654 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
65 No. 21. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
FOREIGN OFFICE, December 30, 1890. 
Sir: I have received your despatch of the 16th instant, reporting 
that you had handed to Mr. Blaine a copy of my despatch of the 22nd 
October last in regard to my conversation with Mr. Phelps on the 22nd 
February, 1888, on the subject of the Behring’s Sea controversy. 
I have to inform you that your language to Mr. Blaine, when com- 
municating to him the despatch in question, is approved. 
Tam, &c. 
(Signed) SALISBURY. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office—( Received January 1, 1891.) 
DOWNING STREET, December 31, 1890. 
Sir: With reference to your letter of the 13th September last, for- 
warding copy of a letter from Sir C. Lampson and Oo.* respecting the 
probable early extinction of the seals in Behring’s Sea, I am directed 
by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, for the information of the Mar- 
quis of Salisbury, a copy of a despatch from the Governor-General of 
Canada, transmitting an approved Minute of the Dominion Privy Coun- 
cil embodying a Report by the Minister of Marine and Fisheries on the 
statements contained in Messrs. Lampson’s letter. 
I am to request that the inclosures to Lord Stanley’s despatch, which 
are sent in original, may be returned, with a printed copy in the event 
of their being printed at the Foreign Office. 
Iam, Se. 
(Signed) KR. UH. MEADE. 
[Inclosure 1 in No. 22.] 
Lord Stanley of Preston to Lord Knutsford. 
GOVERNMENT HousgE, Ottawa, November 28, 1890. 
My Lorp: With reference to the representations contained in the letter from Sir 
C. Lampson and Co. to the Foreign Office of the 6th September last, copy of which 
was inclosed in your Lordship’s despatch of the 24th of that month, to the effect that 
there was likelihood of the early extinction of the fur-seal species unless a close 
season were at once established, I have the honour to forward to your Lordship a 
copy of an approved Minute of the Privy Council, embodying a Report by the Min- 
ister of Marine and Fisheries on the subject. 
Your Lordship will observe that the Minister contends that there is no good reason 
for believing that the extinction of the species is likely to be brought about, furnish- 
ing statistics of the Canadian catch for the past season, and adducing evidence drawn 
from United States sources in support of his contention. 
Ihave, &c. 
(Signed) STANLEY OF PRESTON. 
*No. 6. 
