INDEX. 473 



Pelagic sealing Continued. ' i 



Hainlin. 0. 8., Acting socn-tMi \ <!' the Treasury, correspondence 316, 



:;:r>, 338, 343, 'Ml, 352, 369, 370, 376, 377, 379, 381 



Hardie, John, correspondence , < 341 



Increase of, in Russian and Japanese waters 332 



Liebes, II. , correspondence 355 



Mi-Gee, John J.. correspondence 339 



Manner of 125 



Milne, A. R., correspondence 342, 362, 372 



Gluey, Richard, Secretary of State, correspondence 335, 



349, 350, 352, 354, 358, 359. 361, 36fi, 367, 371. 380, 381 



Opinions of Indian sealers on decrease of seals by 233 



Opinions of sealers regarding protection from 76 



Opinions of white sealers on decrease of seals by 226 



Pauncefote, Julian, ambassador, correspondence 366, 371, 380, 381 



Percentage of seals lost by 216 



Results of 239 



Roberts, W. P., United States consul, correspondence 329 



Seals, percentage lost of those struck by hunters 206 



Skins sold as result of, 1872-1891 231 



Sole cause of decrease of seals, opinions of experts 173 



Sole cause of decrease of seals, opinions of Indian hunters 233 



Somow, A., Russian charge" d'affaires, correspondence 345, 346 



Stanley-Brown, J., correspondence 360 



Uhl, Edwin F., Acting Secretary of State, correspondence 328 



Wike, S., Acting Secretary of the Treasury, correspondence 338 



348, 349, 352, 355, 357, 358, 359, 360, 365, 368 



Pelagic sekling and diplomacy 59 



Percentage lost of seals struck by pelagic hunters 206 



Persons engaged in the fabrication of seal-skins in London 147 



Phelps, E. J ., argument before the Paris tribunal 303 



Plans suggested for preservation of seals 299 



Potlatch 399 



Pracht, Max, special agent, report on salmon fisheries of Alaska 385 



Pribilof Islands. (See also St. Paul Island, St. George Island.) 



Climatic conditions 4, 88, 120 



Geographical situation 3,88 



Meteorological 88 



Origin 4 



Otter , 3 



St. George 3 



St. Paul 3 



Seals 4 



Seals on, in 1873 15 



Skins, seal, decrease in size of 165 



Statistics, official, of seals taken, 1890-1894 73 



Statistics, official, of seals taken for all purposes by Alaska Commercial 



Company '. 258-274 



Temperature, average 4 



Walrus 3 



Prices of seal skins, average, 1881-1889 163 



Prices of skins taken at sea 284 



Protection of salmon fisheries 410-418 



Pups: 



Characteristics of 122 



Dead, on islands, statement of British Bering Sea commissioners 23 



Dead, on rookeries 11,31,32,83,100,101,109,118 



Dead, time of appearance on rookeries 31 



Learning to swim 122 



Starvation of 11, 34, 83 



Raids 011 rookeries not cause of decrease of seals 195 



Reasons why pregnant females are taken 202 



Recommendations for preservation of seals 81 



Reeve, F. A., Acting Solicitor of the Treasury, opinion regarding aliens con- 

 trolling fisheries 395 



Regulation, alternative method of, suggested by British Bering Sea commis- 

 sioners , 63 



Regulations : 



Paris, do not protect seals 80 



Proposed, by Bering Sea commissioners 62 



