APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 201 
Nos 95: 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, February 22, 1888. 
Sir: I transmit herewith, for your information, a copy of a letter 
from the United States Minister in London,* inelosing a copy of a 
despatch addressed to him by Mr. Bayard on the 7th instant, in which 
attention is called to the necessity for the adoption of measures for the 
protection of the fur-seals in Behring’s Sea. 
I an, We. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
No. 96. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir L. West. 
[Extract.] 
FoREIGN OFFICE, February 22, 1888. 
The United States Minister called to-day at the Foreign Office, and 
spoke to me about the question of the protection of the fur seals in 
Behring’s Sea. 
He said that the difficulties in regard to the seal fisheries in that sea 
were mainly connected with the question of the close time, and that 
no attempt had been made by the authorities of the United States to 
stop the fishing there of any vessels at the time when it was legitimate. 
Mr. Phelps then made a proposal on the bases embodied in Mr. 
Bayard’s despatch of the 7th February, a copy of which accompanies 
my previous despatch of this day’s date.* 
Mr. Bayard there expresses the opinion that the only way of pre- 
venting the destruction of the seals would be by concentrated action on 
the part of the United States, Great Britain, and other interested 
182. Powers to prevent their citizens or subjects from kiling fur 
seals with fire-arms or other destructive weapons north of 50° 
of north latitude, and between 100° of longitude west and 170° of longi- 
tude east from Greenwich, during the period intervening between 
the 15th April and 1st November. 
I expressed to Mr. Phelps the entire readiness of Her Majesty’s 
Government to join in an Agreement with Russia and the United 
States to establish a close time for seal-fishing north of some latitude 
to be fixed. 
No. 97. 
Foreign Office to Colonial Office. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, March 3, 1888. 
Sir: Tam directed by the Marquis of Salisbury to transmit here- 
with, for the information of Secretary Sir H. Holland, a copy of a letter 
from the United States Minister in London,* inclosing a copy of a 
* See No. 93. 
