158 Nature protected 
made a steppe-reservation of about 
247 acres for protecting the interesting 
vegetation {Stipa pennata, St. capil- 
lata, Paeonia tenuifoliay Prunus 
chamaecerasuSy Salvia nutans, S. pra- 
tensis), and the animal world too 
(Saiga). 
Sweden 
A. E. Nordenskiold, the well- 
known investigator of the Polar 
regions, advocated, in 1880, that 
natural reserves ought to be insti- 
tuted not only in Europe but in 
America as well. No harm could be 
done by reserving an original forest of 
considerable extension in the north of 
Sweden for instance, and future gene- 
rations would profit by its study. 
J. Gunnar Andersson, now Director 
of the Swedish Geological Survey, 
proposed to reserve Gotska Sandon ; 
but the time was not ripe for such 
