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issues of the Monthly Weather Review are now published in a series 

 of supplements to the Review, of which two were issued during the 

 year, viz: 



Supplement No. 1. Types of Storms of the United States and their 

 Average Movements; with 114 charts showing the average 24-hour 

 movement of each type for each month of the year. 



Supplement No. 2, already prepared, will contain (a) a calendar of 

 the common trees of the Eastern United States, and (6) a record of the 

 time of leafing, blooming, and fruiting of numerous native and culti- 

 vated plants growmg in the vicinity of Wauseon, Ohio. 



Volume XII, Daily River Stages of the Principal Rivers of the 

 United States, for 1913 and 1914, is now in course of deUvery. 



Owing to the cessation of foreign weather reports at the beginning 

 of the European war, the issue of a daily weather map of the Northern 

 Hemisphere had to be discontinued August 6, 1914. 



The^ total daily, weekly, and montmy issue and disposition of 

 periodical publications at the close of the fiscal year was as foUows: 



Total daily, weekly, and monthly issue and disposition of periodical publications at 



Washington, D. C. 



Weather Map, first edition, daily 



Weather Map, second edition, daily 



Montlily Weather Review 



National Weather and Crop Bulletin (weekly, April to September; 



monthly. October to March) ." 



Snow and Ice Bulletin (weekly during winter) 



Climatological Data, monthly 



Monthly Meteorological Summary 



Forecast Cards, daily 



Forecast Cards, weekly 



Total. 



1,015 



415 



1,375 



3,325 



J, 320 



444 



225 



1,550 



225 



The above-mentioned publications were issued at Washington. 

 Many thousands of weather maps, weather bulletins, river bulletins, 

 cotton-region bulletins, and daily forecast cards were issued at the 

 Weather Bureau stations throughout the United States.' 



NEW FEATURES OF THE WORK. 



The publication of the Farmers' BuUetin, entitled The Agricultural 

 Outlook, was discontmued with the issue of April, 1915. Beginning 

 with May, 1915, and monthly thereafter, statistics relating to agri- 

 cultural conditions, including estimates of acreage, production, 

 yields, prices of live stock, and text summaries were published in a 

 serial of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, known as the Monthly Crop 

 Report, This publication is a resumption in size and nature of 

 material of the Crop Reporter, which was discontinued with the 

 issue of June 19, 1913. 



Under Memorandum No. 118, issued January 14, 1915, provision 

 is made for office circulars and that any such circulars, whether printed 

 or mimeographed, shaU differ in make-up from the regular publications 

 either in size or color of paper or ink. They must be numbered in 

 inconspicuous type, and at least two copies forwarded to the document 

 clerk of the main library at the time the circular is issued. Several 

 such circulars, ephemeral in character, and designed for immediate 



