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From:
Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 November 1889
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 116-117
Summary:
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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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Informing him of a projected change in the scale of weights to be used in the new British Pharmacopaeia. Would like JH's opinion on this.
Is sending a copy of HA's Harveian Oration for JH's perusal.
Discusses standards of weight and measure, especially the idea of a proposed unit called the 'Medical Grain.' JH strongly opposes this.