BY BARNARD SMITH, Μ.Α. " RECTOR OF GLASTON, RUTLAND, LATE FELLOW AND SENIOR BURSAR OF ST PETER'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE THIS Edition, which is printed from the stereotype plates, has been carefully revised. If any gentleman, who may happen to meet with errors, will kindly communicate them to the Publishers, he will confer a great obligation on the Author. ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1865 OF BARNARD SMITH'S ARITHMETIC FOR SCHOOLS. : AN Act of Parliament having been passed last Session, legalizing the use of the Metric System of Weights and Measures, the Author has deemed it advisable to publish a Companion to his Arithmetic for Schools, now in the Press, containing, besides other new matter, the Metric System, and its application, the Money Tables of the Principal States of Europe, America, and India, and their application, Mental Arithmetic, Logarithms, the application of Arithmetic to Geometry. GLASTON RECTORY, January 24, 1865. |