174 Nature protected 
In other States of the U.S.A., 
similar State Parks and game pre- 
serves have been estabHshed. 
In Boston, there is a Society for 
the protection of native plants, which 
publishes a bulletin. 
A private donation too is of 
interest. Mrs Fanny Foster Tudor 
founded in remembrance of her late 
daughter, Virginia, the Virginia 
Wood," which is a coniferous wood 
of twenty acres in Stoneham. 
International 
The care of natural monuments 
is not only a national, but also an 
international affair ; and there are 
already beginnings of international 
organisation of the same sort. For 
example, at the first Peace Conference 
held at the Hague in 1899, the 
delegates agreed (art. Lv.) as follows : 
