CONTENTS. XIII 



Fax*. 



Joint Report — Contir.ued. 



Meetings of Commission 308 



Duty to protect seal herd 309 



Conclusions reached 309 



Decrease of seal herd 309 



Further joint report impossible 309-310 



Keport of the United States Bering Sea. Commissioners: 



Appointment 311 



Appointment of British Commissioners 311-312 



Oject of Commission 312 



Provisions of agreement 312 



Conduct of investigation 313 



Proceed to Bering Sea 313 



Joint investigations 313 



Sources of information 313-314 



Keturn 314 



Formal appointment 314 



Arrangement as to meetings of Joint Commission 314-315 



Meetings of Joint Commission 315 



Meetings held without formal records 315-316 



Meetings continued 316 



Disagreement 316 



Article IX of treaty 316 



Application of Article IX 316-317 



Result of such ajiplication 317 



Article IX interpreted by British Commissioners 317-318 



Disagreement as to application 318 



Report of Joint Commission 318 



Necessity of separate report 318-319 



The Bering Sea fur-seal 319 



Divisions of mammals 319 



Professor Flower 320 



Distinction between fur-seals and hair-seals 320-321 



Fur-seals 321-322 



Principal facts in the life history of the fur-seal 322 



Homes of the fur-seal 322-323 



Southward migration 323 



Piibilof and Commander herds do not mingle 323-324 



Difference of iielage of Alaskan and Russian fur-seals 324 



Extent of migration 324 



Course of northward migration 324 



Arrival of breeding males at island 325 



Battles on the rookeries 325 



Arrival and departure of bachelor seals 325 



Arrival of cows 325-326 



Birth of the young ,.,. 826 



