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THE adoption of the metric system by the United States seems to have received a notable impulse during the present week by the action of the Committee of Congress, which has reported in favour of its use by the United States Government in all its affairs except the completion of land surveys now in progress, on and after July 1, 1898, and its general use throughout the country on the first day of the twentieth century, January 1, 1901. The report is the outcome of a movement very early in this Session of Congress.
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Notes. Nature 53, 517–519 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053517a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/053517a0
