120 Nature protected 
certain geographers, geologists, botan- 
ists, and zoologists. All reports laid 
stress upon the importance of these 
efforts, and advocated some kind of 
State organisation for the protection 
of natural monuments. I was then en- 
trusted by the Minister of Education 
with the drawing up of a detailed 
memorial (Denkschrift) setting out 
distinct proposals for such an organi- 
sation. This memoir was finished 
early in 1904, and published by order 
of the government^ It contains chiefly 
the following proposals: — first, that 
registers, maps, and illustrations should 
be made of natural monuments of all 
parts of the country; secondly, that 
these natural monuments should be 
protected; thirdly, that they should 
^ Conwentz, H. Die Gefahrdung der Natur- 
denkmaler und Vorschlage zu ihrer Erhaltung. 
Denkschrift, dem Herm Minister der geistlichen, 
Unterrichts- und Medizinal-Angelegenheiten iiber- 
reicht. Berlin, 1904. — III. Auflage, Berlin, 1905. 
