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scape by advertisements is a matter of 
urgent necessity. 
In 1906, parliament granted for 
the first time an annual sum of money 
for promoting interest in protecting 
natural monuments in Prussia. This 
money is not to be utilised for the 
purchase of lands possessing natural 
monuments, but only for the purpose 
of organising movements devoted to 
that end. 
Government 
Education Department. In ac- 
cordance with the above mentioned 
proposals, a ''State Office for the Care 
of Natural Monuments in Prussia" was 
instituted, in the year 1906, under the 
superintendence of the minister ; and 
a Prussian State Commissioner was 
nominated. The duty of the Commis- 
sioner is to schedule and collect infor- 
mation concerning natural monuments, 
