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Argentina and Chile, is the National Park of Nahuel Huapi, 

 which is at the extreme southern point of the district of 

 Neuquen in the Patagonian Andes. Quite different from the 

 previously mentioned tropical reserves, this represents a tem- 

 perate climate, and is 430 square kilometres in size. It was 

 mentioned as a remarkable place as long ago as 1690 by the 

 Jesuits of Chile. 



Turning now to the European Continent, we find that many 

 countries have made a real effort to preserve their fauna and 

 flora. As we have pointed out, among European countries, 

 England took the initiative in the year 1884, and in the early 

 'nineties Germany followed with the government department 

 to stimulate the protection of nature, and to carry into effect 

 the preservation of many interesting areas. Professor Con- 

 wentz, the director of this Government department, made great 

 efiorts to secure the subject being taken up in the Scandinavian 

 countries, with the result that Denmark, Norway and Sweden 

 have endeavoured to follow the good example of Great Britain, 

 and to establish reserves. Norway has three reserves; they 

 are all in forest areas, and they have also preserved some 

 waterfalls. The preservation of waterfalls in Norway is very 

 desirable, as most of them in that country are used for the 

 generation of electrical power. Curiously, it is the action of 

 damming up the rivers for the production of electrical power 

 that is causing the rapid reduction in the numbers of the 

 beaver. Of the three areas that are already reserved in 

 Norway, one consists of about 1,100 acres, and one of 10,000 

 acres. The latter, which is situated at a place called Famund- 

 see, contains some remarkable yew trees, which are possibly 

 not far inferior in size to our yew trees in Kingley Bottom. 



Denmark has also endeavoured to establish some reserves. 

 One of these, consisting of about three to four thousand acres, 

 is a heath of very considerable interest, while the so-called 

 Raabjaerg Mile, a large sand-dune of some 450 acres, is care- 

 fully preserved in the neighbourhood of Skagen. Some 

 smaller reserves in Denmark for the preservation of old 

 coast-lines, and the so-called Devil's Wood on the sea-coast, 

 where the trees have been destroyed by the invasion of sand, 

 are also interesting. 



