84 MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY 



His greatness consisted in his being a man of vision and 

 imagination, and at the same time a man of tremendous 

 industry who was willing to toil endlessly that his 

 theories might be made practical realities. This aim of 

 unselfish service to humanity was displayed in all his 

 researches in the science of the sea, from which came the 

 works upon which his claim to fame chiefly rests. These 

 were "The Wind and Current Charts", "SaiUng Direc- 

 tions", and "The Physical Geography of the Sea". 

 That such a claim is no idle one is borne out by the 

 •works themselves as well as by their influence upon all 

 succeeding marine research, and it was the realization 

 of this fact that led the Secretary of the Navy recently 

 to give to the oceanographic research now being planned 

 the name "Maury United States Naval Oceanographic 

 Research". 



