ON UNIFORMITY OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 359 
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Report on the-best means of providing for a Uniformity of Weights and 
Measures, with reference to the Interests of Science, by a Committee 
consisting of The Right Hon. Sir Starrorp H. Norrucorsz, Bart., 
C.B., M.P., The Right Hon. Sir C.B. Appreriey, M.P.,Sir W. Arm- 
stRoNG, C.B., F.R.S., Samuet Brown, F.S.S., Dr. Farr, F.R.S., A. 
Hamitton, F.G.S., Professor FrRanKLAND, F.R.S., Professor Hen- 
nessy, F.R.S., Professor Lronr Levi, F.S.S. (Secretary), C. W. 
Sremens, F.R.S., Professor A. W. Wituiamson, F.R.S., Major- 
Gen. Stracuey, F.R.S., and Dr. Roperts. 
Your Committee, appointed to report on the best means of providing for a 
uniformity of weights and measures with reference to the interest of science, 
have already in their several Reports indicated their opinion that such unifor- 
mity can best be promoted by the diffusion of the Metric System in all civi- 
lized countries, and by the adoption of a system of coinage founded on gold 
asa single standard, with a uniform proportion of alloy of one in ten and with 
a decimal division ; and their opinion has been corroborated by the gradual 
extension of the Metric System, notably in the whole German empire, and by 
the concurrence of all nations in the same principles of coinage, though notin 
the identity of the unit. It isin the United Kingdom that the greatest difficulty 
is experienced in introducing the reform ; and your Committee regret that Her 
Majesty’s Government have as yet taken no practical step in advance of the 
same. Meanwhile, however, the International Metric Conference have pro- 
ceeded in their deliberation and in the manufacture of perfect Metric Stan- 
dards ; and your Committee hope that as soon as a copy of the same shall have 
been deposited in this country, the Warden of the Standards will be authorized 
to verify by the same the Metric Weights and Measures in use in the United 
Kingdom, and that by this and other means the difficulties still in the way of 
the voluntary use of the same may beremoved. Your Committee have already 
done their utmost to diffuse information on the subject remitted to them, but 
