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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 



U. a GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGEAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE TEBBIT0RIE8 

 F. V. HAYDEN, Geologist-in-Chabg 



MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS No. 12 





HISTORY 



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PINNIPEDS 



A MONOGRAPH OF THE 



WALRUSES, SEA-LIONS, SEA-BEARS 



AND 



SEALS 



OF 



NORTH ^MEHIOj^ 



By JOEL ASAPH ALLEN 



Ataistant in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Camhidge 

 Special Collaborator of the Survey 



WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICK 



1880 



