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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 February 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/468, f.204
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Please send comments on the first draft of the Standards Commission report [see GA's 1853-12-22]; GA wants to prepare a second draft.
Suggests a reference to the need to reduce the variety of strange measures being used in the country [see GA's 1854-2-14]; wants to know who the examiners were at Cambridge University in Dec. 1853.
Doubts that proscribing certain weight usages will be effective, unless the users feel a need to change [see JH's 1854-2-14]
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