Paper, 'On the length of the French metre estimated in parts of the English standard' by Capt Henry Kater Subject: Mathematics / Measurement Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the length of the French mètre estimated in parts of the English standard'. Written by Kater in London. Read 5 February 1818. Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 2, 1833. November 1817