SUBJECT-INDEX. 607 



Protection : Page. 



By Argentine Republic, of fur-seals 490 



By Chile, of fur-seals 490 



By Great Britain, of hair-seal 488 



By Great Britain, of the fur-seal 488, L90 



By New Zealand, of fur-seals 488 



By Uruguay, of fur-seals 229 



Necessity of, for cows. (See Female seals, protection of by lessees.) 

 Of Alaskan herd : 



American furriers on 49(1 



British furriers on 494 



By close season 517 



By prohibiting firearms 522 



By prohibition of pelagic sealing. (See Prohibition of pelagic seal- 

 ing.) 



By zone about the islands 525, 526 



Dr. Blanchard on 491 



Dr. Giglioli on 492 



Dr. Sclater on 493 



French furriers on 495 



Indian hunters on 501 



Joint Commissioners' report on 490 



Means necessary for • 508 



Necessity of 490 



Opinions of naturalists 490 



Pelagic scalers on 497 



Professor Huxley on 492 



Professor Lilljeborg on 493 



Professor Nordenskiold on - 493 



Various witnesses on 505 



Of female seals 223 



Of fur-seals: 



By Argentine Republic 490 



By Chile 490 



By Uruguay 490 



Of seals at Cape of Good Hope 488 



Of seals at Falkland Islands 



Of seals at New Zealand iss 



Regulations of 1869 for 28, 230 



Protection and preservation 483 



Pups 104 



Birth of 104 



Birth of, in water impossible 110 



Birth of, on kelp beds impossible 121 



Classification of 104 



Departure of, from islands 127 



Dependence of, on their mothers. (.See also, Death of cow causes death 



of pup) 127 



Destruction of, by killing mothers 127, 146 



Inability to swim 106 



Killing of, for food prohibited 232 



Learning to swim 125 



Locomotion of, on land 125 



Number of, at a birth 143 



Podding of 124 



