Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents No. 180 December, 1909 ISSUED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE Abbreviations Appendix .............................. ____ app. Page, pages..........................................p. Congress.................................___ Cong. Part, parts...................................pt., pts. Consular.................................____ cons. Plate, plates.........................................pl. Department........................... ___ Dept. Portrait, portraits.............................por. Document.............................._____doc. Quarto.................................................. 1° Executive.............................._____ ex. Report................................................ rp. Facsimile, facsimiles............. __ facsim. Saint................................................... St. Folio..................................... ______ f» Section, sections...............................sec. House.................................... _____ H. Senate.................................................. S. House concurrent resolution.. ....H.C.R. Senate concurrent resolution...... S. C. R. House document................... ...H. doc. Senate document..................................S. doc. House executive document... H. ex. doc. Senate executive document.... S. ex. doc. House joint resolution.......... ....H. J. R. Senate joint resolution................. S. J. R. House report..........................___ H. rp. Senate report ...........................S. rp. House resolution (simple)......____ H. R. Senate resolution (simple).............. S. R. Illustration, illustrations.......______ il. Session..............................................sess. Inch, inches........................... _____ in. Sixteenmo.................. ....................... 16° Latitude................................._____ lat. Statutes at large...........................Stat. L. Leaf, leaves............................ Table, tables...................................... tab. Longitude............................. .......long. Thirty two-mo...................................... 32® Mile, miles........................... ............m. Treasury....................................... Treas. Miscellaneous...................... .mis., misc. Twelvemo.......................................... 12° Nautical................................. .......naut. Twentyfour-mo............................ .24® No date................................. .........n. d. Versus"............................................vs., v. No place............................... .........n. p. Volume, volumes........................v., vol. Number, numbers.................. ...no., nos. 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Though coal is still the leader, with iron a bad second, gold increased to $94,560,000, which is the record, but it is exceeded by both copper and clay. Forest Service circular 171, The forests of the United States: their use, is a clear and vigorous presentation of the present status of the American forestry problem, from the pen of Mr. Overton W. Price, associate forester. Forest Service circular 172 discusses Methods of increasing forest productivity, certainly a most practical topic. Plant Industry Bureau has issued title page, contents table, and list of illustrations for binding its first 40 circulars in a volume. Professor Irving Fisher’s famous paper, The national vitality: its wastes and