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  • Sir, – I observe that the Post Office clerks who have charge of the telegraphs have been holding a meeting to suggest improvements in the conduct of the service. To judge by my experience, there are some improvements they might contrive to introduce without any such ceremony; and it may be useful if you will let me give your readers an instance of the manner in which telegraphic business is now conducted in the City of London. [...]

  • The term "National Park" has a different meaning in Europe from its connotation in America. There it usually signifies an area set aside for educational or scientific purposes, rather than for recreation. The reserves here discussed were, almost without exception, proposed and fostered by scientists; but prominent men of affairs also were interested and their influence often was essential to realization of the project. In certain important reserves (Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden) the lead was taken by organizations corresponding to our National Academy of Sciences, and these still have more or less control, especially as regards research. Popular interest in protection of rare animals and plants is always noticeable and touring organizations have sometimes been keenly active (especially in Italy). [...]

  • Our age is preeminently the age of great cities. Babylon and Thebes, Carthage and Rome, were great cities, but the world has never been so covered with cities as at the present time. [...] [p. 1] Yes, cities, and their resources, must soon become, in a greater degree than ever, the acknow­ledged wealth and power of nations.[...]