TABLE 2. 



EQUIVALENTS OF METRIC AND BRITISH IMPERIAL WEIGHTS 

 AND MEASURES.* 



(I) METRIC TO IMPERIAL 



NOTE. The METRE is the length, at the temperature of o C., of the platinum-indium bar deposited with the 

 Board of Trade. 



The present legal equivalent of the metre is 39'37079 inches, as above stated. If a brass metre is, however, 

 compared, not at its legal temperature (o C. or 32 F^), but at the temperature of 62 F., with a brass yard at the 

 temperature also of 62 F., then the apparent equivalent of the metre would be nearly 39 '382 inches. 



The KILOGRAMME is the weight in vacuo at o C. of the platinum-indium weight deposited with the Board of 



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Trade 



e. 



The LITRE contains one kilogramme weight of distilled water at its maximum density (4 C.), the barometer being 

 at 760 millimetres. 



* Quoted from sheets issued in 1890 by the Standard Office of the British Board of Trade. 

 SMITHSONIAN TABLES. 



