194 DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE 



3[r. Lothro}) to Mr. Bayard. 



No. IGl.] Legation of the United States, 



St. Fetershurg, Fehruary 22, 1888. (Keceivetl March 12.) 

 Sir: Your dispatch, No, 110, rchitive to the protection of fur-bearing 

 seals in the Behring Sea, has just reached me, and I liave lost no time 

 in making known to the Imperial Government your wislies respecting 

 the cooperation of tlie Eussian Ambassador in London with Mr. Phelps 

 on tbis subiect. 



Yery truly, etc., 



Geo. Y. N. Lothrop. 



Mr. Lothrop to Mr. Bayard. 



No. 164.] Legation of the United States, 



St. Petersburg, March 12, 1888. (Received April 2.) 

 Sir: Immediately upon the receipt of your dispatch No. 110 I com- 

 municated to Mr. de Giers the suggestions therein contained. In reply 

 he now informs me that the Imperial Government, acting thereon, lias 

 instructed Mr. de Staal, its Ambassador in Loudon, at once to put him- 

 self into conunnuication with Mr. Phelps, and to do his best to promote 

 tbe common object of the two governments. I am also recpiested to 

 make this action known to you. 

 Yery truly, etc., 



Geo. Y. N. Lothrop. 



Mr. Magee to Mr. Bayard. 



No. 118.] Legation of the United States, 



StocMolm, March 20, 1888. (Received April 9.) 



Sir: I am in receipt this p. m. of the response to my note (written 

 under your instruction of <late September 17, 1887), inviting the Gov- 

 ernment of the United Kingdoms to join in an arrangement whereby 

 an end would be put to the indiscriminate killing of seals in the Ber- 

 ing Sea. 



The Royal Government having no interest in seal fisheries. His Maj- 

 esty thinks there is no need to take part in any treaty or arrangement 

 in reference thereto on the part of the United Kingdoms. He, however, 

 expresses the desire that a mutually beiieticial accord may be arrived 

 at between the interested powers, and that the same may be maintained 

 with a reservation that powers not at present interested may join in 

 such an arrangement in the future if they desire. 



At present neitlier Sweden nor Norway engages in seal-fishing in 

 Behring Sea oi- adjacent waters. 

 1 have, etc., 



lluFus Magee. 



