62. The Egyptian Royal Cubit (c. 4000 B.C.)
732. Guernsey Currency
73. The Great Assyrian or Persian Cubit (c. 700 B.C.)
74Indian Gold Coinage
8The Bereh or Equatorial Land-mile.
754. Decimal Currency
95. The Black Cubit (Ninth Century)
76The Compass Card
10The Medimnos.
77Thermometric Scales
112. The Lesser Alexandrian or Ptolemaïc Talent
78Compound Industrial Units
12The Metretes
791. The Foot-Ells
13The New Roman Pound
802. The Span-Ells
145. The Olympic Talent
81Sweden
156. Greek Coin-weights
82Denmark and Norway
16Measures of Capacity derived from Arabic Linear Measures
83Austria
17The Sources of the English and of the Rhineland Foot
84Italy
181. The English Foot
85Spain
192. The Rhineland Foot
86Portugal
203. The Pán of Marseilles
87Russia
214. The Filiation of the English Foot, of the Rhineland Foot, and of the Marseilles Pan
88Turkey
221. The Yard, the Foot, the Inch
89Egypt
232. Standards of the Linear Measures
90Persia
243. The Hand
91Roumania
254. The Ell
92Greece
26The League
93Tunis, Tripoli, Algeria
271. Introduction
944. The Hashími Cubit
282. Evolution of Geometric Land-measures
95Note of Acknowledgment
293. English Land-measures
961. Teutonic Systems of Weight
304. Feudal Land-Measures
972. East-European Systems of Weight
315. Terms used in Land-measures
98Egypt
326. The Yard and the Verge
99Turkey
337. How the Rod came to be 5-1/2 Yards
100The Libbra and the Rottolo
348. How the Acre came to be 160 Rods
101SUMMARY
359. Customs of Lancaster
1021. The Teutonic System
3610. Seed-measures of Land
103Turkey
37The Recognition of Averdepois Weight
104Italy
38The Dram
1053. Hebrew Weights and Measures of Capacity
393. Scientific and Medicinal Divisions of the Pound
1061. General Remarks
404. The Long Hundredweight
1072. The Nail and the Clove; the Inch and the Ounce
41Wool Weight
108(A) The Carat
42Lead Weight
109The Refiner’s Carat
436. Trade-units of Weight
110(B) The Grain
44Cask Measures
1114. The Tun and the Fother
45The Quart and Pint
112Land-measures
463. Corn Measure
113Measures of Capacity
474. The Quarter and the Chaldron
114Weights
48Heaped Measure
115Measures of Length
49Fluid Measures
116Measures of Distance
507. Medicinal Fluid Measures
117Land-measures
511. The Saxon or Tower Pound
118Weight
52Whence came the Troy Pound?
119Value
53How the Averdepois Pound was of 7000 Grains.
120Measures of Capacity
54The Assize of Bread
121Remarks on the French Measures of Capacity
55The Disappearance of the Troy Pound
122Surface
56The Ton Register
123Solidity
57Linear Measures
124Capacity
58Weights
125Weight
59Measures of Capacity
126Money
602. Ireland
127Temperature
613. Wales
128Metric Measures of Time
62Linear and Land Measures
129How far the French have adopted the Metric System.
63Measures of Capacity
1301. General View of the Imperial System
64Wine-Measures
1312. The Propaganda of the Metric System
65Weights
1323. The Reform of the Metric System
662. South Africa (Cape Colony)
133Envoi
67Weights
