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HISTORICAL PART 
a fresh attempt at friendly agreement having proved unsuccess- 
ful, the Italian delegate made the declaration previously for- 
mulated, a step in which he was followed by the Hungarian, 
German, Austrian, British and Dutch delegates. 
At this critical juncture the delegate of Luxemburg stated 
that an agreement would be impossible if so large a pro- 
portion of the States withdrew, and proposed that a limited 
committee be appoint to attempt a reconciliation. This pro- 
posal was accepted and the said committee was constituted 
as follows: Tisserand, Tiiiel, Fatio, Prost, with the Austrian 
and Hungarian delegates. 
At the meeting of the same Tisserand yielded on some 
points; and then the Berlin clauses were taken as basis, a 
fact which resulted in a similar compliancy on the part of 
the creators of the Berlin draft. Thus in a comparatively 
short time absolute unanimity was attained. 
The draft of an agreement, with XV clauses and two 
schedules (useful and noxious birds) attached, was prepared. 
This draft was presented to the plenum of the International 
Conference on June 29, 1895 and was unanimously adopted. 
The minutes of this meeting were signed by all delegates 
including the representative of Italy. 
According to the minutes (protocol) the delegates were 
to take over the draft of the agreement with the object of 
submitting the same to the approval of their respective govern- 
ments. 
Before following the further progress of the Convention, 
we must remark that the middle ^schedule", which in the 
French draft dealt with winged game, was left out, for it 
appeared that on this point there was a great diversity of 
opinion between the various States, a fact that made agree- 
ment unfeasible. 
It appeared, further, that expert ornithologists had, in most 
