164 Nature protected 
at Geneva. The local natural history 
societies have been anxious to preserve 
the boulders in Switzerland, and one 
of these societies (St Gallen) has 
about 150 in its possession. In 1906, 
a General Committee for the protection 
of natural and prehistoric monuments 
was formed by the Swiss Natural 
History Society. It shows great ac- 
tivity, and publishes particulars every 
year. Committees, with the same 
objects, exist in the cantons. The 
president of the General Committee, 
Dr P. Sarasin, and his cousin Dr J. 
Sarasin, had, six years ago, preserved 
a piece of land containing a large and 
beautiful yew-tree, near Heimiswyl, by 
actual purchase. 
