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Direct taxes as established by law : — 

 Anuual rental of seal fishery ...... $55,000 00 



Tax ou seal skins, 50,000 allowed to be taken by present 



regulations 100,000 00 



Bonus, 62^ cents each, on such skins .... 31,250 00 



Bonus on oil 55 cents per gallon, of which the yield is esti- 

 mated at one gallon for each seal killed . . . 27,500 00 

 Supplies and schools to be furnished to natives of seal islands 2,000 00 



Productions : — 



Value of seal skins above taxes 318,750 00 



Furs from Yukon district annually ..... 75,000 00 



Other continental furs ....... 10,000 00 



Fish and furs of Sitkan district according to Maj. Tidball's 



Report . 51,000 00 



Annual yield of sea otter trade, estimated at one-third the 



annual yield of the last twenty years . . . 65,000 00 



Walrus ivory and oil (1868) 7,500 00 



Salt codfish (10,612,000 lbs. in 1870) .... 754,840 00 



Cod-liver oil (10,000 gallons in 1866) .... 10,00000 

 Whale oil and bone from Alaskan waters, estimated at one- 

 third the whole Behring Sea catch annually, viz., 



466,666 lbs. bone and 1,179,000 gallons oil . . 869,499 60 



Ice trade 28,000 00 



Spars and timber 2,000 00 



Total annual production $2,407,339 60 



From this are to be deducted the annual expenses of the Ter- 

 ritory and the cost of production of the various articles, leaving 

 as a net profit over all expenses of every description, past and 

 present, the sum of $674,201 30 annually. This is equivalent to 

 a net profit of eight per cent. ; while by similar estimates Florida 

 pays four per cent., Texas twenty per cent., and New Mexico 

 less than nothing, annually. 



The total cost of Alaska up to Jan. 1, ISn, is $8,873,370 25, 

 and the present annual expenses are $529,468 50. 



Dr. Theodore Hilgard, of St. Louis, made a verbal commu- 

 nication 



ON THE number OF THE CEPHALIC VERTEBRA. 



{This communication is published in full in the Proceedings of the American 

 Society for the Advancement of Science, Twentieth Meeting.) 



