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servation of natural monuments in Prussia, this bureau advises as 
to and promotes legislation regarding reservations, bird refuges, etc. 
It is in constant touch with the authorities and with societies inter- 
ested in these subjects. It also endeavors to raise the funds needed 
to purchase or to protect landscapes, etc. This bureau is situated in 
the former Botanical Museum Building, and has a number of 
spacious, well-lighted rooms for lectures, for the library, and for the 
use of the staff. 
The librar\- contains about 4,500 volumes of all the literature per- 
taining to nature protection and natural history, a complete collec- 
tion of maps of all kinds, pictures, i)hotographs and lantern slides. 
Very valuable is the bibliographical collection, which contains some 
15,000 cards, with headings covering the whole field of the care of 
natural monuments, protection of nature, and kindred matters. It 
has been the endeavor of the bureau to collect all the foreign litera- 
ture possible; and information and literature concerning the Ameri- 
can National Parks and Monuments are particularly complete. The 
cards concerned with the most important publications contain an 
abbreviated synopsis of their contents. 
In all parts of the country, that is, in all the Prussian provinces, 
committees for the care and protection of natural monuments have 
been established, and these keep in intimate touch with the central 
office. In all, there are 41 such committees in Prussia. They are 
presided over by some higher official, but the actual work is in the 
hands of an experienced and educated naturalist. These committees 
send out questionnaires concerning natural monuments in their terri- 
tory, keep in touch with public opinion, provide pul)lic lectures and 
information, raise funds, issue publications, etc. The State Bureau 
holds weekly conferences where the whole field of interest is dis- 
cussed, and since 1908 annual conferences lasting from one to two 
days have been held, in which delegates from the whole of Germanv 
and even from foreign countries have been present. 
The State Bureau also issues important publications, among which 
are Bcitrage zur Natnrdcnkmalpflcgc herausgegeben von H. 
Conwentz, vols. I-\TI (Gebriider Borntrager, Berlin) ; Natur- 
denkmaler, Vortrdgc nnd Aufsatzc, Nos. 1-22 (Gebriider Born- 
trager, Berlin) ; being popular discussions of various themes of 
nature protection intended to awaken general interest and under- 
standing for the aims of nature protection ; and also a very good 
English work, The Care of Xaliiral Moiiiniiciifs i^'ifli Sf^rrial Refer- 
