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exhibit in declares every detail of that fraudulent classification by 

 weight which the Bureau of Fisheries and the lessees managed so as 

 to falsify the returns cf then illegal killing on the islands annually 

 to the Government. 



The scientists of the Bureau cf Fisheries, who have aided Mr. 

 Bowers in this false statement as to classification, and whom he cites 

 to the committee as his "authority" for making it in the following 

 words, are (Hearing No. 2, p. Ill, Ho. Com. Exp. Dept. Com. and 

 Labor) — 



Mr. Bowers. I had in mind getting the best talent I could; I expected probable 

 criticism. 



Mr. Totvxsexd. I am not-criticizing you now. 



Mr. Bowers. I endeavored to get the best talent it was possible to get and to act 

 upon their advice in this fur-seal matter. 



Mr. Cable. Give the names of the members of the advisory board. 



Mr. Bowers. The members of the fur-seal board and of the advisory board, fur-seal 

 service, are as follows (Hearing No. 2, pp. 109-110): 



"fur-seal board, bureau of fisheries. 



"In the Bureau of Fisheries, general matters regarding the fur seals are considered 

 by a fur-seal board, consisting of the following: 



"Dr. Barton Warren Evermann (chairman), who is chief of the Alaska Fisheries 

 Service and who has been in Alaska a number of times. He was a member of the 

 fur-seal commission of 1892, when he spent six months in the North Pacific and 

 Bering Sea and on the seal islands studying the fur seal. 



"Mr. Walter I. Lembkey, who has been in immediate charge of the seal islands for 

 many years; appointed March 22, 1899. 



"Mr. James Judge, who, as assistant agent, fur-seal service, has spent many years on 

 the islands; appointed April 30, 1894. 



"Mr. A. B. Alexander, Chief of the Division of Statistics and Methods of the Fish- 

 eries, who, as fishery expert on the steamer Albatross, visited the seal islands often, 

 and who has made a more careful study of pelagic sealing than any other man. 



"Mr. M. C. Marsh, pathologist of the Bureau of Fisheries, who spent the season of 

 1906 on the seal islands making a study of the seal herd. 



"The advisory board, fur-seal service, consists of the following: 



"Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford University, who was chairman of 

 the International Fur Seal Commissions of 1896 and 1897, appointed in pursuance 

 of the treaty of February 29, 1892, and whose published report in four volumes is the 

 most comprehensive, thorough, and valuable treatise that has ever been published 

 on all matters pertaining to the fur seal and the seal islands. Dr. Jordan is the most 

 distinguished and best-known naturalist in the world. 



"Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator of biology, United States National Museum, 

 for two years resident on the Russian seal islands, member of the Fur Seal Commis- 

 sions of 1896 and 1897, as a member of which he visited and studied all the fur-seal 

 rookeries of Alaska, Russia, and Japan. His report on the Russian seal islands is the 

 most critical and thoughtful that has been written. 



"Dr. C. Hart Merriam, until recently chief of the Biological Survey, member of the 

 Fur Seal Commission of 1890, and the greatest living authority on mammals. 



"Dr. Frederic A. Lucas, Director of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 member of the Fur Seal Commissions of 1896 and 1897, and one of the keenest, most 

 discerning, and best-known naturalists. 



"Dr. Charles H. Townsend, director of the New York Aquarium, for many years 

 naturalist on the fisheries steamer Albatross, member of the Fur Seal Commissions of 

 1896 and 1897, and distinguished as a naturalist and field investigator. Dr. Townsend 

 made a special study extending over many years of our fur seals and pelagic sealing. 



"Hon. Edwin W. Sims, United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois 

 in 1906, when Solicitor for the Department of Commerce and Labor spent the season 

 on the seal islands, where he made a very careful study of the conditions on the 

 islands. 



"Hon. Frank H. Hitchcock, Postmaster General, who, when chief clerk of the 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, had charge of the administration of the seal 

 service. 



