Excerpt from Address on the Metric System of Weights and Measures: Delivered Before the Commercial Club of Boston, February 18, 1888, at Its 184th Regular MeetingTrades, and at the observatory. These have been since then the stand ards for the world, and with them have been minutely compared the standards constructed for the use of other countries.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.