722 INDEX. 



Pups, seal — Continued. Page. 



Podding of 63 



Useless slaughter of 277 



Purchasing station for reindeer in Siberia suggested 651 



Range of vision of seals 65 



Rations for herders and apprentices at Teller Reindeer Station 628 



Reef Rookery, description and conditions on 80, 340, 341, 454 



Regulations of the Alaska Commercial Company 255 



Regulations, suggested, for driving and killing seals 538 



Reindeer: 



Cape Prince of Wales 647 



Domestic, introduction of, into Alaska 565 



Effect of stocking Alaska with 572 



Fund, 1894-95 574 



Harness of 631 



Herders and apprentices 621 



Herder's dogs 629 



Introduction of, into Alaska, public interest in proposition 567 



Purchasing station for, suggested in Siberia 651 



Skins, value of 573 



Trainiug of 616 



Residents of St. Paul Island in 1870, list of 260 



Resources, food, of natives of Pribilof Islands 427 



Revenue cutters, causes for presence of, in Alaskan waters 273 



Rookeries, sea lion, orgauization of 141 



Rookeries, seal: 



Abandoned 109 



Alaska, commercial importance of 7 



Arrival of seals on 46, 54, 375 



Behavior of seals on 57, 265 



Changes in 110, 374 



Conditions of, in 1872 and 1890 380 



Derivation of nomenclature of 267 



Description of 75,80,331,339 



Disorganization of 61 



Fasting of seals on 53, 291 



Masaf uera Island 201 



Need of yearly examination 114 



North Pacific, isolation of 7 



Organization of 55 



Preemption of 48 



Russian records of 76, 331 



Seal life on, review of : 66,377 



South Atlantic aud Pacific, data relating to 194 



Space occupied by seals on 79, 333, 336 



Suggestions for jirotection of 446 



Surveys of 93, 100, 173, 329, 330, 367, 512, 515-517, 526 



Time of arrival of seals on, 1870-1890 378 



Yearly changes in 110 



Russian- American Fur Company: 



Decay of, after death of Baranov 246 



Governors of the Pribilof Islands, 1799-1867 270 



Organization and history of 244 



Russian and American rule, condition of natives of the Pribilof Islands under. 28 



Russian names, orthography 250 



Russian records regarding seal life 76, 331 



Russian seal islands, need of knowledge concerning 379 



Russians, colonization of Pribilof Islands by 27 



Russo-China trade in skins, sketch of 127 



St. George Island : 



Agriculture 15 



Census of 29 



Dimensions of 25 



Explanatory notes and comments on map of 284 



Geographical situation of 169 



Geological formation of 13 



Great Eastern Rookery, description and conditions on 98, 365, 366, 472 



Killing grounds, description 136, 406 



Little Eastern Rookery, description and conditions on 98, 364, 365 



North Rookery, description and conditions on 97, 363, 364, 469 



