IV TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Russian correspondence, etc. — Continued. Page. 



Part II. Illustrating Kussiau management on tlie Seal Islands 80-90 



Board to Chief Manager, April 6, 1817 80 



Board to Chief Manager, March 8, 1843 81 



Board to Captain Rudakof, April 22, 1853 82 



Board to Chief Manager, April 24, 1854 82 



Board to Chief Manager, November 8, 1854 83 



Board to Chief Manager, June 5, 1857 84 



Chief Manager to Board, October 7, 1857 84 



Chief Manager to Board, January 13, 1859 86 



Chief Manager to Board, May 13, 1860 86 



Chief Manager to Board, July 16, 1863 88 



Chief Manager to Manager of St. Paul, May 1, 1864 89 



Notice issued by the United States Grovernment in 1845 91 



Action of the United States Government relative to Alaska since the cession. 92-124 



Laws enacted by Congress 92-99 



Action of the Executive 99-113 



Decisions of the United States courts 113-124 



Notes on the fur industry of Bering Sea and the adjoining region 125-129 



Revenue derived from the Alaskan seal herd 130 



Diplomatic correspondence 131-364 



Correspondence of the years 1822-1825 relative to the ukase of 1821 and 



to the treaties of 1824 and 1825 132-162 



Correspondence between the United States and Great Britain relative to 



the seizure of British sealing vessels in Bering Sea in 1886 and 1867.. 153-168 

 Correspondence relative to proposed international measures for the pro- 

 tection of fur-seals (1887-1888) '. 168-194 



Correspondence relative to and growing out of the seizure of British seal- 

 ing vessels in Bering Sea in 1889 (August 24, 1889, to January 22, 1890) . 195-203 

 Correspondence relative to proposed international measures for the pro- 

 tection of fur-seals— continued— (February 10, 1890, to June 27, 1890) . 204-223 

 Correspondence relative to the jurisdictional rights in Bering Sea for- 

 merly possessed by Russia and transferred to the United States by the 



treaty of 1867 (Mr. Blaine's note of June 30, 1890) 224-235 



Correspondence relative to Great Britain's willingness to enter into a con- 

 vention for the protection of fur-seals (June 30, 1890, to July 18, 1890). 236-241 

 Correspondence relative to the jurisdictional rights in Bering Sea for- 

 merly possessed by Russia and transferred to the United States by the 



treaty of 1867— continued— (August 2, 1890, to April 14, 1891) 242-297 



Correspondence relative to the modus vivendi of 1891 and to the negoti- 

 ations for arbitration (April 20, 1^591, to February 8, 1892) 298-350 



Correspondence relative to the modus vivendi of 1892 (February 9, 1892, 



to March 26, 1892) 351-364 



(For alphabetical list of notes see Index, " Diplomatic Correspondence.") 



ARTICLE BY DR. J. A. ALLEN. 

 Introduction 365 



Synopsis of the Pinnipeds, or Seals and Walruses, in relation to their commercial history 



and products. 



Common seal, eared seal, and walrus 367 



Dependence on the land 367 



