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THE LAST CRUISE OF THE CARNEGIE 



Later on that morning we paid our first visit to the Deutsche 

 Seewarte, a combined hydrographic and meteorological institu- 

 tion, proudly situated on a hill overlooking Hamburg harbor. 

 This organization is justly famous for its progressive and meticu- 

 lous research into problems of marine and aerial navigation. 



With one accord the members of the Seewarte staff shook our 

 hands in the heartiest manner, as "fellow countrymen of Matthew 

 Fontaine Maury"! It must be admitted that some of us were 



The Carnegie Party at the Hagenbeck Zoo, Hamburg 



In the front row are Dr. and Mrs. Sverdrup, the superintendent of the park, and Dr. 

 Burath of the Seewarte. 



mystified at first. As we came in we had noticed a bust promi- 

 nently displayed at the entrance to the building, and this was 

 pointed out to us as Maury's statue. It only goes to show how 

 a prophet is without honor in his own country. Had not Maury 

 created with his own hands the modern science of marine meteor- 

 ology.^ Had he not made the first modern bathy metric charts .^^ 

 Had he not developed the electrically controlled submarine-mine 

 as a defensive weapon in warfare.'^ 



The time was too short to see more than the magnetic and 

 oceanographic divisions of the institution, because a tour of the 



