VI TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



First, New Propositions, etc. — Continued. 



Management as an alleged cause of decrease — Continued. Page 



Irrelevancy of the first division 71 



Unfairness of statements as to Russian period 71 



The number of seals killed from 1860 to 1865 73 



Second division of evidence 73 



Comparisons of harems, 1870 and 1890, irrelevant 73 



The curtailment of H. W. Elliott's statement 74 



Harems in 1891 74 



Surplus of virile males 74 



Size of harems in 1892 75 



Alleged summary of a report of H. W. Elliott in 1890 75 



Alleged recognition of decrease by lessees 76 



Average weights of Alaskan catch, 1876-1889 77 



Number of seals taken from Northeast Point 77 



Alleged resort to reserved areas in 1879 78 



No hauling grounds ever reserved 79 



Overdriving and redriving subsequent to 1880, irrelevant 79 



Denial of decrease prior to 1880 79 



Pelagic sealing. 



The Report, an apology for pelagic sealing 80 



1. That the percentage of female seals in pelagic catch is not large. 



The Indian evidence submitted 80 



Testimony of interested parties submitted 81 



Percentage of females admitted to be taken 81 



Statements inconsistent with the Report 81 



The statements in the Report denied 82 



Capt. Hooper's investigations, summer of 1892 83 



Catches of vessels seized by Russia, 1892; 90 per cent females 83 



Examination of pelagic catches, 1892 83 



Proportion of females taken at sea prior to 1870 84 



2. That pelagic sealing in Bering Sea is not as destructive to seal life 



as pelagic sealing in the North Pacific. 



Grounds for the Report's statements 84 



Pregnant females 85 



Nursing females 85 



Capt. Hooper's investigations. 1892 85 



Examination of seals by C. H. Townsend, 1892 86 



Dead pups on the rookeries 86 



Cause of death 87 



Mr. Blaine's note of March 1, 1890 88 



Causes of death alleged in the Report ,. 89 



1. Driving and killing of the mothers 89 



2. An epidemic 89 



3. Pups crushed in stampedes 90 



