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 In a learned notice of "Measures, Weights. and Money" by Col. Paisley, Royal Engineer, F. R. s. &c; just pulp lished in London, the author pays the fol- lowing tribute to our distinguished fellow citizen, JOIN c. ADAMS

 ssI cannot, however, pass over the labors of former writers, without acknowledging in particular, the benefit which have de- rived, whilst investigating the historlal part of my subject, from book printed at Washington in 1921, as an official Report upon Weights and Measures, made by a distinguished American statesman, Mir. John Quincy Adams, to the Senate of the United States, of which he was afterwards President. This author has thrown more light into the history of cur Old English Weights and Measures than all the former writers upon the same subject and his view of historical facts, even when occa- sionally in opposition to the Reports oi our own Parliamentary Committees, appear to me to be the most correct. For my own part,sI confess that do moi think thai could have seen my way into the history of English Weights and Measures, in the feudal ages, without his guidance"