Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Wharton.
Washington, July 6, 1891.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d instant, in which you propose that arrangements be made to enable the agents appointed by our respective Governments to visit the Behring Sea for the purpose of examining into seal life to go together, so that they may make their observations conjointly.
I at once communicated this proposal to the Marquis of Salisbury by telegram, and I have received a reply from his lordship to the effect that a ship has already been chartered to take the British commissioners to the seal islands, and that the engagement could not now be canceled, but that the British commissioners will be instructed, when they arrive in the islands, to cooperate as much as possible with the commissioners to be appointed by your Government for the purposes of the inquiry.
I have, etc.,