II CONTENTS. 



Report for 1895 of J. B. Crowley Continued. Page. 



Exhibit B 43 



Seals killed on St. Paul, 1895.. 43 



Seals killed on St, George, 1895 44 



Exhibit C. Receipts for skins shipped 44 



D. Distribution community fund 45 



JOSEPH MURRAY'S REPORT ON SEALS, 1894. 



Report for 1894, on seal life, of Special Agent Joseph Murray 47 



1. Climate 48 



2. Seals, habits, etc 49 



3. Driving and killing 52 



4. Dead pups 55, 67 



5. Decrease of seals, lack of male life not the cause 62 



6. Deposition of chief of Commander Islands 80 



7. Circular letter, Dr. C. H. Merriam 



8. Replies to letter of Dr. Merriam_ 86 



9. Retrospective and explanatory 



10. Pelagic sealing and diplomacy 103 



11. Pelagic sealing, close season, etc 116 



APPENDIX TO MURRAY'S REPORT FOR is4. 

 Subjects: 



Pelagic sealing . . 127, 180 



Habits and management of seals and pelagic sealing. 131 



Habits and management of seals and rules of fur companies 136 



Pribilof rookeries 141 



Management of killing and pelagic sealing. 143 



Management on islands pelagic sealing _ . . 145 



Pelagic sealing, Pribilof rookeries 151 



Dead pups 162 



Destruction of female seals 175, 181. 243, 263, 267, 291 



General seal-skin industry 180, 185, 209 



Cruise of the Louis Olsen in Bering Sea, by A. B. Alexander .. 196 



Decrease of seals 217, 248, 270, 277. 283, 338 



Cause of decrease in seal herd 344 



Increase of sealing fleet 275 



Tables of seals killed on rookeries 301 



Past and future of fur seal, by Joseph Stanley-Brown 320 



Award of Tribunal of Arbitration 330 



Letter transmitting Elliott's report to State Department ._ 346 



Mr. Phelps's argument before Tribunal 347 



Index to Depositions. 



Index of names of persons whose depositions, etc., in whole or in part, are 

 cited in the appendix to Murray's report for 1894: 



Abbey, C. A.. 250,283 



Ackerly.J.C.S 163 



Adams. George.... 218,251,263 



Adair . 250,260,263,291 



Akatoo.. 283,291 



Alexander. A. B.. 196,218,260,283 



Alexandroff, J 277 



Allen, Dr 218.258 



Allis, W. C-... 225 



American Commissioners 217, 225, 239, 275 



Anderson. A 267,270 



Anderson, C. H : 225 



Anderson, C. T 



Anderson, Peter 248 



Andrieus, H.. 248,283 



Apokshee, N-. 



Armstroiig, James. 218 



Armstrong, John 224,225 



Artomanoff . Kerrick _ . 145, 219, 226 



