470 Letter from B. A. Gould. 
The Meteorological office is quietly extending its influence and 
activity throughout the country. It is not easy to secure the gra- 
tuitous codperation of competent and conscientious observers, 
nor to secure their reception of instruments in good condition ; yet 
the success has thus far been all that I could have presumed to 
hope; and I am already rapidly accumulating data, which will 
disclose the heretofore unknown climatic and atmospheric rela- 
tions of this vast country. ready some dozen or more stations 
forei old coins to be det 1h digeoe 
annually published by the Minister of Finance. That this unit 1s 
not already law is due solely to disagreement between the tw 
houses on other points contained in the same bill; but the delay 
is only temporary. 
Now that Japan and the Argentine Republic have adopted a 
metric basis for their monetary unit,—the only basis on which we 
can aa for any 2 apne to international mnibeston oe 
e of less d 
of mint tolerance), and it would seem as though by the unite 
action of our men of science, this desirable change might 
brations, as it would be a most efficient step toward what 
French term “ the solidarity of nations.” 
