700 
ME. AIET’S ACCOE^sT OF THE COXSTEECTIOX OF 
Line or Distance between the Centres of the said Gold Plugs or Pins in the said Bronze 
Bar (the Bronze being at the Temperature of Sixty-two Degrees by Faheexheit’s Ther- 
mometer) shall be and be deemed to be the Imperial Standard Yard. 
“ VII. If at any Time hereafter the said Imperial Standard Yard and Standard Pound 
Avoirdupois respectively, or either of them, be lost, or in any Manner destroyed, defaced, 
or otherwise injured, the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury may cause the same 
to be restored by Reference to or Adoption of any of the Copies so deposited as afore- 
said, or such of them as may remain available for that Purpose.” 
I have now only to give the new nomenclature of the Bars and the temperatmes at 
which they represent the British Yard ; and a statement of them distribution up to the 
present time (1857, April). 
Old Name of Bar. 
New 
Number. 
standard 
Temperature. 
Distribution of Bars. 
Bronze 19 
1 
O 
62-00 1 
National Standard, at the Exchequer, in the custody of the 
Right Honourable the Comptroller of the Exchequer. 
Parliamentary Copy, at the Roy-al Mint. 
Parliamentary Copy, in charge of the Royal Society. 
Parliamentary- Copy, immured in the New Palace, Westminster. 
Parliamentary Copy, at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 
Bronze 20 
2 
61-94 
Bronze 2 
3 
62-10 
Bronze 7 
4 
61-98 
Bronze 10 
5 
62-16 
Bronze 28 
6 
62-00 1 
Retained at the Royal Observatory, as accessible representative 
of the National Standard. 
Bronze 1 
7 
61-78 
To the East India Company. 
To the Government of Russia. 
Bronze 8 
8 
61-82 
Bronze 9 
9 
61-25 
To the Government of Prussia. 
Bronze 4 
10 
61-51 
To the Government of Bavaria. 
Bronze 11 
11 
61-79 
To the Government of the United States of America. 
Bronze 12 
12 
61-80 
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, still disposable. 
To the Government of Austria. 
Bronze 13 
13 
61-86 
Bronze 14 
14 
61-59 
To the Municipality of Edinburgh. 
To the Municipality of Dublin. 
To the Colony of Canada. 
To the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 
To the Colony of New South Wales. 
To the Government of Portugal. 
Bronze 15 
15 
62-31 
Bronze l6 
16 
61-94 
Bronze 17 
17 
62-14 
Bronze 18 
18 
62-26 
Bronze 5 ; 
19 
61-95 
Bronze 3 
20 
62-23 
To the Government of Spain. 
To the Government of France. 
Bronze 21 
21 
61-80 
Bronze 22 
22 
61-75 
To the Government of Belgium. 
To the Government of Holland. 
j Bronze 23 
23 
61-77 
Bronze 24 
24 
61-68 
To the Government of Hanover. 
^ Bronze 25 
25 
61-97 
To the Government of Saxony. 
To the Government of Sweden. 
Bronze 26 
26 
61-47 
Bronze 27 
27 
61-81 
To the Government of Denmark. 
Bronze 6 
28 
61-73 
To the Government of Switzerland. 
Bronze 29 
29 
61-51 
To the Ordnance Map Office. 
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, still disposable. 
To William Simms, Esq. 
To the Government of Sardinia. 
Bronze 30 
30 
61-66 
Bronze 31 
31 
62-04 
Bronze 32 
32 
62-04 
Bronze 33 
33 
61-92 
To the Government of the Papal States. 
To the Government of Naples and Sicily. 
To the Government of Turkey'. 
To the Government of Brazil. 
Bronze 34 
34 
62-03 
Bronze 35 
35 
61-95 
Bronze 36 
36 
62-08 
Bronze 37 
37 
62-07 
To the Colony of Tasmania. 
