74 MANAGEMENT. 



Comparisons of is the result of a decreased birth rate caused by 



harems 1870 and J 



1890 irrelevant, pelagic sealing. The United States, however, 



deny that harems have increased "from four to 



eight times" over their size in 1870-1874. 



(Sec. 54.) 



Thecnrtaiiment Mr. Henry W. Elliott, who is relied on as an 



of H. W. Elliott's J 



statement. authority in this matter by the Commissioners to 



show that the harems averaged from 5 to 20 

 cows in 1874 (Sec. 293), states, in the same pas- 

 sage from which the quotation used in the Report 

 has been extracted, that there are "many in- 

 stances where 45 or 50 females are under the 

 charge of one male," and he closes his sentence 

 by stating that the average given is not entirely 

 satisfactory to himself. 1 This curtailment of Mr. 

 Elliott's statement is in flagrant violation of the 

 Commissioners' Letter of Instructions, in which 

 Lord Salisbury says: "I need scarcely remind 

 you that your investigation should be carried on 

 with strict impartiality" (p. 2). 



narenis in 1891. The Report fails to give any testimony to show 

 how many females constituted a harem in 1891? 

 and makes the statement, wholly unsubstantiated 

 by proof, that the harems have increased in size 

 "from four to eight fold." (Sec. 54.) 



Surplus of virile The present surplus of virile males has been 



males. 



fully treated of in the Case of the United States, 2 



i United States Census Report. 1880, p. 36. 

 8 Case of the United States, p. 172. 



