Note 39 — THE SCIENTIFIC EXPERT AND THE BERING SEA CONTROVERSY.
Reading edition
This table of statistics need not be quoted here in full. The following section, embracing the ten years prior to 1889 and including 1884, will suffice:
Year. Date quota filled. Hauling grounds driven. Number of drives. Killed on land. Killed at sea.
1879 16 71 36 110,411 8,557
1880 17 78 38 105,718 8,418
1881 20 99 34 105,063 10,382
1882 20 86 36 99,812 15,551
1883 19 81 39 79,509 16,557
1884 21 101 42 105,434 16,971
1885 27 106 63 105,024 23,040
1886 26 117 74 104,521 28,494
1887 24 101 66 105,760 30,628
1888 27 102 73 103,304 26,189
1889 81 110 74 102,617 29,858