acknowledged the receipt of the _Address_ from Balmoral Castle in
September, granted an interview at Ottawa in December, and authorized
the use of his name to show his sympathy with the movement.

Dr. W.T. Grenfell has a long and most intimate knowledge of the
Atlantic Labrador. He writes:

The matters of animal preservation which interest me most
are: The rapid decline in numbers of harp seals which we
Northern people can get for our boots and clothing. This
food and clothing supply, formerly readily obtainable all
along the Labrador, helped greatly to maintain in comfort
our scattered population. It is scarcely now worth while
putting out seal nets. We attribute this to the destruction
of seals at the time of their whelping, by steamers which
are ever growing larger and more numerous. No mammal,
producing but one offspring can long survive this.

Along the Labrador coast east of the Canadian border, birds
are destroyed on sight and nests robbed wherever found. The
laws are a dead letter because there is no one to enforce
them.

There is great need also for scientific inquiry with regard
to the fisheries--the herring and mackerel are apparently
gone, the salmon are getting scarcer, and the cod fisheries
have been failing perceptibly these past years. Yet there is
no practical effort made to discover the reason and obviate
it.