his starting-point, not the resolution of 
First International Ornithological Congress (1884) but that of 
the 26*^ Great Assembly of the German Agriculturists and 
Foresters (1868), which was the first to recognise the economic 
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