36 Nature protected 
Aims 
In general, there are three aims to 
which these efforts should be directed : 
first, to establish a register or inventory 
and to map the natural monuments ; 
secondly, to preserve them in loco ; and 
thirdly, to publish accounts of them. 
Registration 
For a long time past, an inventory 
of monuments of architecture and art 
has been taken in nearly all civilised 
States^ Monuments of nature, so 
far as they are known, should now 
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