Show tho signal the annual report of hazan signal officer ctr has been completed central Cen cral alizon says tho year last pat has been distinguished by additional progress anil by the following improvements the establishment 0 a permanent school ot instruction at fort myar vii alio llio raisin 0 iho ot ibo personnel 0 tho signal corps the 0 alio llio ot the signal service alio preparation of new lor observers ol 01 alio service alio preparation 0 new and improved forma toe the recording and preservation 0 meteorological dati tho preparation ol 01 pedal bulletins for tho press containing weather information ot public interest ilia forecasts of weather ot hot or cold waves for periods exceeding twenty four hours the forc casti ot tor tho interior plateau tho adoption ot a new storm signal the cautionary northwest for tb cr lakes thear the ar for the increase ot river service and wider publications ot warning ot hoods or ice gorges alio llio changes and improve in iho publication ot alio and the monthly weather review alth their accompanying charts tho increased to the banners fan ners and to th railway built ins alio floii of it service for ibo 0 abo cotton interests ot tho south the extension frost warning to the fruit inter ali of ibo country iho anve aig ilin into and into barometric iho of new hy tables containing correction for altitude tho 0 the altitudes of signal sonvico stations tho computation of monthly for alio reduction of observed barometric pressures ip aca level hie arrangements for original la atmospheric electricity in and in und in tho lat walli act ranco to alic of adlar radiation in agriculture and the absorption ot tho suns libat by the the coop co op aeration la an expedition to tho summit of mount whitney california for ho acter of problems in olar chyi acs in tho preparation of tables for the engleh aud metric systems the co in tho dropping 0 ball at signal sen led flattens tho public i lion in quarto form ot sped d professional abo offering of prizes tor assa of lucell on the organization of state services tho new or danger lines on wait cm rivers the and equipment ot two expeditions for meteorological observation and research in ibe arctic of Amerl ci one to bo stationed at lady isay alio oilier at boint harrow alaska both cooperating in this work a s of stations in alic region by in lonal the establishment ot n of ft alious ot observation in aliska in regard to the collection of data upon which to predicate information ot valno la llie ho had in the cotton belt from tho rai n fall direction of winds temperature etc would bo telegraphed dally to selected can larf for distribution at the of the vicc to the cotton exchanges in all important cities in the botlon region two hundred and forty debt auxiliary stations were which opened to the united slates a very favorable opportunity of obtaining dita at a very slight from a legion whose agricultural interests depend to an unusual extent on climatic conditions not yet as well as they should be unfortunately congress did iho amount which had been carefully astl nitch a necessary to meet the ol 01 the increased work proposed for the signal service and its chief waa unwillingly compelled to reduce the number ot stations ta bo to selected from alic as stations promised which are so tu to best cover the cotton belt |