470 INDEX. 



Seals— Continued. Page. 



Number t;ikon by pelajiic sealers, 1868-1894 27 



Number taken lov all purposes by Alaska Commercial Company 2.^8-271 



Number taken lor skins by Alaska Commercial Company, 1870-1889 72 



Number taken on Islands, 1895 452 



Nursing females, destruction of 219 



Paris regulations do not protect 80 



Past and future of 276 



Pelagic catch, 1891-1895 445 



Pelagic sealing cause of diminution of 95, 98 



Percentage lost of those struck by pelagic hunters 206 



Percentage of lost, statements by pelagic sealers 216 



Place of birth, return of herd to 125 



Plans, suggested, lor preservation of 299 



Raids on rookeries not cause of decrease of 195 



Reason why pregnant females are taken 202 



Recommendations suggested for preservation of herd 81 



Resorts of 277 



Results of indiscriminate slaughter 239 



Revenue of Government derived from 278 



Rookeries, causes of depletion of 41 



Southern, destruction of 276 



Swimming powers of 123 



Visit only the place of birth 125 



Weight and size f>f 124 



Wounding of 214 



Young, learning to swim 122 



Seal-skin industry : 



Importance of 278 



Its relation to the northern fur 8(>al 277 



Seal-skins: 



Average prices, 1881-1889 163 



Decrease in size of 165 



Fabrication of, number of persons engaged in 147 



Sold and dved in London, stalistics of 147-152 



Shelby, seizure of 327, 328 



Size and weight of seals 124 



Size of seal skins, decrease in 165 



Skins : 



Number marketed, 1881-1889 161 



Number sold and dressed in London, 1868-1889 164 



Number sidd and dyed in London 147-152 



Number sold, result of pelagic sealing, 1872-1891 231 



Number taken within Paris award area, 1890-1894 321 



Prices of, taken at sea 284 



Smuggling 438 



Somow, A., correspondence relating to pelagic sealing 345,346 



Sp.aulding, O. L., Acting Secretary of the Treasury, instructions 395 



Stanley-Brown, J. : 



Correspondence relating to pelagic sealing 360 



Past and future of the fur seal 276 



Statistics of London trade in seal-skins 147-152 



Statistics, official, of seals taken for all purposes bv Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany -' 2.58-274 



Streams, salmcni, held by aliens 388 



Suggestions of British Bering Sea commissioners favor pelagic sealers 65 



Swimming powers of seals 123 



Testimony, British .and American, respecting loss of female seals 165-173 



Thornton (schoone)), libel of 291 



Tin used in canning, cost ^f 423 



Townsend, ('. II., statement regarding seal life 51 



Treasury Department, correspondence with other Departments on pelagic 



sealing 315-382 



I^hl, Edwin F., Acting Secretary of State, correspondence relating to pelagic 



sealing 328 



United States, demonstration of propositions of 77 



Vessels, British, seized, 1886-1890, list of 292 



Vessels, sealing, American, names of 164, 294 



Vessels, sealing, valuation of 162 



