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<p>This field book contains Stejneger's notes from his research in Hakodate, Hokkaido in the northern region of Japan. Pages are numbered 501-559. Stejneger's narrative entries contain explanatory notes regarding the characteristics of different seal herds, seal migration patterns, and attitudes of local pelagic sealers on various issues including implementing a closed season for hunting. Also included is a timeline beginning 1877 of the number of seals and sea otters killed, the locations, and other notes regarding sealing for that year
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<br>Subjects: International Fur-Seal Commission; Northern fur seal; Zoologists</div>
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Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943</div>
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