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which had hitherto been concealed in
the unknown records of the sea voy
ages. Combined and compared, as has
been done by Lieut. Maury, they prove
to be of great importance and promise
to elicit information of the highest in
terest to the practical navigator and
to men of science. We are yet ignor
ant, to a certain extent, of the general
laws which regulate the great currents
of the ocean. While also we are ac
quainted with the limits and directions
of the most conspicuous general winds,
as trade winds and monsoons, we have
still much to learn concerning the
places of meeting of these winds, with
each other. We have again to be still
further instructed as to the nature of
meteoric storms by which great de
struction is caused upon the sea.
Thermometrical navigation requires
still to be very much improved before
we can reap the full benefit which the
use of this simple instrument, the
thermometer, is destined to afford to
the seamen.
“To these several branches of nauti
cal knowledge the researches of Lieut.
Maury have already made valuable
additions, as we learn from the com
munication submitted to the commit
tee.
"Every effort to increase the safety
of navigation, and facilitate the busi
ness of the sea, must command our
warmest sympathies. The success that
has hitherto attended the efforts of
Lieut. Maury, induces the committee
to urge upon the government the great
importance of continuing these inves
tigations. The association can only
lend the influence of its opinion and
the encouragement of its sincere com
mendation. But it i3 in the power of
the general government, by the use of
vessels, and by other means, to furnish
material assistance, and to afford sub
stantial proof of Its approbation of
these researches, and the discoveries
to which they have now led, and to
which they will conduct hereafter. The
idea that suggested them, and the plan
on which they are based, are entirely
original with Lieut. Maury. By his
zealous exertions he has enlisted the
interest and voluntary service of a
large corps of observers, seamen and
navigators, who have shared in his
enthusiasm, and are now, under his
direction, daily contributing to in
crease the securities of commerce, to
develop the laws of our globe, and
thus to advance the cause of human
knowledge and improvement.
“The committee respectfully sub
mits thi3 report, with an earnest rec
ommendation that the association give
to Lieut. Maury their cordial co-opera
tion and support, and that a copy of
this paper be transmitted to the honor
able Secretary of the Navy, and to the
ifyval Committees of the Senate and
t^p House of Representatives.”
"t'his report and the interesting dis-
cutsion which followed in its intro
duction, brought the whole matter of
Mabry’s important # work to the atten
tion of the Washington government,
and a general maritime conference of
the world was invited by the United
States to meet in Brussels in 1853, and
Lieut. Iflaury was sent to represent the
United States. He recommended a
form of abstract log to be kept on
board of all vessels owned by the na
tions, and reports to be made to him
as fast as the data could be gathered.
From this material Maury charted the
currents of the oceans and these
charts were supplied the vessels car
rying the commerce of the world. In
1856 he published his great work, “The
Physical Geography of the Sea,” which
was translated in many languages for
the use of all mariners. For this work
Maury received three medals from
England, France, Holland, Russia,
Norway, Austria, Prussia, Denmark,
Belgium, Portugal, Sweden, Sardinia,
and Bremen. France also made him a
member of the Legion of Honor and
Humboldt declared that he was the
founder of a new and important
science.
As a result of this work of Maury’s,
which was so cordially endorsed by
the American Association at Charles
ton, the United States Weather Bureau
had its initiation and impulse. The
observation of the weather, both on
the land and on the sea, was made
more systematic, and soon became the
business of the governments of the
world. To Maury must be given the
credit for all this tremendous influence
and power for good to the people now
emanating from the National Weather
Bureau. How many girls and boys in
South Carolina know who Lieut. M. F.
Maury is? How little is seen about
him in the histories taught in our
schools and colleges this day, and yet
he was one of the most distingushed
men among all the people of the
United States, not even excepting the
great statesmen; for his work has
made possible the subduing of the
mighty oceans, and bringing the na
tions of the earth to close neighbors.
Lieut. M. F. Maury did not stand
alone as the only Southern scientific
and literary man in his day, but he
had a distinguished company of men
and women who made literature richer
because they lived. The contributions
made to science by Southern men
stand out prominently in the annals
recording the progress of science in
America during the past one hundred
years. The South may be well proud
of such a record. The list of names
is a long one and can be easily found
and read, if our teachers would only
feel the importance of informing
themselves and making the boys and
girls under their tutorage learn of
the work accomplished by these great
Southern writers and thinkers. The
youths in our Southern institutions
should be told of these matters, not
to instill sectionalism, but to make
them have proper pride in their na
tive land, because the South has con
tributed her share, and a large one
at that, to the building of this great
nation. In these latters days we learn
that Jamestown, Va., was the place
where the first settlers landed in this
country, yet in my boy hood studies
of history I was informed that at
Plymouth Rock, Mass., this auspicious,
event took place. I was also taught
that the battles of the Revolution were
mostly fought around Bunker Hill.
But accurate history has also correct
ed this fallacy, and I now know that
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