What is the best unit of length?
Subtitle: An inquiry, addressed to the International Association for Obtaining a Uniform Decimal System of Measures, Weights, and Coins; with answers from the British branch of the Association, shewing that the best unit of length is the metre.
Contributors: International Association for Obtaining a Uniform Decimal System of Measures, Weights, and Coins.
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Published: 1858
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Metric system
Other titles: Report on the unit of length
Notes: "Report on the unit of length, presented by the Council to the Second Annual General Meeting, held February 25th, 1858, and adopted unanimously": p. [vii]-xii.

Includes bibliographical references.