TABLE OF CONTENTS. VII 



PART II. 



Fur-seal hunting in the Southern Hemispherb. ^^g«^ 



History of.' 



Instances of Government protection : ^^* 



Falkland Islands 



Mas-a-fuera 



Juan Fernandez ■ 



Galapagos Islands 



St. Felix, St. Ambrose, St. Marys Islands, etc ^^o 



Tierradel Fuego and tbe^Patagonian Coasts 396 



Lobos Island 



Soutb Shetland Islands ^^° 



South Georgia Island ^^ 



Sandwich Land 



Tristan da Cunha Islands and Gough Island ^^ 



Prince Edward and Crozct Islands ^00 



Kerguelen Land 



Borders Island, Antipodes Islands, Bounty Islands, Auckland Islands, etc. 401 



St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands ^^^ 



West Coast of South Africa and adjacent islands 403 



Cape of Good Hope ^^^ 



... 404 



Goverumeut regniations 



PART III. 



The Alaskan fur-seal and pelagic sealing: 



Pribilof Islands ^^ 



Migration of seals ^ 



Commander Islands 



Islands of Southern California ^06 



Guadalupe Island ^ 



Habits of Alaskan fur-seals *06 



Mode of propagation ---■ J^ 



Size of PribUof herd ^^J 



Decline due to pelagic sealing 407 



Wasteful character of pelagic sealing 408 



Proportion of wounded seals lost 



Pelagic catch 90 per cent females *09 



Dead pups 



Eeasons why females are killed 



Decrease due to pelagic sealing 



Results of pelagic sealing ^^^ 



STATEMENTS AND LETTERS OF NATURALISTS. 



Statement by Prof. T. H. Huxley -' ^|1 



Deposition by Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater *J^ 



Circular letter of Dr. C. Hart Merriam 41* 



Reply of Dr. Alphonse Milne Edwards ^1° 



Reply of Dr. Alfred Nehring 



Reply of Prof. Robert CoUett *^J 



Reply of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub ^^ 



Reply of Prof. Count Tommaso Salvador! 4-^ 



Reply of Dr. Leopold von Schrenck *^^ 



Reply of Dr. Henry H. GiglioU 



