Comparative statement of the different plans of decimal accounts and coinage, which have been proposed by the witnesses examined before the Committee of the House of Commons and others : paper prepared for the statistical section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at their meeting at Liverpool, Sept. 1854 / by Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq., author of "an examination of the report and evidence of the Committee of the House of Commons, with reference to a simpler, sounder, and more comprehensive mode of proceeding, third edition, with a preface and postscript ; with a compendium of the scheme of pounds, florins, cents, and mils, and the scheme of pounds, tenpennies, and pence, comparatively stated : an abstract of the discussion, and "observations of a merchant" on the statements of the chairman of the committee, Mr. Brown, M.P., and Professor De Morgan, in the "Proceedings of the Decimal Association".

Author/creator Rathbone, Theodore William author.
Format Electronic
PublicationLondon : James Ridgway, 1854.
Description1 online resource (x, 1 unnumberd page, 4-107 pages).
Supplemental ContentGale, Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
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SeriesMaking of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteIncludes: Postscript.
General noteReproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.
General noteShelfmark number: [G.L.] E.854.
General notePresented by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 1903.
General noteScanned copy imperfect: this copy marked up in manuscript in the margins.

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