Excerpt from The School of Mines Quarterly, Vol. 23: A Journal of Applied Science; November 1901, to July, 1902 The system has now been in operation a century in our country. Since its establishment it has been adopted successively by the greater part of the civilized countries. We can affirm to-day that the near future it will be used universally throughout the entire world. Its success is due to the fact that the fundamental units are taken from nature. Nothing in their definition recalls the country which has instituted it. France could, by good fight, celebrate the centennial Of its foundation. The Bureau Of Longitudes has had in mind such a commemoration. And to accomplish this in part. It has decided that an historical notice Of the institution Of the metric system should appear in T he Annuaire Of 1900 as a new homage rendered to the illustrious scientific men who co'operated in its establishment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.