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1898 Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth. 



Despatch from Prof. D'Arcy Thompson forwarding a report on his mission to Bering Sea in 

 1897. [London, 1S98] 15 p. (U. S. No. i, 1898.) 

 U. S. Congress. Senate. 



Award of commissioners appointed pursuant to convention of February 8, 1S96, between 

 United States and Great Britain for settlement of claims in virtue of convention of Febru- 

 ary 29, 1892 [on Bering Sea controversy], Washington, 1898. 15 p. (55th Cong., 2d 

 sess., Senate Doc. 59.) [Summary of claims by tlie Secretary of State and text of con- 

 vention of February 8, i8g6, are included.] 

 U. S. President. 



Seizure of British ships in Bering Sea. Message from the President of the United States, 

 transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February i, 1S98, a report from 

 the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relating to the work of the commission 

 appointed pursuant to the convention of February 6, 1896, between the United States 

 and Great Britain for the settlement of claims presented by Great Britain against the 

 United States by virtue of the convention of February 29, 1892. Washington, 1898. 94 p. 

 (55th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. 164.) 

 U. S. President. 



Bering Sea awards. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report 

 from the Secretary of State in regard to the award of the commissioners appointed 

 piu'suant to the stipulations of the convention of February 8, 1896, between the United 

 States and Great Britain, providing for the settlement of the claims presented by the latter 

 against the former in virtue of the convention of February 29, 1892. Washington, 1898. 

 IS p. (55th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Doc. 59.) 

 U. S. Department of State. 



Fur seals in Bering Sea. Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a corrected copy 

 of Senate document no. 40, Fifty-fifth Congress, second session, in relation to the protection 

 of fur seals in the Bering Sea, and requesting that the same be reprinted. [Washington, 

 1898.] 3 p. (55th Cong., 2d sess.. Senate Doc. 40, pt. 2.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department. Commission on fur-seal investigations. 



Second preliminary report of the Bering Sea ftu--seal investigations by David Starr Jordan, 

 assisted by Leonhard Stejneger, Frederic Augustus Lucas, and George Archibald Clark, 

 1897. Washington, 1898. 48 p. (Treasury Dept. Doc. 1994.) 

 U. S. Treasury Department. Special Agents Division. 



Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska . . . Washington, 1898. 4 vols. 

 illus. plates (partly col., partly fold.) ports, maps, charts. (55th Cong., ist sess.. House 

 Doc. 92, pt. 1-4.) 



Contents. — v. i. Reports on condition of seal life on the Pribilof Islands by special Treasmy 

 agents . . . 1868 to 1895 . . . by D. S. Jordan, v. 2. Reports on seal and salmon fisheries 

 . . . and correspondence between the State and Treasury Departments on the Bering Sea 

 question . . . 1895 to . . . 1896, with comments on that portion thereof which relates 

 to pelagic sealing by D. S. Jordan, v. 3. Reports by H. W. Elliott and Lieut. W. Maynard, 

 U. S. N., on the fur-seal fisheries, etc., of the Pribilof Islands, and by Rev. S. Jackson on 

 "Reindeer in Alaska" and "Education in Alaska," with comments on Elliott's and 

 Maynard 's report by D. S. Jordan, v. 4. Reports by W. G. Morris, I. Petroff, C. H. Town- 

 send, F. W. True, J. J. Brice, and L. Stejneger on international resources of Alaska and 

 the fur-seal fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean, with comments on the reports of Townsend, 

 True, and Brice by D. S. Jordan. 

 U. S. Treasury Department. Special Agents Division. 



Statistical tables. Fur seal catch. Season of 1897. Washington, 1898. 30 p. (On verso 

 of t.-p.: Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Doc. 2009. Division of Special 

 Agents.) 



