Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PRESERVING AND PERFECTING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. FOUNDED NOVEMBER 8, 1879. Charles Latimer. President. Cleveland, O. Luc1AN I. Bisbee, Vice President, Boston, Mass. A. M. Searles, Treasurer, Cleveland, O. Mary B. Sanford, Secretary, Cleveland, O. PUBLISHING COMMITTEE. Charles Latimer, C. E. ) -... J. H. Dow. J. W. Redfield, M. D. H.c.thompson, tutors, fy w Williams. J. A. Bidwell. Mrs. A. M. Searles. Mary B. Sanford. COMMITTEE ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Rev. H. G. Wood, Chairman of Committee, Sharon, Pennsylvania. Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. J. Ralslon Skinner, Cincinnati, Ohio. ]. F. Hilgard, U. S. Coast Survey, Washington, D. C. Prof. N. B. Wood, Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. Alfred Taylor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Samuel Beswicx, C. E., Strathroy, Canada. Jacob M. Clark, C. E., New York. Charles Latimer, C. E., Cleveland, Ohio. Lieutenant C. A. L. Totten, Garden City, Long Island. W. H. Searles, C. E., Cleveland, Ohio. S. F. Gates, M. E., Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. J. K. Hornish, Denver, Colorado. Prof. Stockwell, Cleveland O. Prof. Rogers. Col. Chester. WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS, Printer. 145 and 147 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, Ohio. INTERNATIONAL STANDARD. May. 1885. THE DRUIDS. "Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of Heaven."?Acts vii, 42. Much has been written, and many a controversy waged, about the great stone monuments, temples, cromlechs, cairns, obelisks and tolmens, that stand in Britain and its isles. They are so like in form to some of those that rear their giant masses from the forests of Tartary and the plains of Arabia, to the jungles of Central America, that it is probable they had a...