866 APPENDIX TO COUNTER-CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



No. 4. 



Declaration of M. Stanislas Revillon. 



Je, soussign6, Stanislas Eevillon, 6tabli fabricant de foiirrures a 

 Paris, 89, Eue des Petits-Ohamps, depuls 1857, expert pres des Douaues 

 Fraugaises depuis de loDgues aDnees, et visitant assidument les marches 

 de Londi-es et les foires Russes et Asiatiqiies, declare avoir remarque 

 dans les lots de loiitres (en Anglais "fur-seals") exposes et vendus sur 

 le marcbe Anglais, que tres souvent parmi les diverses especes, soit do 

 "Coi)per Island" ou "d' Alaska," 11 y avaient des types qui dilieraient 



de la sorte annoncee. 

 232 Cette difference doit provenir des melanges produits par les 



migrations de ces animaux d'un point a I'autre. 

 En r^sum^, je crois que les phoques ou loutres sont comme bien 

 d'autres especes d'aiiimaux que dmigrent parfois, soit pour leur nourri- 

 ture ou pour toute autre cause que j'ignore. 



(Sign6) S. Eevillon. 



Signe et declare a Paris, ce 28 Decembre, 1892. 



Par-devaiit moi: 



[CACHET.] (Signe) G. Austin Taylor, 



Pro-Consul Britannique, 



No. 5. 



Declaration of Mr. William Henry Smith. 



I, William Henry Smith, of No. 10, Watling Street, in the City of 

 Loudon, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows: 



1. I am a member of the firm of George Smith and Sons, wholesale 

 furriers. The firm has been in existence for ninety-two years, and I 

 have been a partner of the firm for upwards of thirty-five years. My 

 firm, as wholesale furriers, buy every year a large number of seal-skins. 

 We purchase them in the raw state in which they come from the place 

 where they are caught. We have them dressed and dyed by some 

 London dresser, and we then convert them into articles for sale to the 

 public. Having been engaged in this business for the number of years 

 above mentioned, I am familiar with the different kinds of seal-skins sold. 

 There are three chief classes of skins — Alaskas, Coppers, and north- 

 west catch. The difference between the Coppers and Alaska skins, in 

 my opinion, lies mainly in the length and quality of the fur, the Alaska 

 fur being somewhat longer and somewhat denser than the Coppers. 

 The sizes of the Alaska seals, in my opinion, run a little larger than the 

 Copper. Other differences, if any, such as colour and shape, are trivial, 

 and, in fact, I have not observed them. 



2. As regards the sex of the seal, I have never considered this matter 

 at all, and I could not give any estimate as to the proportion of females 

 and males in the north-west catch. The question of sex does not enter 

 into business calculations in any way. We buy according to the usual 

 sizes given in the catalogue, and commonly known as "middlings" and 

 "smalls," "large pups," "small pups," «&c. 



3. I am of opinion, if the reports I hear and read are correct, that 

 some regulations are necessary for preserving the seals. What those 

 regulations should be I have not got safficieiit information to justify me 



