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with Maury's name, and to meet with references to him 

 where one might least expect any knowledge of his 

 scientific work. For example, in Walter de la Mare's 

 "Memoirs of a Midget" (p. 226), the reader is unexpect- 

 edly confronted with this: "I searched Mrs. Bowater's 

 library for views of the sea, but without much reward. 

 So I read over Mr. Bowater's Captain Maury — on the 

 winds and monsoons and tide-rips and hurricanes, fresh- 

 ened up my Robinson Crusoe, and dreamed of the Angels 

 with the Vials". Another example, almost equally 

 unexpected is to be found in Vicente Blasco Ibanez's 

 "Mare Nostrum" (p. 65). ''He (Ulysses) had learned 

 English", writes Ibanez, "the universal language of the 

 blue dominions, and was refreshing himself with a study 

 of Maury's charts — the sailor's Bible — the patient work 

 of an obscure genius who first snatched from ocean and 

 atmosphere the secret of their laws". 



In recent scientific works, however, such as "The 

 Depths of the Sea" by Sir John Murray and Dr. Johan 

 Hjort, "Science of the Sea" edited by G. Herbert Fowler, 

 and "Founders of Oceanography" by Sir William A. 

 Herdman one is not surprised to find full justification for 

 referring to Maury as "The Pathfinder of the Seas", for 

 marine meteorology, they declare, may be said to date 

 from his time. Not only is this title appropriate in that 

 Maury laid out on his charts the best tracks for voyagers 

 to follow on the Seven Seas, but it is also fitting in a 

 figurative sense for he was indeed a pathfinder in the 

 realm of a new science, — the physical geography of the 

 sea. This phrase was, therefore, rightly chosen to be 

 placed on the memorial tablet in Goshen Pass as well as 

 on the one at Franklin, Tennessee, and it is to be promi- 

 nently inscribed on the monument soon to be erected to 



