Abstract
As the metric system of weights and measures has now been exclusively adopted by nearly every European country.it is of some interest in connexion with proposals for its adoption by other countries to ascertain, if possible, to what extent its imposition upon the various peoples has hitherto proved effective. The most obvious means of obtaining information on this matter would appear to be the study of the periodical reports and other publications of the respective Weights and Measures Departments. Disdaining, no doubt, such armchair methods, Prof. Kennelly set himself the task of collecting evidence as to the persistence of pre-metric vestiges by personal observation and inquiry in all the principal countries concerned. This he accomplished under the auspices of the Bureau of International Research, during a sabbatical leave of absence granted him by Harvard University from July 1926 until September 1927.
Vestiges of Pre-Metric Weights and Measures persisting in Metric-System Europe, 1926–1927.
By Prof. Arthur E. Kennelly. Pp. xiii + 189. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1928.) 2.50 dollars.
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M., W. [Book Reviews]. Nature 123, 756 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123756a0
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