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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 



.55. Annual reports of the Warden of the Standards on the proceedings and busi- 

 ness of the standard weights and measures department of the Board of Trade. 8vo. 

 (Printed as English Parliamentary Papers and contained in the volumes of " Reports 

 from Commissioners.") 



56. Reports of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the condition of the 

 Exchequer (now Board of Trade) standards. Presented to both Houses of Parlia- 

 ment by command of Her Majesty. Folio. (Printed as English Parliamentary 

 Papers, and contained in the volumes of "Reports from Commissioners.") 



* On the abolition of troy weight. 



tOii tbe inspection of weights and measures, etc. 



57. Adams, John Quincy. Report upon weights and measures, by John Quincy 

 Adams, Secretary of State of the United States. Prepared in obedience to the reso- 

 lution of the Senate of the 3d of March, 1817. Washington: printed by Gales & 

 Soaton. 1821. 8vo, pp. 245. (Contains report of F. R. Hassler on comparisons of 

 English and French measures, pp. 153-170.) 



58. Alexander, J. H. Report (made to the governor of Maryland) on the standards 

 of -weight and measure for the State of Maryland ; and on the construction of the 

 yard-measures. Baltimore, Dec. 13, 1845. 8vo, pp. iv -f 213. 



.59. Hassler, Ferdinand Rodolph. Papers on various subjects connected with 

 the survey of the coast of the United States. Trans. Amer. Philosophical Society 

 (Philadelphia), 1825, vol. 2, new series, pp. 232-420. 



60. Hassler, F. R. Comparison of weights and measures of length and capacity. 

 Reported to the Senate of the United States by the Treasury Department in 183J, 

 and made by P"'erd. Rod. Hassler. 22d Congress, 1st session, Ho. of Reps., Doc. No. 

 299. Washington, 1832. 8vo, 122 pp., with 4 folding plates. (Contains a paper by 

 Tralles giving important details, not published elsewhere, respecting the original 

 iron meters of the Commission des Poids et Mesures oi 1799.) 



