CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Letters of Tr.a.nsmittal ii 



Letter of Submittal 12 



Introduction 13 



Personnel and instructions ' 13 



Investigations by Canada and Japan i j 



Itinerary 15 



Impartial nature of the investigation 16 



Acknowledgments 16 



The Pribilof Islands 17 



General description x-j 



Vegetation 18 



Climate 18 



Character and Habits op the Fur Seal in Brief 18 



General characteristics 18 



Range 18 



Breeding habits 19 



Habits of bachelors 20 



Age of seals 20 



Sealing History in Brief 21 



Russian management 21 



American occupation and the leasing system 21 



The growth of pelagic sealing 22 



The Paris Tribunal and the modus vivendi 22 



Special investigations 23 



Sealing under Government management 24 



The law of 1910 24 



The treaty suspending pelagic sealing 24 



The law of 1912 24 



Revenue from fur seals 25 



The Census of the Herd in 1914 25 



The nature of the census 25 



The count of harems 23 



Preliminary' counts 26 



Height of season counts , 26 



Harem charts 27 



The count of idle and young bulls 28 



The count of half bulls 28 



The count of bachelors 28 



The covmt of pups 29 



Importance of the count 29 



The method of counting pups 30 



The count of dead pups 31 



Participants in the count, and results 31 



The estimates 32 



Yearlings 33 



Two-year-olds 33 



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