SUBJECT-INDEX 600 



Sealing fleet: p age> 



Comparison of increase of, with decrease 327 



Did not enter Bering Sea before decrease began 327 



Increase of 327 



Sealing in the water. ((See Pelagic sealing.) 



Sealing vessels : 



Age of. (See Seal-skin industry; Canadian investment in 1890.) 



Sealeries. (See Seals.) 



Seal fisheries. (See Seals.) 



Seals: (See also Alaskan seal herd.) 



Are domestic animals. (S*.e Control and domestication.) 



Classification of 103 



Driving of. (See Driving.) 

 Food of. (See Cows: Food.) 



How decrease of, determined 91 



How increase of, determined 9J 



Like domestic cattle. (See Control and domestication.) 



Male, lack of, not cause of decrease 291 



Male, not injured by redri ving 247 



Male, sufficient, preserved for breeding purposes 291 



Management of 211-268 



Manner of taking, <>n the islands. (See Driving and killing.) 



Nursing females, desf met ion of, by pelagic sealing 451 



Of Tierra del Fuego \ qo 



Pregnant females, destruction of, by pelagic sealing 129 



Protection of. (See Protection.) 



Sex of, can not be distinguished in the water 366 



Speed of, while swimming 157 



Wounding of, by pelagic sealing 402 



Seals, Antarctic. (Sec Autarctic seals.) 



Seals, female — 



Eighty to ninety per cent of pelagic catch are. (See British furriers, 



testimony of, as to destruction of female seals.) 

 Percentage of, taken by pelagic sealers 410 



Seals lost by sinking 404 



Seals of the Guadalupe Islands, a different species from Alaskan seals 208 



Seals, pregnant females, destruction of, by pelagic sealers ► 429 



Seal-skin industry 529 



Dependence on Alaskan herd 54q 



Growth of 534 



In France 534 



In Great Britain 534 



In Great Britain, capital invested in 581 



In Great Britain, number of employes in 534 



In the past, markets for 534 



In the past, sources of supply for 529 



In the present, sources of supply 533 



In the United States 575 



Investments in 537 



Loss if herd destroyed 575 



Need of regular supply of skins for 535 



Number of persons employed in. (See Loss to United States, to Great 

 Britain, and to France.) 



Seal-skins : 



Cost of dressing and dyeing. (See Loss to Great Britain.) 

 Cost of manufacturing. (See Loss to United States.) 



39 b s 



