162 Nature protected 
have indeed already been promised 
(Lonnberg). 
Natural history and geographical 
societies at Stockholm, Upsala, and 
Lund have discussed and promoted 
the subject of protection of natural 
monuments. For example, Lunds 
Botaniska Forening'' requested all 
botanists to be careful with rare 
plants, and it excluded the following 
rare species from its exchange list : — 
Scolopendrium vulgare, Equisetum 
maximum^ Car ex punctata, Allium 
carinatum, Genista germanica, Astra- 
galus danicus, Trapa natans, Primula 
sibirica, and others. Again, the Skogs- 
vardsforening, in Stockholm, proposed 
that on the Bonden Island, in the Gulf 
of Bothnia, the destruction of the 
razor-bill {A lea torda) should be pro- 
hibited; and the government agreed 
to the proposal. 
