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seventy-five to eifi^hty per cent.^ Mr. Emil Teicli- Testimony of 



■^ o ./ 1 British furriers. 



maim, of the firm of C. M. Lampson & Co., and 

 formerly a member of the firm of Martin & Teicli- 

 mann, mentioned above, states "that practically 

 the whole of the adult, Northwest catch, seals 

 were the skins of female seals. "^ Mr. Henry 

 Poland, head of the London fur firm of P. R. 

 Poland & Son, says that a very large proportion 

 of the adult skins of the Northwest catch are 

 "obviously the skins of female animals."^ Mr. 

 George Rice, engaged for twenty-seven years in 

 the dressing and dyeing of seal skins in the city of 

 London, and who has handled a large proportion 

 of the Northwest skins, says: "That in the North- 

 west catch from eighty-five to ninety per cent 

 of the skins are of the female animal."* And Mr. 

 William C. B. Stamp, who has been a London fur 

 merchant for thirty years, estimates the percent- 

 age of females in the catch of sealing vessels to 

 be "at least seventy-five percent" and probably 

 more.^ All the above prominent English fun-iers 

 are subjects of Her Britannic Majesty. George 

 Bantle, wdio has been a sorter and packer of raw 

 seal skins for twenty years, gives the principal 

 characteristics by which the skins of the two 



1 Vol. II, p. 569. 



2Vol. 11, p. 581. 



3 Vol. II, p. 571. 



" Vol. II, p. 573. See also Isaac Liebes, Vol. II, p. 453. 



^Vol. II, p. 575. 



