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• Title:The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean / by David Starr Jordan [and 6 others].
  
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• Author/Creator:Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Clark, George A. (George Archibald), 1864-1918, author.
  Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943, author.
  Adams, Bristow, 1875-1957, illustrator.
  United States. Department of the Treasury, commissioning body.
  
• Published/Created:Washington : Goverment Printing Office, 1898-1899.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: SH361 .U48 1898
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:v.1-3
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sealing--Alaska--Pribilof Islands.
  Sealing--Bering Sea.
  Sealing--North Pacific Ocean.
  Northern fur seal--Alaska--Pribilof Islands.
  Northern fur seal--Bering Sea.
  Northern fur seal--North Pacific Ocean.
  Natural history--Alaska--Pribilof Islands.
  
• Description:4 volumes : illustrations, folded plates of maps (some color) ; 28 cm
  
• Series:Document (United States. Department of the Treasury) ; no. 2017.
  
• Notes:Vol. 1: 249 pages, [36] leaves of plates ; v. 2: 250-606 pages ; v. 3: XII, 629 pages, LCV leaves of plates : [3] folded maps ; v. 4: 384 pages, 113 leaves of plates.
  Volume 1 and 3 have fronticepiece.
  Volume 4 has 25 folded maps at end (some color).
  Includes indexes.
  
• Contents:Part 1. The history, condition, and needs of the herd of fur seals resorting to the Pribilof Islands / by David Starr Jordan and George Archibald Clark ; illustrated by photographs, and by drawings from nature by Bristow Adams
  part 2. Observations on the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands, 1872-1897
  part 3. Special papers relating to the fur seal and to the natural history of the Pribilof Islands
  part 4. The Asiatic fur-seal islands and fur-seal industry / by Leonhard Stejneger.