Gr. J. Stoney — Conversion of British into Metrical Measures. 359 



The very simple numbers in the left-hand column of these tables 

 are sufficient for all mercantile and engineering, and for nearly all 

 scientific purposes ; and if on some rare occasion any person 

 should need to bring his computation into full accordance with 

 Clarke and Miller's determinations, he may do so by making his 

 reductions with the simple numbers, and then applying to his 

 results the corrections indicated in the last column. 



It is very desirable, in the interests of all British subjects who 

 use metric measures, that these remarkably simple numbers shall be 

 legalized for the conversion of imperial and metrical measures into 

 one another, whenever next there is a "Weights and Measures Bill 

 before Parliament. 



Meanwhile, they may be adopted in scientific laboratories. 



SCIEN. PllOC. R.D.S. — VOL. VI., PT. VII. 2 F 



