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The desire of the Swedish Government was that an 
exception should be made in favour of this one case. 
Though this fell foul of one of the chief principles of the 
Convention, viz. that of forbidding wholesale taking of birds, 
the same opportunism which had predominated during the 
negotiations and a desire to do something, however trifling, 
to further the international protection of birds, led to this 
request also being accepted. To this end § 16 was con- 
structed, to modify the second paragraph of § 8, in which 
only the use of firearms is permitted. According to this alter- 
ation the employment of another method (i. e. nets) was 
permitted. 
This was the stage in which the cause of the Convention 1900. 
entered the year of Grace 1900, which, as we know, the 
French nation was desirous of making a World's Jubilee by 
the holding of a World Exhibition. The brilliant occasion 
was utilised to arrange international worldcongresses in which 
every sphere of interest was concerned. In this brilliant array 
of international assemblies was included the Third Internati- 
onal Ornithological Congress, which, like its Hungarian 
predecessors, instituted a special section for economic ornith- 
ology. 
At the time of the Congress, and for some time previously, 
Ignacz Daranvi was at the head of Hungarian agricultural 
affairs, and, interested as he was to an extraordinary extent, 
not only by insight but from predilection, in the cause of 
bird-protection, he caused the present writer to represent 
him at the Paris Congress, since he himself, as Hon. President 
of the International Agricultural Congress which was being 
simultaneously held, was engaged elsewhere. 
The two Congresses joined hands in the cause of inter- 
national bird-protection, if for no other reason, because of 
the predilection and enthusiasm of the President, Meline 
