Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part II

No. 36.
Mr. Lothrop to Mr. Bayard .

Legation of the United States,
St. Petersburg , February 22, 1888. (Received March 12.)

No. 161.]

Sir: Your dispatch, No. 110, relative to the protection of fur-bearing seals in the Behring Sea, has just reached me, and I have lost no time in making known to the imperial Government your wishes respecting the co-operation of the Russian ambassador in London with Mr. Phelps on this subject.

Very truly, etc.,

Geo. V. N. Lothrop.