THE Franklin Institute is not responsible for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to the Journal. THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE. Annual Meeting, held Wednesday, Jauuary 15, 1902. THE ALASKO-CANADIAN FRONTIER.* By THOMAS WILLING BALCH. At the end of May, 1898, the United States and Great Britain agreed to appoint an Anglo-American Joint High Commission to consider and arrange upon a basis more favorable to both sides, such important problems as the regulations of the North Atlantic fisheries, commercial reciprocity and the Behring Sea fishery question. Soon after, "For the first time a statement was presented by the British Government to the Government of the United States on the 1st of August, 1898, developing the fact that a difference of views existed respecting the provisions of the treaty of 1825" between the United States and the English Empire, concerning the meaning of the Alaska *Copyright, 1902, by Thomas Willing Balch. VOL. CLIII. No. 915. II |