three years later, he was reinstated with the advanced rank of 

 Commander, as of the date of his retirement. 



Meantime, the Government had approved Maury's purpose 

 of keeping the Nation to the front in Nautical Science. The 

 Secretary of the Navy was directed by Congress to detail suitable 

 vessels to test the new routes and to perfect the discoveries made 

 by Maury. From time to time these vessels, with capable offi- 

 cers, were dispatched on this service. Among these, on the brig 

 Dolphin, Lieutenant Berryman was employed on special service 

 connected with the Hydrographic Office. His soundings with 

 Brooke's deep-sea sounding apparatus established, beyond a doubt, 

 the practicability of laying a submarine telegraphic cable between 

 Newfoundland and Ireland. 



On this subject, there are on file in the National Observatory 

 hundreds of letters to officials, scientists and business men, prov- 

 ing Maury's part in this great enterprise, none more briefly con- 

 vincing than the generous pronouncement by Cyrus W. Field. 

 What did he say at that dinner in New York celebrating the rt 

 transmission of the first message *& cable ? When asked to give && 

 an account of the work he arose and replied : "I am a man of few 

 words. Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, 

 and I did the work/' 



Brains, Money, Work! and the greatest of these is no, let 

 us make no invidious comparisons. Truly, in classical American 

 slang, "Money talks," but Cyrus W. Field, the Worker, knew 

 much about relative values ; he sandwiches Money between Brains 

 and Work to give it the rich flavor of Service! What would 

 Maury have us do to keep alive the beneficent ferment of his 

 Brain? We may learn only by an open-minded study of his life, 

 as revealed in letters to family, friends and officials ; they are un- 

 conscious self-revelations the portrayal of Maury by Maury! 

 His greatness and goodness, his tenderness and fortitude, his pa- 

 triotism and faith are all there ! Would that they were accessible 

 to the youth of the world, which he served so long and so well ! 



The limit of this sketch permits but a brief reference to his 

 address delivered in June, 1855, before the Washington and the 

 Jefferson Literary Societies of the University of Virginia; start- 

 lingly prophetic was it of that fratricidal conflict which, six years 



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