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fell upon Stephen Necsey, who, though indeed engaged 
particularly in the production of entomological drawings, after 
a comparatively short study of the subject, based on the works 
of the classical British illustrators, Keulemans, Thorkurn 
etc. and on an observation of living birds, was able to offer 
pictures of birds that, by the aid of skilful, softening repro- 
ductions, could hold their own with those of his masters. 
Necsey was assisted by Gyula Harv, our eminent painter, 
whose brush knows no difficulties. 
The fate of the work dealing with economic ornithology 
was, however, not decided till Ignacz Daranyi took office; 
for among the Ministers for Agriculture of the constitutional 
era he was the first to bring the necessary feeling and indo- 
mitable energy to bear on the development of an agricultural 
literature in a manner that would make agricultural knowledge 
accessible to the humblest agricultural labourer. 
To return to the subject of our sketch, IgnAcz DarAnyi 
was thoroughly convinced of the great economic significance 
of birds, a conviction due, in his case, to his practical 
experience of agricultural life, and was, consequently, in- 
clined to adopt the system of rational bird-protection. So 
it is quite natural that, recognising the necessity of publishing 
a book on economic ornithology, he used all the influence 
he could command to carry out the plan. 
He addressed a Rescript to the Hungarian Central Office 
for Ornithology, entrusting the same with the carrying out 
of the work: and, as thorough preparations had been made 
for the publication (some parts of the book were already 
written by this time), the two volumes of the book, which 
was every inch of it Hungarian, were ready for publication 
within two years (1898—99). The full title of the work was 
as follows : „A foldmivelesugyi magyar kiralyi Minister kiad- 
vanyai. | Magyar Ornithologiai Kozpont. | Magyarorszag mada- 
