158 BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



1897 U. S. President. 



Protection of fur-seal herd in Alaska. Message from the President of the United States, 

 transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 17th instant, a report from the Sec- 

 retary of State touching the reply of the British Government in regard to failure of the 

 negotiations of the Paris tribunal to protect the fm--seal herd of Alaska. February 20, 



1897. [Washington, 1897] 2 p. (S4th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. 142.) 

 U. S. Department of State. 



Agreement between United States and Russia for modus vivendi in relation to fur-seal 



May 4, 

 fisheries in Bering Sea and north Pacific Ocean. Signed Washington . ■■ ^ 1894, pro- 

 claimed May 12, 1894 [reprint, Washington, 1897]. 4 p. [English and French.] 

 U. S. Treasury Department. 



Regulations governing vessels employed in fur-seal fishing and sea-otter hunting during 

 season of 1897. Washington, 1897. 12 p. (Treasurj^ Depart. Doc. 1920.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department. 



Statistical tables. Fur-seal catch, season of 1896. List of vessels engaged, with other sta- 

 tistical information showing total pelagic catches from American and Asiatic herds since 

 1868 and land catch, Pribilof Islands, since 1870, etc. Washington, 1897. 38 p. (Treas- 

 luy Depart. Doc. 1932.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department. 



Prohibition of killing of fur seals in north Pacific Ocean and of importation of fur-seal skins 

 taken in such waters. Dec. 30, 1897. (Treasury Department, Division of Special Agents. 

 Dept. circular 214.) 

 Same {In Treas. Dept. Fiu- seals, fiu'-seal islands of north Pacific Ocean, 1898 [1899]. Pt. i, 

 p. 246-248.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department, Revenue-Cutter Service. 



Regulations governing vessels employed in fiu--seal fishing and sea-otter hunting during 

 the season of 1897. Washington, 1897. 12 p. (Treasury Dept. Doc. 1920.) 

 U. S. Treasiuy Department. 



Answer to resolution relative to revenue derived from the North American Commercial Com- 

 pany by rental of seal islands of Alaska. Jan. 23, 1897. 12 p. (54th Cong., 2nd sess. 

 Senate Doc. 81.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department, Special Agents Division. 



Report on the rookeries of the Commander Islands, season of 1897, by Leonhard Stejneger. 

 Washington, 1897. 17 p. (On verso of t. -p.: Treasury Depart. Doc. 1997. Office of the 

 Secretar>^ Special Agents Division.) 



1898 Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald Edwin Hamilton. 



Report by Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton on his mission to the Russian seal islands in 1897. 

 [London, 1898.] 67 p., map. (Appendices: i. Extract from report of N. C. Waxmuth, 

 acting commander of the Kommandorski Islands, dated August, 1897 (section m). 

 n. Drives at the Commander Islands in 1897. in. Memorandum of seals taken on the 

 "Rookeries" by vessels sailing from or putting in to Japanese ports (comp. by H. J. Snow, 

 of Yokohama), iv. Statement of prices obtained at the fur seal-skin sales on the 9th 

 December, 1897 (C. M. Lampson and Co.). v. List of photographs, vi. Map of North 

 Rookery, Bering Island, by Leonhard Stejneger.) 

 Great Britain. 



Joint Statement of conclusions signed by the British, Canadian, and United States delegates 

 respecting the fur-seal herd frequenting the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea. London, 



1898. 5 p. 



International Bureau of the American Republics. 



. . . Alaska. (Handbook No. 84, 1S97.) [Washington, 1898] 133 p. front (fold. map). 

 ([U. S.] 55th Cong.. 2d sess.. Senate Doc. 178, pt. 13.) 



