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these alone has any general account of the Pribyloff Islands 

 obtained wide publicity. Mr. Elliott has, in fact, been 

 accepted as the chief authority on seal life in the North. 

 Pacific. Coniniendatory expressions of the kind above 

 alluded to are cited in the Case of the United States, but 



Mr. Elliott's works arc no longer referred to on any 

 23G point, nor has his latest Eeport, resulting from his 



special iuvesijgations on the Pribyloff Islands in 

 1890, been published by the United States. Such portions 

 of this Repoit as the author has himself made public show 

 that he has found reason to change liis former opinions as 

 to the propriety of the methods emjjloyed on the islands. 



