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Henry Williams Chisholm
(c. 1809 – 1901)
 

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

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  • 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


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