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Zoological Museum Copenhagen, re- 
served a small coast-district, for pre- 
serving its characteristic vegetation 
and animal life. 
France 
Efforts for preserving natural monu- 
ments have been promoted for some- 
time past by the State Forest Board ; 
and it is worthy of note that the 
higher officials of the forests, corre- 
sponding to the German ''Oberforst- 
meister,'' are in France called ''Con- 
servateurs des Forets/' There is an 
order, dating from 1827, that in the 
State Forests no ground-growths of 
any kind are to be removed and 
utilised without strict permission of 
the Board. 
By a law of 1861, several portions 
of the State Forest of Fontainebleau 
(les series artistiques) have been ex- 
