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that we divided up the large groups so as to insure accuracy, and if 

 we got confused about it we could always recover the small group 

 and start it over again and make a recount. 



Mr. McGuire- Who assisted you in that count aside from the 

 natives, who I take it cut these small groups out for you? 



Mr. Clark. Mr. A. G. Whitney, the school-teacher on St. Paul 

 Island, was with me in all the pup counting from beginning to end. 



Mr. McGuire. Where is he? 



Mr. Clark. He is located on St. Paul Island now. 



Mr. McGuire. Anv one else? 



Mr. Clark. Mr. A. H. Proctor counted with us on St. George 

 Island, because he is located there as caretaker. Mr. Philip Hatton, 

 Dr. H. O. Mills, and Mr. Hanna, school-teacher on St. George, assisted 

 us on St. Paul. I may say about these counts that I have them all 

 certified to in my report for 1913 by the men who made the counts 

 with me. The certification is like this: 



We the undersigned participated in the above counts for St. Georges Island as 

 indicated in the notes. The counts were made jointly by Clark and Hatton or by 

 Clark and Proctor, and in the case of the harem counts for July 18 to 20 by Hatton 

 and Proctor jointly. We believe the counts to be reasonably accurate, giving a close 

 approximation of the actual number of animals. The margin of error is slight, and in 

 the nature of an under rather than an over estimate. 



That is signed by F. M. Chamberlain, naturalist; A. H. Proctor, 

 agent; Caretaker P. R. E. Hatton, agent; Caretaker G. A. Clark, 

 special assistant; A. G. Whitney, school-teacher, and refers primarily to 

 St. George. Other papers certify to the counts on St. Paul. 



Mr. McGuire. In what way, if any, or to what extent do the 

 results of that count differ from the count taken by Mr. Elliott and 

 Mr. Gallagher last summer of the pups? 



Mr. Elliott. Only a few thousand. 



Mr. Clark. On page 27 of hearing 1 , which we have before us, is the 

 census of Messrs. Elliott and Gallagher. In the first item he gives 

 1,400 old bulls. He does not say whether they are harem bulls 



The Chairman (interposing). But how do they differ in number? 

 That is what the Congressman wants to know. 



Mr. McGuire. Let us see what the difference is generally. I asked 

 as to the pups, but I would like to have it as to all of them. 



Mr. Clark. Messrs. Elliott and Gallagher give 1,400 old bulls and 

 150 young bulls for what I have indicated as 1,403 harem bulls and 

 364 idle or young bulls, so that there is not a ver} r great difference 

 between us there. But, by the way, I want to call attention right 

 here to the fact that Mr. Elliott at the top of page 27 has given us 

 1,550 bulls and at the bottom of this same page he says there are 

 1,450 bulls. 



Mr. Elliott. That is a typographical error. 



Mr. Clark. Very well. Then near the top of page 48, he says there 

 are 1,731 bulls combining the two estimates for St. Paul and St. 

 George, while at the bottom of the same page he savs there are 1,500 

 bulls. 



Mr. Elliott. That is another typgraphical error which was corrects 

 ed in my statement. 



The Chairman. Which is the correct figure ? 



Mr. Elliott. The final statement. I never saw the proof. I 

 noticed those errors, but I knew they would appear in the final state- 

 ment, and in the final statement you would get them all right. 



