INDEX. 475 



Salmon fislieries— Continued. Page. 



Packers, notice to 391 



Packing stations, Alaska 423, 457 



Protection of 391, 410-418 



Salmon lisliing, natives debarred from 409 



Salmon hatcheries 386, 397 



Salmon, prices of, in San Francisco 446 



Salvadori, Tommasso, preservation of seal life 43 



San Diego, sealing vessel 201 



San Francisco : 



Prices of salmon in 446 



Principal market for salmon 446 



Sclater, I'liilip Lutley, statement regarding seal life 51 



Scotland, law of, relating to salmon lisheries 429 



Sea otter, destruction of 442 



Seal Islands. {Sec also Pribilof Islands.) 



Arrival of seals on 5 



Climjitic conditions 88 



Counsel, American, remarks of, regarding management of 67 



Dead pups on, statemeut of British Bering Sea commissioners 23 



Geographical situation 88 



Meteorological 88 



Seal life, vraste of 126 



Sealers : 



British, catch of, in 1895 361 



Classification of 9 



Indian, opinions of, on decrease of seals 233 



Opinions of, regarding protection from pelagic sealing 76 



White, opinions of, on decrease of seals 226 



Sealing fleet : 



American, vessels composing 164, 294 



Canadian, vessels composing 294 



Increase of 231 



Sealing, pelagic. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Sealing venture, estimated cost of 162 



Sealing vessels, valuation of 162 



Seals : 



Age of, on rookeries 122 



Alaska herd, decrease of 180 



Arrival of, on rookeries 121 



Barren females 123 



Cause of decrease of 11, 16, 41, 95, 98, 113, 278 



Characteristics of 6, 39, 276 



Commander Islands 36 



Decrease of, lack of male life not tlie cause 18 



Decrease of, opinions of white and Indian sealers 226, 233 



Decrease of, pelagic sealing the sole cause of, opinions of experts 173 



Departure of, from islands 124 



Description of 6 



Destruction of, by pelagic sealing 11, 16, 41. 95, 98, 113, 278 



Docility of 308 



Driving and killing 8, 124 



Fasting of bulls on rookeries , 121 



Female, destruction of 131-152, 199, 223, 247 



Female, loss of, British and American testimony 165-173 



Food of .' 52 



Fur of 443 



Habits of 84, 87, 89, 93, 113, 279 



Harems, description of 114 



Harems, dissolution of 5 



Harems, size of 5, 86, 110 



Ilolluschickie, or bachelor seals 123, 309 



Killing of, performed under supervision of Government agents 108 



Management of rookeries not cause of deci'ease of 192 



Manner of driving and killing 90 



Migration of the herd 124 



Migratory course of 298 



Movements of females 115 



Northern 277 



Northern, cause of destruction of 278 



