PERCENTAGE OF COWS IN CATCH. 83 



this subject the report of Capt. C. L. Hooper, Capt. Hooper's 



investigations, 



U. S. R M., who cruised in Bering Sea during summer of 1892, 

 the summer of 1892 and under the direction of the 

 Government of the United States made a series of 

 systematic observations as to the distribution and 

 classes of seals found in those waters, for which 

 purpose he took a limited number of seals at sea. 1 

 The result of his observations and experiments 

 was that, of 41 seals shot and secured, 29 



Catches of ves- 



were females. Mr. Malowanski, the agent of 8 ? lss , e i^ d !$ Ru8 ~ 



' & sia, 1892, 90 per 



the Russian Sealskin Company on the Com- ceut females - 

 mander Islands, examined about 2,700 skins 

 taken from sealing schooners, seized in the 

 neighborhood of those islands by the Russian 

 authorities during the summer of 1892, and 

 found that over 90 per cent were the skins of 

 female seals. 2 



This is also verified by Mr. Grebnitzki, 3 the 

 Russian official in charge of the Commander 

 Islands, and by an examination of over 1,000 of 

 the same skins specially made in London. 4 The Examination of 



L J pelagic catches, 



depositions of the expert furrier Mr. Behlow, 1892 - 

 who has examined the catches of a number of 

 sealing schooners entered at the port of San 

 Francisco during the summer and fall of 1892, 



1 Report of Capt. C L. Hooper, post table facing p. 219, 



2 John Malowanski, post p. 374. 

 3 N. A. Grebnitzki, post p. 366. 



4 Statement by C. W« Martin & Sons, post p. 417. 



