786 Forestry Quarterly 



Representative Albert Johnson, of Washington, in the last 

 session of Congress introduced a bill (H. R. 528) to discontinue 

 the use of the Fahrenheit thermometer scale in government publi- 

 cations, substituting the centigrade scale. It is, of course, ex- 

 pected that if the government changes, all the people would 

 change; the change is proposed to take place after January 1, 

 1920. It is strange that the irrational Fahrenheit scale, which 

 was discredited in the country of its inventor, should have been 

 adopted by the English-speaking nations. But for the momentum 

 of established usage, we would expect Great Britain to follow this 

 example, especially now since hatred of everything German is the 

 order of the day. 



