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such a, valuable industr}^ could not in some way cauadiau recog- 

 nition, 

 be protected." 



Mr. Walter E. Martin, head of the firm of C. Opinions of Loh- 



(ton furriers. 



W. Martin & Sons, already quoted, says "that 

 the preservation of the seal herds found in the 

 North Pacific regions is necessary to the contin- 

 uance of the fur-seal business, as those herds are 

 the principal sources of supply of sealskins left 

 in the world, and from his general knowledge of 

 the customs of that business deponent feels jus- 

 tified in expressing the opinion that stringent 

 regulations of some kind are necessary in order 

 to prevent those herds from disappearing like 

 herds which formerly existed in large numbers 

 in the South Pacific seas." ^ 



Sir George Curtis Lampson, already men- 

 tioned as the senior member of the house of C. 

 M. Lampson & Co., says that he "has no doubt 

 that it is necessary in order to maintain the 

 industry that steps should be taken to preserve 

 the existence of the seal herd in the North 

 Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea from the fate 

 which has overtaken the herds in the south 

 seas."^ The said firm of Lampson & Co., in a 

 letter to the Earl of Iddesleigh, First Lord of 

 Her Majesty's Treasury, dated at London, 



1 Walter E. Martin, Vol. II, p. 570. 



2 Sir George C. Lami^son, Vol. II, p. 566. 



