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COMMERCIAL] 18 inches; yard of 36 inches,, , , yard, nail, inch, and duodecimal, decimal and binary parts of the inch.

Imperial Measures of Capacity.—Liquid measures from 32 gallons to 1 gallon, quart, pint, pint, gill,  gill,  gill. Dry measures of bushel, bushel, peck, gallon, quart, pint,  pint.

Apothecaries’ Measures.—40 fluid ounces to fl. oz., 16 fluid drachms to fl. dr., 60 minims to 1 minim.

Avoirdupois Weights.—Cental (100 ℔), 56 ℔ ( cwt.), 28 ℔, 14 ℔ (stone), 7, 4., 2, 1 ℔; 8, 4, 2, 1, ounce (8 drams); 4, 2, 1,  drams.

Troy Weights.—The ounce (480 gr.) and multiples and decimal parts of the ounce troy from 500 ounces to 0·001 oz.

Apothecaries’ Weights.—10 oz. to 1 oz. (480 gr.); 4 drachms to oz.; 2, 1 drachms; 2 scruples to scruple; and 6 grains to grain.

Pennyweights.— 20 dwt. (480 grains), 10, 5, 3, 2, 1 dwts.

Grain Weights.—4000, 2000, 1000 gr. (making 7000 gr. or 1 ℔), 500 to 0·01 gr.

2. The international trade metric weights and measures 1897) handled in shops, &c., of which there are also Board of Trade standards, are set out as follows:—

Length.—Decametre or 10 metres; double metre; metre or 1000 millimetres; decimetre or 0·1 metre; centimetre or 0·001 metre; millimetre.

Capacity. 20 litres; 10 litres or decalitre; 5, 2, 1, 0·5, 0·2, 0·1 (decilitre); 0·05, 0·02, 0·01 (centilitre); 0·005, 0·002, 0·001 (millilitre) litres.

Cubic Measures.—1000 (litre), 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 cubic centimetres, 1 c.c. or 1000 cubic millimetres.

Weights.—20, 10, 5, 2, 1 kilograms; 500 to 1 gramme; 5 to 1 decigram; 5 to 1 centigram; 5 to 1 milligram. (Series 5, 21, 2, 1, i.e. with a duplicate weight of “2.”)

3. Equivalents.—The metric equivalents of the units of the metric system in terms of the imperial system, as recalculated in 1897, are as follows:—

