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The following Parliamentary Sessional Papers mat be consulted for 

 records of the legislation of great britain relative to the sub- 

 JECT of Weights and Measures: — 



On Weights and Measures. Pari. Papers, Reports of Committees, 1813-14, 

 vol. iii., No. 290. Also Rep. Committees, Jan. to July, 1821, vol. iv., No. 

 571 ; and Report of Commissioners, by Clark, Gilbert, Wollaston, Young, 

 and Kater, No. 383 of same volume. 



Minutes of Evidence on Weight and Measure Bill. Rep. Committees, 1824, 

 vol. iv., No. 94. Also Rep. Committees, 1834, vol. xiv., No. 464. 



Report on Weights and Measures, and Minutes of Evidence. Rep. Commit- 

 tees, 1835, vol. xiv., No. 292. 



Report of Commissioners appointed to consider the Steps to be taken for the 

 Restoration of the Standards of Weight and Measure, by Airy, Baily, 

 Bethune, Herschel, Lefevre, Lubbock, Peacock, and Sheepshanks. Rep. 

 Commissioners, 1834-35, vol. i., No. 177. 



Report of Commissioners appointed to consider Steps for the Restoration of 

 Standards. Rep. Commissioners, 1842, vol. xi., No. 356. 



Report of Committee appointed to superintend the Construction of the Parlia- 

 mentary Standards, by Airy, Rosse, Wrottesley, Lefevre, Lubbock, Pea- 

 cock, Sheepshanks, and Miller. Rep. Commissioners, 1854, vol. xix. 



Report of Committee recommending the Legalization of the Metric System, 

 together with Minutes of Evidence. Rep. Committees, 1862, vol. vii., 

 No. 411. 



Bill authorizing the Use of the Metric System. Pari. Bills, 1864, vol. iv., Nos. 

 24, 165. 



Report on the Exchequer Standards of Weight and Measure, by H. W. Chis- 

 holm, with Notes by G. B. Airy. Accounts and Papers, 1864, vol. lviii., 

 No. 115. 



Bill to amend Acts relative to Standard Weights and Measures. Public Bills, 

 1866, vol. v., No. 166. 



Report of Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Condition of the Ex- 

 chequer Standards, and on the Abolition of Troy Weight, with Minutes 

 of Evidence. Rep. Commissioners, 1870, vol. xxvii. 



On the Application of the Metric System to India. Rep. Commissioners, 1870, 

 vol. liii., No. 225. 



Report on the International Conference on Weights, Measures, and Coins, held 

 in Paris, June, 1867. 1867-68, vol. xxvii. 



A Report to the Board of Trade upon the Formation and Proceedings of the 

 International Metric Commission at Paris, by W. II. Chisholm. 1873, 

 vol. xxxviii. 



General Index to the Reports of the Standards Commission. 1873, vol. xxxviii. 



Standards Commission Reports. 

 First Report. 1854, vol. xix. 

 Second Report. 1868, vol. xxiii. 

 Third Report. 1870, vol. xxvii. 

 Fourth Report. 1870, vol. xxvii. 

 Fifth Report. 1871, vol. xxix. 



Reports of the Warden of the Standards. No. 1 (1806) to No. 11 (1877). 



The references to Parliamentary Papers, and to United States Congressional Documents, are 

 for the most part taken from the Course of Elementary Physics, by Professor Charles R. Cross. 



