Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1896, and the Annual Report of the Secretary of State

Sir Julian Pauncefote to Mr. Olney.

British Embassy,
Washington, July 30, 1896.

Sir: I did not fail to inform my Government of the arrangements made whereby the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross has been placed at the disposal of the scientists appointed by both Governments, respectively, to carry on inquiries during the present season into the condition of the fur-seal fisheries in Bering Sea and at the Commander Islands.

I am now in receipt of a dispatch from the Marquis of Salisbury, in which I am directed by his lordship to convey to you the thanks of Her Majesty’s Government for the facilities thus extended to Mr. D’Arcy Thompson and Mr. Macoun in the prosecution of their investigations, and at the same time to express the readiness of Her Majesty’s Government to defray half the cost of the cruise of the Albatross.

I have, etc.,

Julian Pauncefote.