Note B — Chapter V

Here we beg to state that in all our coming operations, we will use the Centigrade Scale for temperatures without adding C to each number specified, unless a different scale has to be referred to, in which case the distinctive of the scale shall be given in the usual way. This we do because it is the fashion, not because we think it possesses any advantage over any other scale, but rather the contrary. Perhaps we may have something more to say about scales after we have handled the Centigrade a little more than it has been our lot to do hitherto.