828 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Vancouver’s Island before the departure of the Commissioners. M. 
Chichkine, who has a strong opinion on the subject of the extinction of 
the fur-seal species, expressed his full concurrence with the mission of 
Her Majesty’s Commissioners, and said he would do all he could to 
obtain the necessary permission at once. There always remained, how- 
ever, the difficulty of the three Ministers to be brought into connected 
action. 
I have, &e. 
(Signed) Rh. B. D. MORTER. 
[Inclosure in No. 98.] 
Sir R. Morier to M. de Giers. 
St. PETERSBURGH, June 27 (July 9), 1891. 
M. te Ministre: In the Agreement between Her Majesty’s Government and that 
of the United States, signed on the 15th June last, in connection with the question 
of seal-hunting in the Behring’s Sea, it was stipulated that suitable persons desig- 
nated by Great Britain should be permitted upon application to visit or remain upon 
the American seal islands during the present sealing season for the purpose of making 
such inquiries as might assist Her Majesty’s Government in presenting their case to 
the Arbitrators, should an agreement for arbitration be arrived at, and with the 
ultimate view of arriving at such data with regard to seal life as might facilitate a 
general agreement for the preservation of the species. 
I have now been instructed by Her Majesty’s Government to inform your Excel. 
lency that Sir George Baden-Powell and Professor Dawson, men pre-eminently fitted 
for the purpose, have been selected by Her Majesty’s Government to go out to the 
Behring’s Sea and North Pacific for the purpose of investigating the conditions of 
seal life in those seas; and they are very desirous that, in addition to the American 
islands, these gentlemen should be permitted to complete their inquiry by a visit to 
the Russian seal islands, an important reason for this being that it will be necessary 
to ascertain how far the alleged diminution of seals is due merely to migration to. 
other rookeries. 
Her Majesty’s Government, in instructing me to make this application to the 
Imperial Government, express their strong wish that the permission might be 
granted as quickly as possible, in order that they may be in a position to telegraph 
it to the Commissioners before they leave Vancouver's Island. 
T avail, &c. 
(Signed) R. B. D. Morrer. 
No. 99. 
The Marquis of Salisbury to Sir J. Pauncefote. 
{ Telegraphic. ] 
FOREIGN OFFICE, July 13, 1891. 
I have received your telegram of the 10th instant relating to the 
Agreement for arbitration in the Behring’s Sea question, and I approve 
the reply you propose to make to the United States Government as to 
the objections entertained by Her Majesty’s Government to the pro- 
posed wording of clause 7 of the Agreement. 
No. 100. 
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.—( Received July 14.) 
DOWNING STREET, July 14, 1891. 
Str: With reference to your letter of the 19th June, I am directed 
by Lord Knutsford to transmit to you, to be laid before the Marquis of 
