INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 725 



Jordan makes denial of knowledge that the male and female 

 yearling seals haul out together, or come together on the islands. 



There remains to be recorded the arrival of the 1 and 2 year old females. Their 

 brothers, we found, arrive at the islands about the middle of July and spend their time 

 on the hauling grounds. Whether the young females come with them to the vicinity 

 of the islands, or are associated with them on the migrations is not known. But they 

 do not associate with them to any great extent on the islands. (Fur Seal Investiga- 

 tions, pt. 1, 1898, p. 66.) 



But the Biological Museum of Stanford University holds the proof 

 that Clark has not truthfully testified, and that the female pups 

 branded in 1896 duly returned to hauling grounds as yearlings, in 

 1897, as reported by Murray and Clark, February 24, 1898. 



Dr. Jordan's men take a male and a female yearling seal out of a 

 drive from the hauling grounds, and send them as specimens to 

 Stanford University. 



Sunday, September 27, 1896. — (P. 12.) A barren cow shot on reef; skin taken for 

 Stanford University. (P. 13.) The skin of a yearling bull smothered in the food 

 drive from Lukannon 1 taken for Stanford University. (P. 14.) A yearling cow shot 

 for purposes of dissection out of the drive from Lukannon. Skin taken for Stanford 

 University. (Official journal of the United States Agent, St. Pauls Island, entered on 

 p. 53, and copied, July 24, 1913, by A. F. Gallagher.) 



And there they are to-day, male and female yearlings, in the 

 Biological Museum of Stanford University, denying the statement 

 that George A. Clark made here, under oath February 20-21, last. 



Mr. Stephens. Are they living animals? 



Mr. Elliott. No; they are stuffed. They were alive when they 

 were killed, and when Jordan and Clark's men went and got them. 



But, Lembkey, with 13 years' experience, reports that the females 

 do come out as yearlings with male yearlings. 



On July 1 there were three yearling seals in the drives at North East Point. One of 

 them, a typical specimen, was knocked down at my direction, to ascertain the weight 

 of the skin. It was found to be a female. 



Special attention was paid by me to the presence of yearlings in the drives, The 

 first seen was on June 28 in a drive from Zapadnie. It was so small that it was killed 

 to determine its weight. It was a male. * * * (Rept. W. I. Lembkey, Sept. 1, 

 1904, p. 77, App. A, H. Com. Exp. Dept. Com. and Labor, June 24, 1911.) 



THE DEADLY PARALLEL. 



(Sworn statement Feb. 21, But Joseph Murray (and David 



1914.) Clark swears that his Starr Jordan) officially reports 



branding pups less than 2 months that on September 1-10, 1896, he 



old, September 3, 1912, on top branded 315 female pups and 2 



of their heads with red-hot irons, cows on Lukannon and Keetavie 



has proved his case — that they rookeries, and in 1897 these 



did not come back in July, 1913, female pups returned and were 



on to the hauling grounds. seen on the hauling grounds as 



Mr. McGuntB. What light has this "yearlings." (See p. 62, Treas- 



branding thrown upon your report for Uiy Doc. No. 1913, 1896.) 



9 Alr r L ARK ? It has cleared ud mv The pups branded last year (1896) were 

 Mr Cxark. it nas cleared up my j h j and hearty in num bers on 



douMs at ftat time I saw a condition th hauli grounds y and roo keries. 



in 1909 where practically every small * * * This appearance of the branded 



seal was killed, and the question was „„. „ „„iT„„+t.^+«*-*i,«.,^„-,Tj^«« „^™ 



whether the yearlings came to the haul- cows, as well as that of the yearlings, shows 



ing grounds or not. ~ "■'' 



1 That drive "from Lukannon" was made on July 27, 1896, from which those yearling male and female 

 seals were secured, as above entered.— H. W. E. 



