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in advance. The number of places wiicre weatlier maps are issued lias 

 been increased to over 00 and the distribution of the maps lias been 

 enlarged, especially in agricultural communities. The cotton region 

 reports are now sent to the State weather service headquarters, as well 

 as to the Weather Bureau centers, and telegraphic information of the 

 first killing frost at every cotton region station will hereafter be 

 included in these reports. A similar service is contemplated for the 

 sugar region. An exhibition showing the working of a Weather Bureau 

 station was recently made at a fair at Albany, New York, and it is 

 intended to make these displays at other places. The method of prepar- 

 ing and distributing the weather forecast is described in outline. States 

 and Territorial weather services have been organized since July 1 in 

 11 States and Territories, making 39 such services now in operation. 

 More than 100 new voluntary meteorological stations have been estab- 

 lished. The number of weather signal display stations has been 

 increased from G30 to over l,liOO. An index of meteorologi«al observa- 

 tions in the United States is being prepared for distribution to the 

 princi])al stations of the Bureau with :\ view to giving gn-ater jmblieity 

 to tlu' data in the records of the oflirc Tiiere are at present about 

 2,L'00 voluntary observers in the Tnited States, an increase of alK>ut 

 400 in 3 months. A liberal policy in ]troviding these observers with 

 instruments and information is recommended. An index to foreign 

 meteorological observations is being ]»rei»ared. Other topics treat«'d in 

 the report are the Pacific (Joast <livision of the IMireau, river and Hood 

 service, telegraph service, the instrument room, monthly weather review, 

 bildiography of meteorology, international conference of meteoroh»gists, 

 and the relations of the Bureau to the agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations. 



