Paper, 'An account of the comparison of various British standards of linear measure' by Capt Henry Kater Subject: Metrology Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of the comparison of various British standards of linear measure'. Read 18 January 1821. 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. 3 August 1820