Excerpt from Metric System, Considered With Reference to Its Introduction Into the United States: Embracing the Reports of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, and the Lecture of Sir John Herschel The mind Of the civilized world, brought into sympathy and close connection by the Wires Of the Telegraph, is now earnestly directed to the question Of uniformity in the language Of business relations; and the Metric System of France is presented as a means Of effecting such uni formity. In May, 1866, the following bill was passed by the Con gress of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.