DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS. 



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WEATHER BUREAU PUBLICATIONS. 



Of the funds appropriated for the department's printing and bind- 

 ing a specific sum is £illotted for the use of the Weather Bureau. All 

 of these publications do not pass through this division as do other 

 pubhcations of tliis department. They are printed either at the 

 Weather Bureau or at tne Government Printing Office, are handled 

 and stored at the bureau and distributed therefrom, and a report of 

 the distribution is made to this office. 



Ocean and Great Lake Charts. — The bureau has continued 

 the issue of meteorological chari;s of the oceans and Great Lakes. 

 The charts are 21 by 28 inches in size, are printed in colors, and are 

 pubhshed monthly and quarterly as shown herewith: 



Clematological Eeports. — From the 12 drainage districts of the 

 United States climatological data are received and printed monthly, 

 in quarto form, and in number averaging about 1,100 from a district. 



Weather ^Iaps and Bulletins. — Weather Bureau stations in all 

 the States issue a large number of maps, bulletins, and forecast cards. 

 There was a large increase in the number of maps issued — 6,000,000 

 in 1910; 8,000,000 in 1911. 



Seventy-five stations issue weather maps and bulletins; 28 have 

 printing outfits and others use duplicating processes. The station 

 map is a sheet 11 by 16 inches, and the subscription price is 20 cents 

 a month or S2 a year. Weather Bureau stations issue forecast cards 

 to the amount or 23,000,000 annually and disseminate local cHmato- 

 logical data. 



expenditures FOR PRINTING AND BINDING. 



The number of requisitions for printing and binding drawn upon 

 the Government Printing Office was 4,568. The allotment for print- 

 ing and binding was the same as for the preceding year, namelv, 

 $460,000. Of this amount .'$25,000 was expended by the Weather 

 Bureau. Of the remaining $435,000 the expenditures for the vari- 

 ous bureaus, divisions, and offices amounted to $307,500.05, being 

 $17,729,48 more than for the year 1910; and $118,012.06 was ex- 

 pended for Farmers' Bufietins, a decrease of $8,567.31 by comparison 

 with the preceding year. 



A considerable amount of work of all kinds ordered from the Gov- 

 ernment Printing Office and urgently needed by the department 

 could not be undertaken or completed on account of the unusual 

 accumulation of printing required by Congress. 



