648 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



Mr. Lembkey. The date of the field note to which you referred ? 



The Chairman. July 23; at least 24 is the next. 



Mr. Lembkey. Is this the sentence to which you had reference, 

 "As the end of the killing season approaches it is plain that no seal 

 is really too small to be killed"? 



The Chairman. Yes. 



Mr. Lembkey. I could not agree with Mr. Clark on that point. 

 "Skins of less than 5 pounds weight are taken and also skins of 

 8 and 9 pounds." That is literally correct. We occasionally got 

 skins weighing slightly less than 5 pounds and we also occasionally 

 got a skin which weighed more than 8% pounds. 



The Chairman. Let me see what you answer in your report is 

 to this paragraph ? 



Mr. Lembkey. I have it here. I am reading now from page 903 

 of Appendix A to these hearings, from the criticism which I made 

 of this report of Mr. Clark's for 1909. In that I stated as follows: 



When Mr. Clark states on page 50 that the killing ranged from 4-pound skins to 

 14^-pound skins, he is literally correct, but conveys an entirely wrong impression 

 by his statement. There was one 4-pound skin taken and one 14-pound skin taken. 

 These were taken by accident by the natives in food drives. 



The Chairman. Please adhere to the answer you made to this 

 paragraph. 



Mr. Lembkey. I do not remember that I answered that paragraph 

 in particular, Mr. Chairman. I do not believe I made any answer to 

 that in particular. 



The Chairman. That is all so far as the chair is concerned. 



Dr. Ever ma xx. When the Elliott-Gallagher report appeared and 

 I looked it over it seemed to me that I would like to come before 

 the committee and make a reply to some of the statements made in 

 that report, but after listening to the testimony given by Mi*. Clark 

 and Mr. Lembkey I find they have covered practically all of the 

 important points that I had in mind, and in view of that fact I 

 do not think it necessary for me to say anything. 



Thereupon a recess was taken until 2 o'clock p. m. 



