INDEX OF COUNTER CASE. 433 



British Commissioners — Continued. Pa^e. 



Disqualified for impartial investigation 46 



Distortion of statement of Elliott by 115 



Erroneous statement as to opinion of cause of dead pups 87 



Ignore seals lost by wounding 98 



Instructed to cooperate with American Commissioners 44 



Manner of conducting investigations 45 



Object of, in advancing winter habitat theory 101 



Keport of. (See Report of British Commissioners.) 



Secretary Blaine's note concerning 45 



Unfairness of, as to average catch per boat and per man 107 



" in close season proposed 127 



'* in discussing quota 72 



" regulations proposed by 122 



Bryant, Charles: 



As an authority in the Report 53 



Error in published statement of, used in Report Ill 



On aquatic coition 62 



" excessive killing „ 69 



" when cows enter water 58 



Report of, in 1875, and reasons for 69 



Bullets found in seals killed on the Islands 98 



Bulls: 



Do not resort to alleged winter habitat 101 



Range of, in winter 101 



Bundles of sealskins : 



Containing more than two skins would be observed 117 



Counting of 116 



Investigated by Maj . Williams 117 



Two skins only in each of 117 



Weight of 118 



" explained 118 



Canadian sealers. (See Pelagic sealers.) 



Carolena, American ownership of 130 



Case of the : 



Harriet 38 



Loriot 22 



Pearl 20 



Case of the United States : 



Deals chiefly, the matter with which 7 



Positions taken in, reasserted 135 



Catch, average. (See Average catch) 



Catch of sealing vessels. (See Pelagic sealing.) 



Change of habits : 



Alleged in report 106 



Change of rookeries. (See Change of rookeries.) 



Increased pelagic nature alleged 106 



u " an assumption 109 



" " partly based on error Ill 



Independent herds in Bering Sea unproven 109 



Change of rookeries : 



Based on hearsay 109 



Disproved Ill 



On Asiatic coast not visited by British Commissioners 110 



" unproven „ 110 



Robben Island experience disproves Ill 



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