FUR SEALS AND OTHER LIFE, PRIBILOF ISLANDS, I914. 15I 



1875 U. S. Treasury Department. Special Agents Division. 



A report upon the condition of affairs in the Territory of Alaska. By Henry W. Elliott, 

 special agent Treasury Department. Washington, 1875. 277 p. (Published also as part 

 of 44th Cong., ist sess., House Misc. Doc. 83.) 



1876 U. S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. 



The Alaska commercial company . . . Report . . . [Relating to the lease made between 

 the United States and the Alaska commercial company, of the right to kill fm- seals on 

 the islands of St. George and St. Paul, in Alaska]. Washington, 1876. 143 p. (44th 

 Cong., ist sess., House Rept. 623.) 

 U. S. Congress. House. 



. . . Seal-fisheries in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in 

 response to resolution of the House of Representatives, information relative to the seal- 

 fisheries of Alaska. [Washington, 1876. 478 p.] (44th Cong., ist sess., House Ex. Doc. 

 83.) Contains: "A complete list of papers on file in the office of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury, in the Alaska business since the date of the lease of the Alaska Commercial Com- 

 pany, August 3, 1870, to the present date." 



1880 Allen, Joel Asaph. 



History of North American Pinnipeds. A monograph of the walruses, sea-lions, sea-bears, 

 and seals of North America. Washington, 1880. xvi, 785 p. (Department of the Interior. 

 U. S. Geological and Geographical survey of the territories. Misc. pub. no. 12.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate 

 of March g, 1880, the report of Capt. Bailey upon the number, occupation, and condition 

 of the people of Alaska; the report of the Supervising Surgeon General Marine Hospital 

 Service on the same subject; also report of Special Agent Otis upon the illicit traffic in 

 rum and firearms. Washington, 1880. 7 p. (46th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Ex. Doc. 132.) 



1881 U. S. Revenue-Cutter Service. 



Report of the cruise of the U. S. revenue steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean, by Capt. 



C. L. Hooper . . . Washington, 1881. 71 p. plates, fold, chart, fold, tables. 

 Elliott, Henry W. 



. . . The history and present condition of the fishery industries . . . The seal-islands of 



Alaska. Washington, 1881. 176 p. illus., xxix pi. 2 fold. maps. (Tenth Census of the 



United States.) 

 Taylor, W. B. 



Letter published in the Wenona (Illinois) Index, October 20, 27, and November 3, 1881; 



Descriptive of a trip to the seal islands of Alaska. Towards the North Pole. The ocean, 



the sea, the natives (Alutes). The seal, skins, etc. Wenona Index Extra. 



1882 Elliott, Henry Wood. 



... A monograph of the seal islands of Alaska. Reprinted, with additions, from the 

 report on the fishery industries of the tenth census. Washington, 1882. 4 p. 1., 3-176 p. 

 illus., XXIX pi. 2 fold. maps. (U. S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Special bulletin 

 176.) 



1883 U. S. Revenue-Cutter Service. 



Cruise of the revenue steamer Corwin in Alaska and the N. W. Arctic Ocean in 1881 . . . 



Notes and memoranda . . . Washington, 1883. 120 p. front, illus., plates (partly col.) 



[Treasiuy Dept. Doc. 429.] 

 Swan, James G. 



Report of investigations at Neah Bay, Wash. , respecting the habits of fur seals of that vicinity, 



and to arrange for procuring specimensof skeletons of Cetacea. {In Bulletin of the United 



States Fish Commission for 1883. Washington, 1883. Vol. in, p. 201-207.) 



1884 Elliott, Henry Wood. 



Report on the seal islands of Alaska, by Henry W. Elliott. {In U. S. Census Office. loth 

 census, 1880. [Census reports] Washington, 1884. [v 8] 2 p. 1., 3-188 p. illus., plates, 

 fold, maps.) 



