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BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES 
lished by the writer in 1896 and 1898. His data, however, have been transferred to 
the latter, as shown in Figures 15, 16, and 17, and to better show the destruction 
the distribution of the seals as the writer mapped it in 1S95 has been reproduced 
on the same scale (figs. 10, 11, and 12). 
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THE TREATY OF 1911 
' It had become obvious to everybody by this time, to those who had profited 
by the pelagic sealing as well as to the powers owning the breeding grounds, that 
some arrangement would have to be made if the seal herds were not to be extermi- 
