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THE President of the Royal Society, with Sir John Evans, and the following members of the Council—Dr. A. A. Common, Mr. W. Crookes, Dr. A. R. Forsyth, Prof. H. Lamb, Prof. J. H. Poynting—visited the Standards Department of the Board of Trade on Thursday, the 21st inst., for the purpose of inspecting the new metric standards which have been recently deposited with the Department. The President and Council were received by Sir Courtenay Boyle, K.C.B., the Secretary of the Board of Trade, and Mr. H. J. Chaney, Super-intendent.
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New Metric Standards. Nature 51, 420–421 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/051420a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/051420a0