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Table showing the record and system of recording salted fur-seal skin measurements and 

 weights which was adopted by Special Agents Elliott and Gallagher in the Goverjwunt 

 salt house Julii29, 1913, luhen making this record of those greemveights and salt tveights 

 aad measurements of 400 fur-seal skins taken by order of Bureau of Fviheries on the island 

 of St. Paul, July 7, 7P;.i— Continued. 



' No green weight; Northeast Point skin. 



Note. — The following annotation was made by Walter I. Lemb- 

 key on his official record of the weights of the 400 sealskins listed 

 and measured and weighed above, all taken in the killing of July 7, 

 1913: 



All seals killed to-day dripping wet, and skins loaded with water. Steady rain, with 

 fog. Southeast wind. To determine percentage of moisture in skins to-day, 12 

 skins were weighed wet, the moisture then taken from them until the skins were 

 nearly dry, and the same skins weighed again. The aggregate wet weight was 90 

 pounds 1.5 ounces. The aggregate dry weight was 79 pounds 14.5 ounces: the aggre- 

 gate loss, 10 pounds 3 ounces, or 11 per cent. All weights to-day, therefore, should be 

 considered as averaging 11 per cent above normal weight. 



This statement of Mr. Lembkey orders a decrease of 10 per cent 

 in the green weights, which makes the increased weight of the salt- 

 cured skins 10 per cent greater than the figures show. For instance, 

 bundle No. 1 weighs 1-3 pounds 14 ounces; 10 per cent off from the 



