Author:Henry Williams Chisholm

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Henry Williams Chisholm
(c. 1809 – 1901)

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British civil servant; Chief clerk of the British Exchequer and Warden of the Standards for the British Board of Trade, succeeded by H.J. Chaney; father of Hugh Chisholm and Grace Chisholm Young.

Works

Second Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Exchequer (Now Board of Trade) Standards: On the Question of the Introduction of the Metric System of Weights and Measures into the United Kingdom (1869) (external scan)
Third Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Exchequer (Now Board of Trade) Standards: On the Abolition of Troy Weight (1870) (external scan) (external scan)
Fourth Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Exchequer (Now Board of Trade) Standards: On the Inspection of Weights and Measures, &c. (1870) (external scan)
Fifth Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Condition of the Exchequer (Now Board of Trade) Standards: On the Business of the Standards Department, and the Condition of the Official Standards and Apparatus (1871) (external scan)
General Index to the Reports of the Standards Commission (Reports I. to V.) (1872) (external scan)
Sixth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1872) (external scan)
Seventh Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1873) (external scan)
A Report to the Board of Trade upon the Formation and Proceedings of the International Metric Commission at Paris, 1869--1872 (1873) (external scan)
"The International Metric Convention" (1873) in Nature, Vol. VII, pp. 197–8.
Eighth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1874)
Ninth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1875) (external scan)
Tenth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department (1876) (external scan)
On the Science of Weighing and Measuring and Standards of Measures and Weight (1877) (external scan)
Eleventh Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1877)
Twelfth Annual Report of the Warden of the Standards on the Proceedings and Business of the Standard Weights and Measures Department of the Board of Trade (1878)
Various letters and testimony before British Parliamentary commissions

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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