COMPOSITION OF PELAGIC CATCH. 



417 



City and County of New York, ss: 



On this 28th day of December, 1892, personally appeared before me 

 Alfred Fraser, the person whose name is signed to the foregoing, and 

 acknowledged to me that he executed the same. 



[seal.] Edwin B. Woods, 



Notary Public, Kings Co.; Certificate filed in N. T. Co. 



STATEMENT OF C. W. MARTIN & SONS, LONDON, ON THE COMPOSI- 

 TION OF A CERTAIN PELAGIC CATCH OF SEALSKINS. 



[C. W.Martin & Sons; telegraphic address, Tinmar, London.] 



4 Lambeth Hill, Queen Victoria St., E. C, 



London, December, 1892. 

 We have made a careful examination of the sex of each one of the 

 fur-seal skins designated in the annexed report and hereby certify the 

 correctness of the results given therein. We are of [the] opinion, based 

 upon the numerous holes found in them, that almost all, if not all, of 

 these skins were taken from seals which were killed in the sea by shot or 

 spear. We are informed by Messrs. C. M. Lampson & Company that these 

 skins were received by them for account of the Russian Government 

 through their Mr. Fraser, to whom they were consigned, in the latter 

 part of the summer of 1892, at San Francisco, from Petropavlovsk by 

 the Eussian Sealskin Company. The casks in which they were re- 

 ceived, were numbered one to twenty-one, and were marked as fol- 



lows: "K.S. S. Co.<tJ>» 



C. W. Martin & Sons. 



Report on 1,028 salted fur-seal shins as to sex, examined November 16th, 22d, and 



2Sd, 1892. 



E. S. S. Co. 



% 



Anrania, 



Alaska, 



cfc. 1-21. 



Assortment. 



2 wigs 



10 miags 



50 mid and sms 



322 smalls 



267 la. pups 



157 mid. " 



35 sm. " 



1 ex. sm. pup....... 



2 la. mids. cut 



3 mids. " 



17 mid. and sms. cut 

 71 sms " " " 



48 la. pups 



37 mid. " 



5 sm. " 



1 faulty 



1,028 



Ex- 

 amined. 



2 



10 



50 



322 



267 



157 



35 



1 



2 



3 



17 



71 



48 



37 



5 



1 



Doubtful. 



Male. 



Female. 



37 

 286 

 232 

 127 



27 



861 



Per cent. 



Doubtful 14.58 



Male 1.66 



Female 83.76 



100 



London, November 26th, 1892, 



C. W. Martin & Sons. 

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