_Standard of Weights and Measures._--I would gladly learn something of the
system of weights and measures in other countries, and particularly whether
in England and America there exists for this object any government
inspection; and if so, how this is executed? A list of works on this
subject would be most welcome. I am acquainted only with the works of
Ravon, _Fabrication des Poids et Mesures_, Paris, 1843, and of Tarbe,
_Poids, Mesures et Verification_, both found in the _Encyclopedie Roret_;
and the _Vollstaendige Darstellung_ {341} _des Masz- and Gewicht-Systems in
Grossherzogthum Hessen_, by F. W. Grimm, Darmstadt, 1840.--From the
_Navorscher_.
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_Parish Clerks' Company._--
"In making searches in registers of parishes within the bills of
mortality, a facility is afforded by the company of parish clerks; by
paying a fee of about two guineas, a circular is sent to all the parish
clerks, with the particulars of information required: the registers are
accordingly searched, and the result communicated to the clerk of the
company."
The above I give from Burn's _History of Parish Registers_, p. 217. note,
published in 1829. Is this the case at present and if so, what is the
direction of the clerk of the Company? I wish this system existed in
Oxford.