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HISTORICAL PART 
The Conference was summoned for June 25, 1895: but 
the Hungarian, Austrian and German Government decided 
that their delegates should meet, those of the first two States 
at Vienna, those of all three States at Berlin, before proceed- 
ing to Paris, that they might come to a mutual understanding 
in advance. 
This mutual understanding was all the nore urgent, for, though 
the Hungarian Government could enact uniform regulations 
for the whole of the territory of Hungary, Austria was unable 
to do so, seeing that many of its provinces possessed orga- 
nisations differing from one another in many respects and 
that, in the matter of bird-protection, the several provinces 
possessed laws that were in many points diverse. Further, the 
inclinations of the peoples had to be taken into account, 
being as they were utterly different among the Italians of the 
South and the German and Slav elements of the rest of the 
Empire. 
The position of Germany was in many points similar, 
some of the States having very old (Lippe-Detmold had one 
dating from 1777) laws and regulations still in force. It was 
no easy task to find a solution in Paris that should smooth 
over all there difficulties. 
The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture was then under 
Count Andor Festetics, who decided that Hungary should 
be represented by Francis Saarossy-Kapeller, Ministerial 
Councillor, who naturally took part in the preliminary dis- 
cussions too. His official report,^ with its supplements, forms 
the basis of the following description of the proceedings at 
Paris. 
The preliminary conference held at Vienna between the 
Hungarian delegate and the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture 
1 Hung. Min Agr. No. 64,921/VII. Sept. 2, 1895. 
