. The Pharmaceutical era . decimal systemfounded on the English foot, but the French systembecame obligatory in 1877. Denmark was metric acentury ago, Portugal employs the system, In Spainthe metre is everywhere known, although the old meas-ures are still tolerated. Elastem I^arope. Germany having adopted the metre, its use quicklyspread eastward. Austria declared the system legal in 1873, and obligatory in 1876; Hungary followed fouryears later, while the Czars ukase, authorizing theuse of metric weights and measures for customsdeclarations, dates from 1870. Thus surrounded, theBalkan Peninsu
. The Pharmaceutical era . decimal systemfounded on the English foot, but the French systembecame obligatory in 1877. Denmark was metric acentury ago, Portugal employs the system, In Spainthe metre is everywhere known, although the old meas-ures are still tolerated. Elastem I^arope. Germany having adopted the metre, its use quicklyspread eastward. Austria declared the system legal in 1873, and obligatory in 1876; Hungary followed fouryears later, while the Czars ukase, authorizing theuse of metric weights and measures for customsdeclarations, dates from 1870. Thus surrounded, theBalkan Peninsula must necessarily fall into , with the exception of Roumania, where thesystem Is obligatory since 1861—^these countries are some-what behind hand in civilization. Servia declared thesystem obligatory in 1880, Montenegro In BulgariaofBclally recognizes it, but it is little used. Turkey is sup-posed to have ofBclally decreed the metre In 1870, but thelaw of 1882, applying the name of the old Turkish meas-. The franc, weighing 5 grams, and its equivalents areused in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy. , Spain and Switzerland, Tunis and the South Ajnerican States have a coin of similar nomi-nal value. Russia and Austria coin 20 franc gold piecesthat pass In France. But the German mark, like theEnglish shilling, represents the quarter, and not the one-fifth of the United States dollar. DEI,. (1749-1822). iires to the units of the new system has, it appears,produced a delightful state of uncertainty thoroughlyworthy of the Ottoman Empire. Greece is steadilyadopting the metre in Sweden the system is generallyobligatory since 1889. and in Norway it Is In vigor since1882. I2ng;laii<l and Russiaare, therefore, the only important countries In Europewhere the metre is not generally used. But the BritishParliament has just passed an act which renders thesystem legal, though not compulsory; and Russia, besidesadmitting customs declarations
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