122 Nature protected 
taken in this direction may very 
properly follow. 
Parliament 
In 1902, a law was passed pro- 
hibiting the disfigurement of the 
country by advertisements. In 1907, 
another law was passed by which the 
local authorities were authorised to 
forbid that places of architectural or 
natural beauty should become defaced 
in any way. It is most undesirable that 
places of natural beauty should be 
openly disfigured by glaring advertise- 
ments, or by unsuitable and unattractive 
buildings. This observation applies, 
I am sorry to say, not only to Prussia 
and all Germany but to all civilised 
countries; and therefore other countries 
would be benefitted by the enactment 
of such laws. In England, a law 
forbidding the disfiguring of the land- 
