20 TESTIMONY 



males was carried to tlie point in about 1885 wliere tliebirtli rate could 

 f ■ k ^^^ kt'cp lip the uecessary supply of mothers, and that 

 eries^diie^to destine- the equilibrium being once destroyed and the drain upou 

 tion of mother seals, tlic produciug" class increasing- from year to year from 

 that date* the present depleted condition of the rookeries has resulted 

 directly therefrom. 



Joseph Stanley Brown. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public in and for the Dis- 

 trict of (Jokuubia, this 9th day of May, 181)L'. 

 fL. s.l Sevellon a. Brown. 



Deposition of Joseph Stanley Broivn, (jeologist in U. S. (Jeologieal Sur- 

 vey, and special agent of Treasury. 



verification of rookery charts. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington., ss : 



Joseph Stanley Brown, being duly sworn, deposes and says: lam 

 36 years of age and a citizen of the United States; my residence is at 

 Mentor, Ohio; my occupation a geologist, in which capacity I amem- 



„ ., ., ,T , T , ployed in the U. S. Geological Survey. In April, 1891, 



Pnbilof Islands aud ^ •} ^ .t ^.i o 4. ^ /i rn 



seal life thereon. Ex- I was Ordered to report to tlie Secretary ot the ireas- 

 perience. ^^^.^^ which I did, and received from him a teinj)orary 



appointment as special Treasury agent, I visited the Pribilof Islands 

 and made a careful examination of the same and of the condition of 

 seal life thereon. I arrived on the islands June 9, 1891, and remained 

 there until September 10, 1891. I made a survey of 

 mSfeby^hhii.''^'"^'' ^'^^^^ islauds and also of the seal rookeries on botli of 



aid islands. The charts signed by me and marked A 



of said rookeries and represent the grounds covered by tlie same. The 

 gray color on said charts so signed by me, and the red color on the re- 

 prints of the same, represent tlie places occupied by breeding seals in 

 1891, which said spaces were covered by groups of said seals. The 

 white spaces on said original charts, as explained by legend on re- 

 prints, represent the grounds over which seals have at various times 

 hauled, as is plainly indicated by the condition of said areas. 



Joseph Stanley Brown. 



Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, in and for the 

 District of Columbia, this 10th day of May, 189li. 

 [l, S.J Sevellon A. Brown. 



Deposition of Stephen R. BnynitsTry^ Treasury agent in charge of the Pri- 

 bilof Islands. 



HABITS AND ROOKERIES IN 1870-'7li. 



District of Columbia, 



City of Washington, ss : 

 Stephen N. Buynitsky, being duly sworn, deposes and says: I am a 

 Russian by birth and am 60 years of age. I graduated from the Impe- 

 . rial Lyceum at St. Petersburg, an institution for the 



xpenenv^e. nobiUty. Am now a resident of the city of Washing- 



ton. I was detailed by the United States Treasury ])epartment to 

 take charge of St. (jcorge Island in Bering Sea diu'iug the sum- 



