78 Nature protected 
or historic interest, for the public 
good. The board of the Trust is 
partly elected by the members, partly 
by the chief learned bodies and 
societies in the country, and it is 
thought that a body thus governed 
provides the most efficient organisa- 
tion for the suitable management of 
property requiring peculiar treatment. 
Hitherto not only ancient buildings 
and historic monuments, but other 
properties of various kinds, such as 
hills, cliffs, fens, and woods, have been 
acquired by the Trust (figure 7). 
In 1895, ^ beautiful bit of Welsh 
cliff at Barmouth, of four to five acres 
in extent, was presented to the Trust 
by Mrs Fanny Talbot. It is to be 
kept, as far as possible, in its natural 
condition, and particularly the furze 
is to be unmolested. In the year 
1897, Barras Head, on the north 
Cornish coast, was purchased for 
