428 SUBJECT-INDEX OF REPORTS. 



Bering Sea Oomniissiou ^Coutinued. Page. 



Disagreement as to application of Article ix 318 



Disagreement of 316 



Formal appointment of 314 



Meetings of 315 



Meetings of, held without formal records 315 



Necessity of sej)arate report 318 



Object of 312 



Proceed to Bering Sea 313 



Reports of 305 



Return of 314 



Sources of information of 308, 313 



Visit rookeries 333 



Birthrate 346 



Explanation of diagrams of 352 



How, may he lessened 349 



Interference with, injurious 348 



Not affected by killing certain number of males 349 



On what, dejjcnds 351 



Birth. (See Pups.) 



British Commissioners, appointment of 311 



Bulls : 



Age at which, go on breeding grounds 328 



Arrival of, at islands 325, 385 



Battling of 325 



Comparative size of cows and 327 



Copulation 327 



No lack of 349 



Catch of sealing vessels 365 



Table of 366 



Causes of decrease. {See Decrease.) 



Close season 376 



C. M. Lampsou & Co., letter of 367 



Must practically prohibit...: 376 



Coition. (See Bulls.) 



Commander fur-seals: 



Difference between Alaskan fur-seals and 324 



Do not intermingle with Alaskan 323 



Commissioners. (See American Commissioners and British Conmiissioners.) 



Conclusion as to food and feeding 396 



Conclusions of American Commissioners 379 



Condition of rookeries. (See Rookeries.) 



Copulation. (See Bulls) 327 



Cows: 



Age of puberty in 328 



Arrival of, at islands 325,385 



