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ideas, and these wise proposals were 
passed over without notice. 
Again, in 1903, I received an in- 
vitation to lecture on the protection of 
natural scenery, of its original vegeta- 
tion and animal world, with special 
reference to Sweden. These lectures 
took place at Stockholm, Upsala, 
Goteborg, and Lund, in January, 1904; 
and the paper was published by the 
Swedish Society for Anthropology and 
Geography \ 
Then, in the same year, a bill for 
the preservation of natural monuments 
was brought in by Lektor K. Starback, 
member of the Riksdag, and the 
government requested a memorial 
from the Royal Academy of Sciences. 
In this memorial, protection by law 
1 Conwentz, H. Cm skydd det naturliga 
landskapet jamte dess vaxt-och djurvarld, sarskildt 
i Sverige. Med 7 illustrationer. Ymer. Arg. 
1904, pp. 17-42. 
