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]\Ir. Claek. Yes, sir; 268,305 as against 190,950. 



Mr. McGuiee. And that would further tend to prove that you 

 were accurate; that jis, that your figures were not too low in your 

 report to Secretary Nagel ? 



Mr. Clark. It proves that my figures for 1909 were an under- 

 estimate rather than an overestimate. 



Mr. Stephens. What was your estimate for 1909 ? 



Mr. Claek. 158,000. 



Mr. McGuiee. So that it is absolutely proven here and now that 

 you were right and Dr. Hornaday was wrong. 



Mr. Claek. I think so. 



Mi*. McGutee. By the official records and by all the representatives 

 of the Government ? 



Mr. Claek. Yes. 



Mr. McGuiee. You stated yesterday that there was another 

 observation you wanted to make with respect to the charges against 

 Dr. Jordan, and you were interrupted. Now, will you finish that 

 statement ? 



Mr. Claek. I was referring to this specific charge of falsification 

 of Russian records against Dr. Jordan, made at pages 185, 258, and 

 411. I was able to answer the charge with regard to Yanovsky by 

 reading a reference given by Mr. Elliott, and proving that that trans-* 

 lation supported Dr. Jordan. 



Now, there is just one other statement that I wanted to call atten- 

 tion to, and was diverted from at the time. On page 185 of this first 

 hearing, Mr. Elliott is quoting from page 222 of Dr. Jordan's report, 

 volume 3. This is a translation by Dr. Stejneger of an article by 

 Bishop Veniaminof, originally published in St. Petersburg in 1839, 

 The translation was made for Dr. Jordan to be placed in his report. 

 Mr. Elliott quotes a paragraph that begins: "The taking of fur the 

 seals commenced in the latter days of September," and ends, "the 

 latter are driven cautiously back to the beach." I am not interested 

 in the full quotation, but toward the end of it there is inserted a 

 series of stars, showing an omission. This quotation is made with a 

 view to showing that Dr. Jordan falsified when he declared that the 

 Russians killed the fur seals, males and females. This omitted sen- 

 tence is very important and I want to read it. 



Mr. McGuiee. You mean that which is omitted in Elliott's quota*-- 

 tion. 



Mr. Claek. He omitted this sentence: 



The quite young seals; that is to say, those only 4 months of age, are killed 

 without exception. 



Mr. McGuiee. You mean to say that is omitted from Elliott's 

 statement ? 



Mr. Clark. It is omitted from this quotation by Mr. Elliott and 

 the quotation is repeated three times in this document before you. 



Mr. McGuiee. Suppose you inserted that statement; what effect 

 would it have on his statement ? 



Mr. Claek. It absolutely disproves Mr. Elliott's contention and 

 proves that Dr. Jordan was right when he said that the Russians 

 killed the fur seals, male and female alike. 



Mr. McGuiee. Could that have been omitted without having been 

 willfully omitted % 



