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".

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rathbone, Theodore William, 1832-1890, author.

Series:

Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890.

Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coinage--Great Britain--History.

Coinage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 1 unnumberd page, 4-107 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : James Ridgway, 1854.

Notes:

Includes: Postscript.

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] E.854.

Local Notes:

Presented by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, 1903.

Scanned copy imperfect: this copy marked up in manuscript in the margins.

OCLC:

649366708

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