The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-31

| the Sea-" in shortening the voyages of
vessels, and when We have cause to
believe that hundreds, perhaps, thou
sands of lives have been saved, among
among those "Who go down to the
sea in ships surely all should honor
his name and revere his memory as
one of earth's greatest and noblest
| benefactorS-one of
''The choice and master spirits of this
age"
In our land-in the North, where
even to this day the South is perse-
cuted by vindictive and small bore
politicians, who would rather rule in
hell than serve in heaven" where for
many years they had reared a scien-
tifc shibboleth, which spells loyal
ty' to the Union during the late war,
and even to 1904-nearly forty years
! since peace was declared, the name of
Maury is rarely mentioned and but
| little honored, If at all. / do not
know when l have met with his name
| in any book or monthly or newspaper
! in that section so treacherous to Con-
| sttutional law and the conservation
of organic civil liberty.
1t will be known to men who have
| knowledge concerning meteorological
| v
was the originator of the system. By
referring to the Preface to his Chart
| of the Sea'-his materly Physical
Geography of the SeaS'-you Will ma
| the proof of this statement His ideas
were appropriated, and since then
| other men strut around tricked out
| in the splendid plumage furnished by
| the immortal Southron. / remember
that about 1877 the we'll edited Nor
I'LL L o1,ly ha
Commodore Maury. 1t referred to the
international system of meteorological
| observations which had been success
| fully established, in which all the
| leading nations then participated, said
this, which / preserved at the time,
and have but recently met with 1T
after so many yearS-some II:
1.-THE observations of all these ma
! tons are interchanged. In the various
notices of this development of science
which have appeared in the Ameri-
can press, we have seen no reference
to the great originator of the sys-
tenn, Commodore M. F. Maury: but
will do him justice and crown his
we console ourselves that posterity
memory with still more abundant
honors as the author of the internal
tional saystem of observations now at
tracing praise and notice from two
hemispheres."
In .'Zelrs Encyclopedia" you will
find a brief sketch of the eminent
Maury. I quote:
"In 1854, he visited England where
he drew public attention to his inn
portant inquiry into ocean currents.
local winds, etc" II mentions that
both the King of Prussia and the EN-
peror of Austria presented him with
gold medals "as a recognition of his
long and useful labors."
If any man of Northern birth has
ever done SO much for civilization and
science as Matthew Fontaine Maury,
Ii. D., his name has not reached me.
He has certainly done something in
aiding. as the great Lord Bacon pro-
phesied-"Science to erect the hum
dred-aisled temple" Let the true,
manly, just men and women of our
dear Southland ever cherish his mem
DRY and guard his discoveries and
contributions to science. / say this,
who is possibly one of the most I'M
scientific of men. 1t was Commo-
dore Maury, as l have before men
toned in The News and Observer.
who was so greatly impressed with
his, former assistant in the National
Observatory in Washington, about