WEIGHTS, OMIFonMITy IN CHINA, A pleasant and practical method of arousing interest in the question of a uniform system of messores and weights for China was adopted on Monday in bringing together at " dinner a namber of people for the parpose of a more or less informal diseatsion. The dioner was served at the Astor House Hotel and. a number of those interested in the subject responded to the invitation of Mr. Howard Richards, who bad ganized the proceedings. The objects of the gathering were depicted humorously or instractively about the room and as souvenirs of the occasion exc guest received a usefal steel measure marked according to the metric system and 2 chart giving the legal equiralonts of the various systems of measures and weights and a simple method of conversion of one to another.
At the conclusion of the dinner Mr. Richards stated the parpose of the dinner and introduced Professor F. C.
Cooper of St. John's University, who read the following Paper In view of the rapidly changing conditions in China there is no more fitting moment than the present to bring to the attention of officials, educators, scientific and business men the importance to China of adopting standard system of weights and mes-sares, and for several reasons the best system to adopt is that known as the metric system in which the multiple
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