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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Ellis
Date:
5 January 1854
Source of text:
BL add MS 65155, f.111
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
No summary available.
Comments on various kinds of scales for measuring distances.
Analysis of quantities of coins in circulation. Explains ways in which gold and silver are diverted from coins to other purposes.
Reports total coinage from 1814 to 1853 and silver coinage from 1801 to 1815. Gives reasons why gold coins in circulation 'fall far short' of those minted. History of copper coinage since 1790.
Would he look at the accompanying work by O. P. A. P. Dufrénoy. Feels that Dufrénoy would advocate only that which was right.