246 MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY 



rial. For description of this monument please see foot- 

 note, end of chapter, page 251. 



A long list of minor memorials to Maury have ap- 

 peared from time to time. One of the oldest is his 

 portrait in fresco on the ceiling of the Library of the 

 State Capitol of Tennessee in Nashville, which was 

 painted in 1857. His name, among six or seven others, 

 adorns the exterior of the building of the Seaman's 

 Institute, overlooking the Elbe, in Hamburg, Germany; 

 while the University of Virginia has his name inscribed 

 on the frieze of its new Rotunda. There are a number 

 of other memorials in Maury's native state. In Lexing- 

 ton at the Virginia Military Institute there is a Maury- 

 Brooke Hall in which the physical sciences are taught. 

 In Richmond, the house in which he invented the electric 

 mine has been marked, and in South Richmond a street, 

 a cemetery, and an elementary school all bear his name. 

 Norfolk has a Matthew Fontaine Maury High School; 

 while Fredericksburg has its Maury Hotel, and has 

 marked the house where he resided for several years. 

 In Goshen Pass, a tablet in Maury's honor was unveiled 

 on June 9, 1923. The bronze tablet is attached to a 

 granite shaft about eight feet tall, at the base of which 

 is to be placed an anchor, weighing 1500 pounds, and 90 

 feet of chain, of a type used in Maury's time and donated 

 by the Virginia Pilot Association of Norfolk. This 

 memorial, which was designed and constructed by the 

 sculptor Guiseppe Moretti, was authorized by the 

 Legislature of Virginia. In the state of his adoption, 

 there is only one recent memorial, a tablet in his honor, 

 placed on the walls of the Public School Building in 

 Franklin, Tennessee, by the Old Glory Chapter of the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution. 



