...difficult to decide whether the phenomenon was electrical or merely mechanical. A REPORT upon a Bill for the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the United States was recently submitted to the US House of Representatives by the Committee on Coinage,...

...METBIC STBTEM. IN the year 1862, a Committee of the House of Commons reported unanimously in favour of the adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures. In the year 1864, an Act of Parliament, 27 & 28 Victoria, c. 117, was passed, which rendered permissive the...

...patient. THE METRIC SYSTEM AND THE SEVENTH DECENNIAL REVISION OF THE USP* BY HM WHELPLEY, MD, PH.G. Among the new features of the revised work will be the adoption of the metric system of i weights and measures in the manufacture of preparations. The system of " parts " in the previous...

...and pharmacy and to the medical and pharmaceutical colleges of the United States and Canada, urging the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the forthcoming edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia. It may be expedient for the Pharmacopceial...

...issued. It is a standard work on the subjects treated, a fair index of which appears in the title. The adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the Pharmacopoeia, to the exclusion of all other systems, renders a thorough knowledge of that system almost...

...precludes the necessity of placing the graduate upon the counter to get the contents thereof on a level. The adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the new United States Pharmacopoeia makes it necessary for every pharmacist to possess measures graduated...

...after their departure from Cuba. A BILL before the National House of Representatives, providing for the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the various departments of the United States Government, was passed last week, but later reconsidered and...

...following vote was passed: "Resolved, That this Society recommends the passage of a bill providing for the adoption of the Metric System of Weights and Measures in the United States." It was voted that the thanks of the Society be tendered to the Engineers' Society of...

...which its importance demands, and I believe it to be entirely feasible for you to devise means by which the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the United States could be hastened without injury or detriment to any of our commercial or industrial...

...much attention to the fact that a bill has been lately introduced in the United States Congress for the adoption of the metric system of weights and measures in the United States. This system has been already legalised in America, so that anyone is at liberty to use...