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THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS IN HUNGARY 
German criticism, based on the fact that the book contained 
exhaustive knowledge, acknowledged that the same was an 
exemplary popular book: it is given as a prize by many 
foreign societies. ^ 
The expert critic pointed out that the work, with all its 
conciseness, was particularly rich in material and praised the 
splendid, life-like qualities of Cscrgey's drawings, qualities 
that are perhaps only natural in an artist who was at the 
same time an ornithologist. 
It was particularly the chapter of this little book dealing 
with the protection of birds which attracted the attention of 
the German champions of the cause to Hungary, more espec- 
ially as the tendency of the same was identical with that 
carried to victory in our days, not without a struggle, by 
Baron John Berlepsch-Seebach, a worthy son of the great 
German apiarist: of this mention is made below. 
After this digression we must return to the year 1901, the 
culmination, through the writing and publishing of the work 
on the usefulness and noxiousness of birds, of an era, the 
moments of which connect the present with the First Inter- 
national Ornithological Congress, lasting for 10 years (1891 — 
1901). 
IgnAcz DarAnyi considered the time was ripe for the 
taking of determined measures for the protection of animals, 
and particularly of birds, useful to agriculture, such measures 
to be given the binding force of law. 
1901. Consequently on March 18, 1901, after careful preparation 
and thorough investigations, he issued, in conjunction with 
the Ministers for Home Affairs and Commerce a circular 
decree (24655/VII. 1.), which, being founded on existing 
^ Reichenow, in „Ornithologische Monatsberichte". Berlin, 1903. 
