File includes various official documents and reports related to seal fishing or created in relation to a mission to Washington regarding framing of sealing regulations in the Behring Sea, including: certified copy of the confidential report of a Committee of the Hon. Privy Council, on the Behring Sea and fur-seal fisheries, 1893 (26 pages); Reports on the Arbitrations and regulations of the fur seal fishery, by C. H. Tupper; Notice relating to Permits and Passes on fur-seal fishery; Confidential Report of the "British Agent to the Russian Seal Islands under the provisional agreement entered between her Majesty's government and that of Russia for the protection of Seal fisheries," Dr. Dawson, 1893 (108 pages with appendices).