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accepted at the closing session of the Congress on May 20, 
1901. 
At this closing session there figured another resolution, 
presented by Benedek Tischer, the president of the Augs- 
burg Ornithological Society. 
This resolution declared that the lamprooms of lighthouses 
ought to be surrounded with nets that, without diminishing 
the lighting power, should put an end to the well-known 
calamity of birds migrating at night, which flew at the glass 
plates protecting the light and were crushed to death. 
This resolution was referred to the PIOC.^ 
Herewith the Second International Congress completed its 
activity in the field of international bird-protection. In this 
cause there was, indeed, no progress shown; but, in com- 
parison with the Vienna Congress, which merely threw the 
„ Declaration" into the shade without offering anything better 
in its place, it had renewed that agreement and enabled the 
Hungarian Government to itself take the initiative in opening 
negotiations with the various countries, as it actually did. 
We must remark that MAdav's report and resolution was 
the result of an action begun by the Austro-Hungarian For- 
eign Minister on the one part and by the Hungarian Ministries 
of Agriculture and Public Instruction on the other, with a 
view to getting the „ Declaration" of 1875 confirmed by 
challenging afresh the opinions of experts and so enabling 
them to abide by it as a basis for further negotiations. 
The action was begun by the Austro-Hungarian Foreign 
Minister at the time when the assembling of the Second 
International Ornithological Congress at Budapest was no 
longer doubtful, in a despatch (No. 1853 9. A: April 7. 1890) 
addressed to Count Andrew Bethlen, then Hungarian Minister 
^ Which never bothered about it. 
O. H. 
