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In the United States Navy there has been considerable 

 recognition of Maury since his death, — particularly in 

 recent years. His name is placed at the top of all the 

 charts issued by the Hydrographic Office, in the following 

 phrase: "Founded upon the researches made and the 

 data collected by Lieutenant M. F. Maury, U. S. Navy". 

 In 1918 a destroyer in the U. S. Navy was called the 

 Maury, and recently the Secretary of the Navy has 

 named the Naval Oceanographic Research in his honor. 

 At the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, the 

 left wing of the Academic Building bears the name of 

 Maury Hall. This was originally the navigation wing 

 of the building, and, according to the Superintendent of 

 the Academy (Captain W. F. Fullam, U. S. Navy, in 

 1915), it was named by his direction ''Maury Hall" 

 because of "Maury's distinguished and world-wide 

 reputation in connection with meteorology and the study 

 of ocean currents, etc." In 1919, the United Daughters 

 of the Confederacy established a prize at the Naval 

 Academy, consisting of a pair of marine binoculars, to 

 be known as the "Maury Prize" and to be awarded 

 annually to that midshipman of the First Class who has 

 shown superior excellence in electrical engineering and 

 physics. A portrait of Maury by E. Sophonisba 

 Hergesheimer was presented to the Naval Academy by 

 the Daughters of the Confederacy, Atlanta Chapter, 

 Georgia Division, and unveiled on November 20, 1923.' 



3 Of the numerous portraits of Maury, those deserving special mention are 

 in Richmond. There is one by N. H. Busey in the Westmoreland Club of that 

 city, another by John A. Elder in the Virginia State Library, and a third of some 

 merit in Battle Abbey, Richmond. In the State Library is also a cast of the 

 fine bust of Maury made by Edward V. Valentine of Richmond in 1869, which 

 is considered by Mrs. Werth to be a very excellent likeness of her father. 

 There is a statue of Maury over the main entrance to the Meteorological 



